New Alignment...

I wrote in my update newsletter that next year is a year of new alignment. As I think about the phrase more and more...I begin to realise what it may look like or rather, what it may actually mean. 

Looking at the last 3 years of being just fully dedicated to doing missions, next year is a perfect and awesome year (and almost strategic! might I add) of celebrations, furlough and new beginnings. Matt and I are going to get married and begin our journey of life together and many other changes that come with that.

Matt and I plan to go to Thailand to the Call2All Congress in May 2013, and then in July 2013, we plan to do the Father Heart of God school in Penang for a week, or two. These 2 major events, whilst we are resting, getting to know each other’s families and learning how to live together seems to me the perfect way to have our furlough. It will be purposeful and not directionless. We hope to hear from God our direction as a family and allow God to minister to us at the Father Heart school.

I think I have come to a period in my life in missions to need that new alignment to a new environment, a new companion and a sharpened direction for the future. We both love Asia, we love missions, we love the nations, and we know we will be long term in this industry. It is perhaps a mind-boggling thing for many in that we both plan to have a family in missions too. But it is really not that crazy. There are many of us out there. ;)

And we continue to trust God to sharpen our faith, sharpen our vision for our future, for the plans that He has for our lives and our families...And we continue to trust Him to provide for our every need, no matter how difficult it may be because He is above all things. And...His promises has never failed us.

So, to a year of new alignment...and many more discoveries herein, cheers!

I am really excited,

Grace