Hi everyone! We have now been on the race for 6 months. We have loved our team, our squad, and serving with them. We have truly seen God do amazing things! With that being said, we have also had some struggles and challenges. We quickly realized that we have a different vision than AIM. Neither is bad-just different. They are very focused on our self journey while doing missions, and we want to be more ministry focused and less self focused. This and a few other things such as not enough married people time, some differences in beliefs, and really missing being able to get plugged into churches-we have been praying about our next step. We have prayed about how our money could best be used according to our convictions. We first considered going home or continueing on the World Race. Then God gave us the idea to continue going country to country, month to month, sharing the love of Christ on our own.
So starting today, January 3rd, we are off to the Philippines on our own. We are coming alongside a Calvary Chapel Missionary in Toledo City Cebu and serving with them, doing outreach, kids ministry, feeding people, and ministry at a dumpsite. We will be there for 10 days and then are traveling to Bohol to do disaster relief with All Hands Organization. We will be in the Philippines for a month and then are heading to Nairobi, Kenya where we will be staying and volunteering in an orphanage-taking care of infants and toddlers. We also are getting involved in the Calvary Chapel there.
All this being said, we are soooo sooooooo soooooooo excited for the next few months and what God has planned! We are thankful to get to choose our ministry, serve together, have more married people time, and get to go to church. Thanks everyone for all your support, encouragement, and prayers! We could never have done any of this without you! We pray God blesses you beyond measure.
I am working hard on finishing all my blogs up until January…God moved in awesome ways and I want to share it with you and will keep it on the world race blog since it was during that time. After that we are creating a new blog and will link it when we start blogging there. Please continue to follow us and pray for us. God bless!
