We arrived back in Michigan at the early part of this month and what an amazing thing to be here, now you would think by the title of this post and that we travel so much that I was speaking about what time zone we might be in, but that is not what I am talking about.
The Blessings from above…
We are now in our 6 month of deputation and God truly has been blessing, but as you know blessings do not come without tests and trials.
We were recently given a trailer from a church in Arizona and they installed a whole new suspension just so we would not have a problem [...]
Well I am on my last day of Pastor’s Training School this is not a normal Pastors Conference but a school. We have class from 8:00am to 5:00pm everyday in a variety of subjects and all of them extremely helpful.
Over the month of January we have been all over the United States, but in a organized manner of course. One thing I say often is, “we want to be wise steward of God’s resources”.
Alot of the posts I do, I generally try to use a catchy title that makes you want to read it. This time though, I decided to use a non-catchy title. HaHa…
It has been a while since any of us kids have posted, but if you read our prayer letters it kind of explains what [...]
In October 2011 we started packing everything we had, well what we did not sell. Everything had to be put into four categories what we were going to sell, what was going to Papua New Guinea with us, what was going to charity and lastly what would go on the road with us in our 200 cubit foot van. (I think it might be that big).
Your typical deputation process may vary in time, it could be as little as 1 year and should not be more than 3 years depending on your field of service and what lessons you and your family may need to learn. We are tested in areas such as faith in God, dependence on God, and even trust in God.
I always used to be frightened of going up to missionary kids when I was younger. Missionary kids were my heroes, along with Pastor’s and evangelists. Going up to a missionary kids was like walking up to a movie star. I know poor comparison , but hopefully you get what I mean. They were important to me. they were somebody’s in my eyes. They still are. I still get a thrill going out to lunch with Pastor’s or getting to know different missionary families. My brother , sister and I still get so excited when a Pastor invites us to go out to lunch with him or to spend time with him and his family. I hope I never get over that. Because Pastor’s , Missionary’s , evangelist’s , These are who we should be having as our role model’s
Before I get to the topic let me start with an update of what has been happening since the last post. There hasn’t really been too much going on, except for Christmas of course. My family and I had a really great Christmas this year.It was a little different, but we all had a great [...]
His look was a look of being perplexed and I know he was thinking, how do you buy things? How do you but food? How do you live? Then all the sudden the words came from his lips, so then how do you get food? Do you hunt for it
We have gotten a couple people asking us where to send Christmas cards or how to get a hold of us since we are always on the move and since we will be in the Midland, Michigan area till January 1st. Here is the address…
Happy Thanksgiving to you all, I know I am a little late in posting this, but Pastor Curry and his family to us to Pensacola, Florida to spend Thanksgiving with his family.
Two Hats is a movie that is about the life of Brad and Deborah Wells. Brother Brad Wells is a veteran missionary in Mt. Hagen Papua New Guinea he is the founder of Bible FM – Christian Radio in Papua New Guinea.
I have seen the trailers to this movie and thought it might be a [...]
We first met this small, but growing church in April of 2011, it was just by chance that Jason had told us we needed to go to (MTS) Missionary Training School through Good Shepherd Baptist Ministries
You know when you are young you make some mistakes and you hope they never survive to be found out?
We honestly didn’t even have time to think we had to act so quickly to remove the now broken trailer from the van. Once we did that and were able to pull everything off to the side of the road we looked back and saw God’s hand in protecting us.
I know what you are thinking… Where is the post for problem #1?
I will be posting that shortly, but it is a longer story than this one and I know your dying to hear how it is going.
Well here we go…
We left Arizona on Sunday afternoon at about 3:00pm to head to Uncle Chris’s house [...]
I arrived at my car for my 40 mile drive home (yes, I commute 40 miles) and turned on the radio to check traffic. Ahhh! Radio my communication to the world for the next 8 hours, 2 of which were spent driving that 40 miles home.
We have been waiting on God’s timing to leave and have been preparing for the last 10 months. Our home should be closing escrow between October 1st and October 15th so now in anticipation for that and due to the fact we do not want to rent storage space we have begun to sell all that we have.
We will teach them about the field and the weather, the struggles and even the blessings that each field has we will encourage them to pray for their missionaries and take up a change offering every week to give to the missionaries at the end of the summer.
So I took the check put it into my pocket and told her we had been praying for that amount for some brochures we needed to order and she smiled and said, “He knew”.
We were picked up at the airport by Pastor Joe Williams and his wife Sister Lisa from Victory Baptist Church in Lodi, Ohio. They are allowing us to stay at the churches missionary housing here at the church which is about 15 minutes from Spencer, Ohio.
