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Ray Langan and his wife Jean have faced many tests to their Christian faith during their life. Perhaps one of the
biggest tests was when Ray awoke one morning in 1968 feeling certain the Lord wanted them to go to New
Zealand. He had no other explanation as to why he felt this way.

"I just knew the Lord wanted us to go," explained Ray.

"I wasn't as keen on going," admitted Jean, who had more than one reservation about uprooting her family to
start a new life. They had three young children to consider. "No way did I want to go. I prayed about it and
told God if He wanted us to go there, He was going to have to give me some kind of sign."

Later she accidentally dropped her Bible and when she picked it up she read the pages where it had opened.

"It was the part where it says a man should leave his family and cleave to his spouse," Jean explained. "So I
knew God was telling me ‘yes', He wanted us to go to New Zealand."

Of course the trip wasn't as easy as wanting and doing. There was a lot to prepare for such a trip. A trip that
wasn't going to be just a vacation, because they knew they couldn't afford that. They had to go there to live.