Tag: New Tribes Mission

After about 7 weeks of waiting and praying we finally got our answer. Not yet. When we finished up our year and a half of missionary training in Missouri we, in faith, decided to make our leave date August 2016. At the time it seemed rather crazy and unattainable. At that time we had no […]

It. Is. Hard. As you know, we are still waiting to find out the status of our work permits for Tanzania. There is now a new process for acquiring work permits, but even before we knew about that there were a few other complications as well. So, needless to say, it’s been a slow process. […]

Life feels a little bit like a whirlwind right now! We are steaming ahead at 100 miles an hour and I have a feeling it may be like that until we leave for Tanzania in August. Praying for a little reprieve in July though! The end of May began the start of a month+ of […]

Tuesday morning came all too soon. Sweet Gideon was scheduled for a 7:30 surgery, which meant being up at the UVA Children’s Hospital at 6am. Since we live about 2 hours from there, we found ourselves crawling out of bed at 2:45am – talk about rough! We were blessed to have our soon to be nanny, […]

Do you ever have moments where you just feel like you are relishing in the blessings of a good, good God? It may be a moment when you are in church, singing a worship song, and simply aware of His presence. Or maybe it’s when you are watching a baby, awestruck of the complexity and beauty […]

It’s funny. The average American Christian is probably saying “Please, Lord, don’t send me to Africa.” I’ve heard it over and over growing up in the church. Our family is another story.  I guess you could say we are not the norm. Here we are saying, “Lord, please let us go to Africa.” There have […]

For numerous weeks our life group leaders told us about an event that would be taking place at Liberty University called The Compassion Experience.  The Compassion Experience allows you to, in 20 minutes, walk through the life of a child in another country, while listening to their story. When we heard about it we immediately […]

We had a song in our wedding called “Come and Listen” by David Crowder. It simply says, “Come and listen. Come and listen to what He has done.” Another part of the song says, “Let me tell you what He has done for me.” That is what I want to do right now. I want […]

When we started out this crazy journey of Partnership Development 12 months ago, Chandler’s uncle, Chad, offered to make a video for us. The purpose of the video was be to give people a small glimpse into what our family will be doing in Tanzania. After lot of prayer, many hours viewing video footage and […]