Julia.

So it's set. In three weeks, my 19 y/o sister Julia is leaving for a three-month missions trip to the village of Entre Rios, Bolivia. (Her original plans were to be gone for five months with the Youth With A Mission training school/outreach in Santa Cruz, but she changed her mind.) She went on two-week trips to Entre Rios in the summers of 2005 and 2007 with teams from our church, and since then has desperately wanted to go back. This time she'll be going by herself. While she's there, she'll be helping a young woman named Angela (a long-term American missionary in Entre Rios) with her work, which I believe is mainly with the village children. All of us will miss Jules a lot a lot, but this is clearly God's plan for her. Please keep her in your prayers.....that everything goes smoothly before she leaves, that she has safe travel, and that God uses her in amazing ways in Bolivia. This has been something she's been praying about for a while, and everything is now pointing towards her going.

She started a blog for her trip at www.juliaknowles.blogspot.com . She hasn't made posts yet, but put the link in your favorites and check back over the coming months for pictures and updates!

<3, joanna