God Moments: Faith Building Exercises
A few posts ago, I told you I would share some stories about how I saw God working through this process of becoming "missionaries." I need a break from Spanish homework, so I'll start off at the beginning. That's as good a place as any.
Mike and I got the "bug" a few years back after taking a few short term trips. I had gone on 4 trips to El Salvador and Mike had several trips under his belt to Venezuela. (I hadn't been there yet.) In 2006 we casually talked about what we would like to do for "retirement". We were all about traveling to different spots and spending 3 months or so helping missionaries. It wasn't something we talked about all the time, but we had a plan. That summer, we started the process for an international adoption.
The more time Mike spent in Venezuela, the more drawn he got (he generally took two trips a year). My first trip to Samuel's House was in September 2008 (and it was our first missions trip together). With all of the pictures and stories from Mike's stories, it was like I had been there since the beginning. I left a piece of my heart when it was time to go.
My second trip was in March 2009--Mike missed that one. When I got back we talked some more about working with missionaries and started working toward becoming financially independent. We put our house on the market (not at the best of times...) as part of the process. After telling our home group, a friend asked, "Are you moving to Venezuela?" Mike told him we weren't really sure what God had planned -- we just wanted to be ready for whatever. He was curious as to what made him ask the question. Our friend said, "When we were there Sonja seemed to be at home."
We just continued to pray for God to show us where He wanted us to be.
Four months after putting our house on the market, we accepted an offer that would allow us to close but stay in the house through the end of the year. This was an absolute answer to prayer because we had a trip to Venezuela scheduled for December 9th (closing was Dec 2) and we were spending Christmas and New Year's in Washington state for Mike's brother's retirement. We didn't have a lot of house-hunting time to find a place to live.
... which brings us to another God Moment which I will share next time.
Mike and I got the "bug" a few years back after taking a few short term trips. I had gone on 4 trips to El Salvador and Mike had several trips under his belt to Venezuela. (I hadn't been there yet.) In 2006 we casually talked about what we would like to do for "retirement". We were all about traveling to different spots and spending 3 months or so helping missionaries. It wasn't something we talked about all the time, but we had a plan. That summer, we started the process for an international adoption.
The more time Mike spent in Venezuela, the more drawn he got (he generally took two trips a year). My first trip to Samuel's House was in September 2008 (and it was our first missions trip together). With all of the pictures and stories from Mike's stories, it was like I had been there since the beginning. I left a piece of my heart when it was time to go.
My second trip was in March 2009--Mike missed that one. When I got back we talked some more about working with missionaries and started working toward becoming financially independent. We put our house on the market (not at the best of times...) as part of the process. After telling our home group, a friend asked, "Are you moving to Venezuela?" Mike told him we weren't really sure what God had planned -- we just wanted to be ready for whatever. He was curious as to what made him ask the question. Our friend said, "When we were there Sonja seemed to be at home."
We just continued to pray for God to show us where He wanted us to be.
Four months after putting our house on the market, we accepted an offer that would allow us to close but stay in the house through the end of the year. This was an absolute answer to prayer because we had a trip to Venezuela scheduled for December 9th (closing was Dec 2) and we were spending Christmas and New Year's in Washington state for Mike's brother's retirement. We didn't have a lot of house-hunting time to find a place to live.
... which brings us to another God Moment which I will share next time.
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