Dramatic Change

We spent the last couple months in California. Our goal for the trip was mainly to share with people about our ministry to build our support team as we get ready to serve in Indonesia. In addition we were very eager to re-connect with many old friends and get updated on their lives. In all of this, I realized that our lives have changed dramatically in the last five years.

I'll give a little re-cap:
-August of 2004; Megan and I decided to move to Ohio to help with a Cornerstone Church plant.
-November 2004; Moved to Ohio.
-March 2006; Our oldest daughter Catelyn was born.
-May 2007; We decided after much prayer and consideration to pursue overseas missions.
-August 2007; We moved to Michigan for mission aviation training.
-August 2008; We moved back to Ohio to live with Megan's Mom.
-October 2008; Applied and evaluated with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF).
-January 2009; Spent the month in Nampa Idaho to learn more about MAF and joined the organization.
-February 2009 (to current); Began to seek Ministry Partners for our service overseas in Indonesia.
-March 2009; Our second daughter Ella was born.
-Current: Thinking through how crazy life has been over the last several months.

Life is definitely different these days. Can't say we're bored can you? We don't have time to be bored. Life is a vapor. It is here and it is gone. As chaotic as our lives have been and will continue to be, it is all for the sake of advancing the Gospel.

God saw man in his desperate state of sin and had compassion on him. Because He is righteous and perfect, He must judge sinners for turning away from Him and turning to their greedy, vain, selfish, prideful, sexually immoral, idolatrous, angry, inconsiderate and irreverent ways. God then sent His son Jesus Christ to die for the sins of the world. All who would put their faith in Him and turn back to God would have the hope of eternal life. I need Jesus and so do you.

When you truly get that, there isn't anything else worth living for. We want people to have the treasure that we have in Christ. To be rescued from their sin and turn to the living God who spoke with incomprehensible power in to existence the universe and all of its contents. "We are ambassadors for Christ as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God" 2 Corinthians 5:20.