Hey friends and family! We are so excited to get our blog back up and running. We hope and pray that you are all doing well. I just wanted to give you a little update on what's up and coming!
1st.. Here is a picture of Ezra, she is now 16 months old. It's so crazy how fast the time goes..
She is such a character! And we are so crazy about her! We are looking forward to taking her on our adventures and we hope to show her a life that shows her a genuine love walk with the Lord!
I am now a stay at home mom, and I love it! Learning how to be a more organized and scheduled person has taken some time for me, but I know it helps me to be more productive. Along with it, I have learned how to coupon and make more home cooking! So I'm working on becoming a Proverbs 31 wife for Josh!=) After moving several times in the past year its nice to finally know that we are settled, until we leave for Cambodia, of course! I truly believe the Lord has been having us practice being flexible and changeable over this past year, but it has been so good. It's only getting us more prepared for the mission field!
Josh has been the worship director since June now, and he has been growing so much in walking out his leadership! I'm so proud of the man he is, and the man he is becoming. This job truly brings him life and it is such a blessing! He officially started teaching for the Center of Global Action Discipleship School of Ministry (CGA) that AIM is now holding this in October. He teaches the Worship Tract and currently has 12 students. He calls them his 12 disciples!=)
Josh and I together are house parents for 8 wonderful women. Each of these ladies are students in CGA. It's such a cool community to live in! We have community meals, worship nights, prayer and fun and games! It's really awesome! We are learning more about the importance of having a healthy community that spurs one another on in the Lord!
Josh and I are also now over all of Cambodia for AIM. So any missionary that wants to go to Cambodia through AIM is sent to us! We are so humbled and excited to be able to be involved this way! We currently have three missionaries that have just gone through a week of training with us here in GA and are currently in Guatemala for a month of training. (Guatemala has an AIM base there that does long- term training.) So we went with them for a week to launch them and now they will be ready to hit the field in Cambodia once they get back in December! Guatemala is SO beautiful…
It was so cool going with them for a week and getting a "practice round" with Ezra.. She LOVED it!
We will also be going with them to launch them in Cambodia and this will allow us to get some time on the field for further prep/planning for our move to Cambodia (Hopefully by JUNE!)
As for an update on us getting on the field in Cambodia.. For a while we kept feeling like the Lord was closing the doors. We knew He had placed a call on our hearts, but things just didn't seem to be working out. Our time frame seemed to keep looking farther and father away but we learned to trust that HIS timing is best. I think once we realized that Cambodia wasn't the answer He was willing to open those doors back up! And the Lord is so good in that He has SO much more for us then we could ever IMAGINE! Now, not only are we going to help the Children's home, but AIM has also asked us to help them set up an AIM base there in Phnom Penh! The beautiful thing about this is that it will allow us to have community with a team with a long term mindset, but also pour into whichever ministries the Lord has placed on each persons heart. So for us it would be the Children's home, while for others it could be the homeless, or a ministry for women, etc! While doing this we hope it will also open up relationships with these different ministries so we could funnel in short terms teams when they come our way! This will give them more hands and feet and man power, and then more contacts and relationships for AIM to send their short term teams to. We hope that as we launch our first few missionaries the Lord gives us more of an idea as to how this will look! So please be praying for vision and steps in that direction for us! We will keep you posted!
We love you guys! God bless
