We have visited well over 20 churches to date. Whenever we receive a phone call from a new pastor, off we go to visit their church. We have been in several mission’s conferences and have shared our ministry with many other churches, we have even sat down with some pastors one-on-one over a cup of coffee. As we appear
PNG Bins
before more and more churches, getting to know more and more Christ-followers, we begin to think more about our purpose and mission in life. We have opportunities to turn to the left or the right, and even when it is not comfortable and seems fruitless we know that this is where our Lord would have us. Before we began this current month long trip, we went through all our belongings and said “do I really need this?” many times. After it was all said and done, we have our suitcase’s in our car and an attic of 4 bins and a handful of boxes that we can call “ours”.
These are our earthly possessions, the things in the attic are not to be seen until we head to PNG (kitchen stuff, decorations to make it feel like home, etc.) and in reality, the house could catch on fire and we could lose our stuff, or our crate could get lost at sea when we head to PNG…who knows? We desperately desire to know God like Elisha and at any moment, burn all of our possessions and follow His leading.
To be like Paul and to be imprisoned and say “I am content”, we believe as Americans we have such a hard time to see God like this because our culture tells us to find our identity in our possessions. Even in our travels we see this; if we do not possess a piece of paper that identifies us with a select school we get cast aside because we do not identify with a person’s ideal. We pray we too do not succumb to our culture, and whatever we do or do not have may we fully surrender to our Lord, even our ideals.
Our Lord has been gracious to us in our travels, we have had the blessing of meeting new people and growing our support team. We see God in the small things; in our travels we drove for over 4 hours and this is what we saw for our fuel gauge in our car (a little less than half a tank in a 4 hour drive!)
Our Gas Tank
Elisha Burning His Plow
God is too good to us, our car is about to encroach 180k on our next drive (we will post a picture), and it is still going strong. With the way we have been traveling it will hit 200k shortly (Lord willing). Our current “actual” support is over 10% praise God! We started at a true 0% back in July and are at 10% now; we see many churches now through January. We are waiting to hear back from several churches for whether they will pick us up for support or not. We need 65% more before we can buy our plane tickets and head to the field. The practical reality is by January we will have been to about 40 churches, and if each one takes us on for support for 1-2% we could leave! It is seriously that simple, would you pray with us that prayer? It is truly that attainable. If you feel God is leading you or your church to partner with us would you please contact us? It was surreal; someone walked up to us and said “imagine, if everyone in this church gave up a $5 Starbucks coffee a month, you could be on the field today”. We both got excited and imagined that possibility. I say that to say this… it is really simple to be a part of and support missions. You just have to make a plan and be committed.
Stoking The Fires 