My Amazing Husband!

I would like everyone out there to know that I have the most Amazing Husband!  Yep, it's true he really is Amazing.  We just celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary and let me tell you I was in for a Surprise! I thought we were going out for dinner and maybe a movie but what happened was far better.  To my surprise he had planned to do a renewing of our vows for that night.  (we had talked about doing this for years)  He told me he wanted me to buy a long white beach dress for our anniversary night, which I did but had no clue why.  Once we got ready to go out he said our daughter forgot some clothes and needed us to drop them off at her friends house (which is our pastors kids).  Once we got there he shut the car off and said I think they are around back, so I got out with him and was totally shocked!  There on the back porch was my family and friends sitting in chairs with my two beautiful  girls standing up front holding flowers!  It was so overwhelming, I started crying, and crying...and crying.  Travis gets down on one knee and asks me to marry him all over again ( This part was so special because I have given him a hard time for not getting down on one knee to ask me to marry him the first time).  We walked up to where our girls were and they gave me flowers and then Pastor Giles had us renew our vows.  Then behind us was this table set up with 5 vases.  The big one in the middle was empty and the 2 vases on one side had black sand and the 2 on the other side had white sand.  Travis the girls and I all poured the sand into the empty vase one at a time and it made this beautiful mixture of black and white swirls.  This was to represent that we are united and together one!  The entire night was so beautiful even the weather cooperated.  So here's to you honey, Thanks for being such a Amazing Husband!

Back to School!

Today was our girls first day back to school.  I had to chuckle as I asked them last night if they were ready and my oldest (who is a teen) said I have a list to get done like...shave my legs, polish my nails, pick out an outfit, etc.  Ahhhh, how did my mother handle 5 girls? They did have the first day of school jitters so I am praying that they will have a good experience and make good friends.  On the other side of things this means Travis and I have more time during the day now to focus on getting things in order for our move to PNG.  I have to say that all of this has become rather overwhelming.  How does one prepare for living overseas for 5 years in less than 4 months?  Well, we will soon find out how well we prepared! We continue trusting the Lord with every decision that has to be made.  We will be doing more traveling sharing our ministry at the end of this month.  We are heading to Florida and will be sharing at my cousins church and meeting with individuals, so if you think about it would you pray that God would open doors for more opportunities to share our ministry and bring more partners on?  Thank You!

Ready, Willing, Waiting!

Can you believe it's August already?  Time sure does fly for us right now.  It seems like we just moved back to start our team building, but before you know it we have less than 4 months to raise our support to be in Papua New Guinea by the time we have set for ourselves.  This is where the anxiety rolls in!  All in Gods timing...this has been something I have to keep reminding myself of.  God will get us there when he wants us there I just have to trust Him in the process.  Do you ever have those days where you have a hard time trusting the Lord?  I mean he has yet to be proven unfaithful but you think that in your circumstance that just might be the case?  Maybe I'm the only one out there that has times where I lack faith, but I think it's good to come to that place with the Lord.  I believe that is where growth takes place!  The constant doubting over a paticular issue/circumstance in your life and going back and forth with God about not seeing Him pull through.  The point is that you are going to God and seeking Him out.  Our dependance has to be on Him and not ourselves.  God wants us to come to Him, to share our hearts with Him and our doubts.  Even when we are faithless He remains faithfull!  All this to say that I am human and I have been struggling with not seeing our support at a higher level yet, and seeing the months pass by and our departure date coming closer and closer.  Faith is not by sight but by believing in the things you can't see..so with that I continue to trust the Lord that He knows what he is doing.  Thank the Lord!