1 John 3:16-18

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Join Our Team

I just wanted to let everyone know that we know have a link to our support website.  If you haven't already and would like to join our Haiti team by supporting us on a monthly basis, or provide one time payments to help pay for our start up costs, then please do so though the link on the right side of this blog.  We are hoping to move to Haiti within the next year, but the timing will depend upon our being funded.

One of our big upfront costs that we have coming up soon is for our Missionary Training School coming up in September.  It is a 3 week school called SPLICE designed to help our family to prepare for the Mission field in the following areas- Spiritual, Personal, Lifestyle, Interpersonal, Cultural, Endure/Enjoy.  We have several missionary friends who have attended the school and say even years later that it was the best thing they did to prepare for going into the field.  The cost of the school is $6200, and we will need about $4000 to come in by the end of August in order for us to be able to attend. If you would like to help with these costs, you can do so through our support website by making a one time payment. 

Below, I just wanted to share a few photos from my last trip to Haiti that I took in March.  I helped lead a team from Utah to Terrier Rouge in Haiti where we did VBS with the children during their Easter break.  We had an awesome time.  Our small group of 8 had over 400 kids each day.  We were also blessed with the funds to be able to give each child a meal for the days we were serving.  For many of them, this would be their only meal for the day.  Can't wait to be there and be a part of their lives everyday. 





Thursday, March 29, 2012

WE HAVE EXCITING NEWS!!!

We have officially been approved to join Hungry for Life and work on ground with them in Northern Haiti.  WooHoo!!  For those of you who have been following our story, you know this has been a dream of ours for several years so we are absolutely ecstatic.  We will be living there as Strategic Liasisons doing on ground support, administration, team leading, and discipleship training.  We are thrilled at this opportunity and are so humbled to know that God chooses to use simple people like us in such an amazing way.  We will have more information coming soon as well as opportunities for those of you who want to join in our work..  In the mean time, please pray for us.  Pray that the necessary funds and planning would go well so that we can began our move.  Also pray for our family as we embark on this new adventure.  We will be moving to a new culture and will have many challenges in the process.  We also want you to pray that we remain humble servants of God who want HIS name glorified.

This time ahead for us is exciting and a little scary as we step out into the unknown, but I know that God has promised to be with us for when he sent the disciples into the world to make disciples of all nations he reminded them, "And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”  This promise remains true for those of who follow him today as well.  He is our portion and will sustain us.