Seed Sized Faith

Jesus once said, "if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can speak to a mountain that is before you, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you." 

For seven years the Lord has spoken to us about a call that is on our lives, a call to New Zealand.  For much of this time, the call was like a distant whisper, without substance or understanding and yet it was always before us.  In the past few months the Lord has brought clarity to this gentle whisper and now all that is left is for God to make a way for us to go.  Our journey begins with 3 towering mountains which stand in our way. 

First and foremost is my wife Gina's health.  Over the past 9 months Gina has struggled greatly with health issues that came about after the birth of our third child.  The nature of her struggle places a great deal of stress and anxiety on her body and she struggles regularly to garner the strength to perform normal daily tasks.  Gina has walked in incredible faith, seeking to trust and obey the Lord throughout this whole process and we are confident that the Lord will bring peace and healing to her body.  However, we have not come to a place of peace as of yet on leaving with her in this condition.  We wait upon the Lord to provide exactly what we need to step forward into this calling.  Whether it is healing, or simply a word from the Lord that we are to step out into this journey and trust that healing will come..we wait for His instruction and trust that His provision will be more than enough to run this race!

The second mountain that stands before us is raising support to step into this mission.  As many of you know, the Lord has led us to enter into this journey by going on staff with YWAM (Youth With a Mission).  YWAM gives us 100% responsibility for raising our own support in order to do ministry in New Zealand.  We are currently hosting meetings and receptions, along with working on our 1st newsletter to broadcast our needs to those God has surrounded us with.  We are currently praying for the Lord to raise up a strong and faithful support team that will catch the vision of partnering with us in seeing the Lord's vision fulfilled in New Zealand and around the world.

The third mountain I am happy to say, the Lord has already managed to level!!  Our house had only been on the market for 26 days when the Lord brought forth a buyer and a generous offer, reminding us that He is in our midst and will do the impossible on our behalf as we seek to live and walk by faith. 

Currently, we are seeking the Lord as to our target date for heading to New Zealand.  We have an opportunity to head down towards the end of September, but it requires that the Lord move suddenly in leveling these mountains.  If things do not happen this quickly, our target date will shift to after the first of the year.  Please join us in praying and believing for God to move in a miraculous way!