Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Journey Begins!

After wrestling with God for years, we have come to accept that God is calling our family to serve His Church as missionaries.

Through much prayer and conversation, we have accepted a call to serve as Church of God Missionaries to the Netherlands, as part of the Three Worlds team serving in Europe & the Middle East. To say that we are excited about this next chapter in our lives as Christ-Followers would be an understatement.

But all the excitement is tempered by the emotions anyone would feel at this point: Fear, Curiosity, Anxiety, a raw sense of Wonder.

Having lived our lives mostly change-free for the past 7-9 years, we are now faced with change on every level. This July we are welcoming our daughter into our lives, and we will be all about the task of becoming Parents!

We are putting the finishing touches on some projects, and will be hoping to sell our historic home in downtown Anderson.

We will be, once fundraising is complete, leaving the jobs we've held for 8+ years. And most importantly, we'll be moving halfway around the world from our friends and family.

What a leap of faith we are facing. Before any of this move actually happens, we'll need to raise support from congregations and individuals whom we don't necessarily know, to send us to a place we've not yet been, to minister to a people we do not know.

And yet, feeling that this is God's leading in our lives, we boldly press forward, walking to the tune of the old hymn "I have decided to Follow Jesus."