The Big Announcement

I’ve been driving many people crazy because I started the day saying I’d have a big announcement sometime this day. No, and once again, no, my wife is not pregnant. If you’ve come to the blog via my Twitter or Facebook, and have actually been here before, you’ll notice the name has changed as well as the picture up top.

The big announcement is this: a year from now (around Feb 2011) I will be finishing up my college degree by going to Peru for 6 months. Some, if not most, of you will say, “That’s it?”  It’s bigger than that. It’s the next step towards China. This blog is here to show the progress, so you can be a part and see all that happens as my wife and I work our way into becoming equipped to start a work in China. I would urge you to subscribe to my blog either by clicking here or clicking the link on the left right side of the page that says “Subscribe via E-mail”.

Here’s the next couple steps that we will be taking in order to get to our goal:

1. Get out of debt -The first thing is that sadly, we are in some debt. This all occurred before Crystal and I were married. Both of us have made the commitment that, Lord willing, we will never be in debt again. This will take between 7-9 months to finish off. Debt is much like (and possibly could be) sin, just because you stop doesn’t make the consequences of it go away. I will advise anyone I can, stay away from credit cards and any kind of loan; it is not wise to get and use them.
2. Work at the church - The biggest thing that any missionary needs is training before they get to the field. Though we work full time, we want to take advantage of the year we will have here and learn all we can to become prepared for the ministry. God has blessed us in that we are in a church whose focus is this. I will begin working with the pastoral staff and others to become better trained.
3. Raise funds – Though the trip is a year away, we’ll work slowly to begin with to raise funds for the 6 months. Some companies do what they call soft and hard launches of products. In a sense, we are soft launching ourselves to raise funds within immediate family and friends circles. Hopefully, in the next few weeks we will have an account through Vision Baptist Missions that will be used solely for our trip. This will also allow people to make tax-deductible donations to our fund.

It is exciting to see how God is working in our lives. I’m so thankful for the people who He has brought to help challenge and direct us into His will. Please pray for us as we continue and watch this blog for continual updates.

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