Transitional Time

In July, Brett and I began to have dreams and visions that, honestly, didn't make any sense at the time and we were praying that God would reveal their meaning to us. Then, in the middle of August, as I was laying my head down for the night, I heard the voice of God very clear and concise. "Leave this land, this family and go to a place that I will show you." This is from Genesis 12:1. A sense of peace flooded over me and I went straight to sleep, only to awake about 2:00 AM with Proverbs 4:7...The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight....running through my head. As I lay on the couch trying to figure out what was going on, I gently fell back to sleep.

The next day, I spoke to Brett and we knew without a doubt that we needed to get some wisdom and insight for the dreams that we were dreaming and the words that God was speaking to our hearts. We immediately sent out SMS's/Text to several spiritual leaders in our life with the following message. "Please pray for us and if you receive a word from the Lord, please tell us." We didn't tell them ANYTHING that the Lord had spoken because we wanted to see if there was confirmation. The words of confirmation began to come. Let me say again that these folks had no idea what was being dreamed or spoken. Some of these folks had scripture, some just had words, some had full on commentary.

At this point, we did begin to speak out what God was showing us through the dreams, words, and scripture. We put in several calls to our pastor, Chris Shelton of Life Church SalisburyWe shared our hearts about what God was speaking and how to handle this transition well. Pastor Chris listened and gave advice and spoke words of encouragement.  I want to say that Pastor Chris and Life Church have rocked our planet with their love for us and we are more than grateful for our family at Life Church!

When we began this journey, we never imagined that God would call us away from Ten Thousand Homes, but He has. Funny thing is this, we had several people ask us if we thought that this was our training ground and we would always laugh and say, "Nope! We're here for the long haul!" Guess what? We've found ourselves right in the middle of Proverbs 16:9. Our hearts made a plan but God...well He has other plans. Now we have a choice, choose obedience to His call or stay, dig our heels in and pull a Jonah. Let me tell you, three days in the belly of giant fish is NOT my idea of a pleasure cruise!

So! We are in a time of transition. We have left our missionary training ground at Ten Thousand Homes and we are waiting on the Lord to reveal the next step in the journey. We have been blessed with a place to stay while we sort out our Visa and seek the Lord on the next step of our journey. How God worked this out is a whole other blog! We both feel that we are still called to this area of South Africa, however, we're keeping our hearts, our eyes and our ears open to what the Lord would have us do.

We are so very grateful to Jeremy and Jen Price and John and Carla Shaw, the elder team at Ten Thousand Homes, for allowing us the opportunity to work with TTH and for trusting us to lead things like tea time in Mbon and building homes. We are thankful for their prayer of blessing over us as we left and we pray that God continues to open up the windows of heaven and bless TTH.

Thank you to those who have supported us through your on-going prayers and gifts of finances. I like to call you guys prayerful, financial missionaries! You may not be able to go, but you pray and give to those that do and for that we are all truly grateful! Should you want to become a member of our financial missionary group, you can give through World Outreach.

It's a new journey! Come along for the ride!