Can you believe it???

Hello Everyone,

We just wanted everyone to know we are leaving Friend Ships in May. Our time has come and God has released us. We are pretty excite and are praying about the next step.

It is really hard right now because God is only telling us "Be Still and know that I am God" And "just wait"

I think the hardest part for me is going home and maybe running into old Friends. Especially those that don't believe in God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit. I guess I am stuck on the verse, Faith without deeds is dead. "I will show you my faith by what I do" But for me it is hard to articulate my faith with out really having anything to show for it at the time (like this summer). But as both Joel and I agree there are times I emphasize my work too much and some times put too much of my identity in my work. So it will be a challenge and a place to grow in God. I don't think I will shy away from telling about Jesus.

So yeah that is where we are. Working here at the warehouse until the last minute and closing this huge significant chapter in our lives.

We would not be the followers of Christ we are today if not God calling us to Friend Ships. It has been great and we have nothing to regret about our 7 years for Joel and 5 years for me. Wow can you believe it. Look what the Lord has done!!!

We can't even write a big enough book to tell you all that the Lord has done since coming here. Not just to us but all the miracles we have seen, the lives it has changed, and the people we have met. There were so many times I was in a "moment" at Friend Ships and thought wow I wouldn't even be here if not for saying yes to God or I wouldn't be talking or knowing these people if not for saying yes to God and coming to Friend Ships. There was one time during Hurricane Ivan relief in Florida we had just got done putting vinyl on an older couples house until they could get carpenters to put a really roof back on their house. They asked us to stay for dinner and as I sat with Joi, Joel, Jon, and the couple I couldn't help think "wow I wouldn't be here with these people sharing this wonderful moment if not for God." It has been incredible. Both incredibly wonderful and incredibly hard. Lots of laughter, lots of tears, lots of happiness, lots of sadness, lots of growth, and lots of love.

Thank you Lord for what you have done and we look forward to what you will do next and forever more!!!! Amen!