Big News!

This is really an exciting time for us. We will soon be applying with Heart 2 Heart International Ministries to be full time missionaries to orphaned children in Romania! You probably guessed that our two trips to Romania had tremendous impacts on our lives. After our first trip we felt we needed to go back for a longer time, which happened when we went to camp. Now after camp we have increasingly heard God's call to go minister to these kids full time. We were actually praying about this before we went to camp and were hoping that we would get our answer there.

During camp we were a little confused, we really enjoyed it but it was really hard too and we doubted that we could do this full time. But we learned that we need to rely on God and not ourselves in order to be used by him. When we came back from camp we stepped up our prayers and asked many people to pray for us that we would be able to discern what God wanted us to do. We have been able to focus on the tremendous good that happened at camp when God used us to touch the lives of these kids. Our desire to go has only increased since leaving and we have felt much affirmation from our family, friends, church, and H2H staff. God has called us to be love to these kids who don't often get to experience love. We want Him to use us wherever He wants, so we are going ahead trying to be very flexible and open to his voice.

So now we will start the process. We will apply and once our application is approved we will start planning and support raising. We are thinking that we will sell just about everything we own, like our house, cars, furniture, and whatever else we can't take with us. We'll have to raise support for our ministry, which we will have more details about later. We can't thank enough those who supported us on our previous trips, it is great to have so many people behind us.

This is an incredible step of faith for us, and we are trusting that if this is God's will He will make it happen. We are surrendering our lives fully to him and are stepping out in obedience to Him. It is all for his glory, and not of ourselves, because it's all about Him.