So, 7 days from this very moment we'll be on the road, at some random hotel in either Alabama or Georgia, on our way to Wilmington, NC! We'll be leaving the 12th and moving in the next day. My parents will be going with us to help us get everything out there, and then they will be heading back to VB on Sunday or so. Not only do we ask you to pray for us and our safety traveling, but also for my parents on their way back, and for the opportunities and the hearts we will have the chance to touch when we get there!
I have gotten a job with Coastal Horizons, a prevention based organization that works with teens and other individuals that are high risk or at risk of drugs, alcohol, etc... What I'll be doing is working with the Outdoors center working with teens and such on the Alpine tower high ropes, low ropes, and also sea kayaking/canoeing down in the ocean and in the bay of the Cape Fear River. Sara has gotten some freelancing work with several of the area magazines and is also most likely going to be working with the Magazine-Wilmington Parent. She will be doing a lot of the same stuff she has been doing/will continue doing for Peekaboo in NWA!
So...to put it straight, things are actually coming together! I don't think there are very many people ready to leave comfort as much as Sara and I are. We can't wait to get out there...just trying to be patient. God has really been working on me in several different ways, and its stretching me in ways I didn't realize! I'm growing as a youth pastor, and I'm not even pastoring youth yet! He is showing me things that will be very helpful in the days to come, and I'm pumped! God has made it very clear to us that He wants us in the Wilmington area, now we just get to see what he has in store for us! As always, we will miss everyone, and we would love to see everyone before we leave, but that's just not Humanly Possible! Please feel free to contact us any time you want! We love hearing from people and getting a glimpse of what God is doing in those that we care abouts lives!
Just a small something to chew on! I've been reading through Matthew...and God's shown me things that I've never realized before, maybe because I'm a bit slow sometimes, but man is this awesome! It blows me away in chapter 16 when Jesus is talking to Peter. Jesus asks who am I, and after several "answers" He asks again...who do you say I am? Peter replies and that conversation ends up with Christ telling him that on him, on the rock, God will build his church...the CORNERSTONE OF THE CHURCH! Right after that in a matter of 5 verses, Jesus tells of His soon to come death, burial, resurrection. Peter pulls Jesus aside and REBUKES JESUS(that's just dumb), and tells him that this would NEVER HAPPEN! Peter just doesn't know when to keep his mouth SHUT!!! Jesus then looks at the CORNERSTONE OF THE CHURCH and says, get behind me Satan, you are a stumbling block to me because you are to worried about the things of man, and not God! If that not encouraging to those feeling like they are called to lead, I don't know what is! When the cornerstone of the church can also be the stumbling block to others, then I know that I have no right to be anyone great, but God is still going to use me and call me to do so! I'm ready, who's with me?
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