Festivals! Festivals! Festivals!

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Is this real life?

What is service? What is the point of “missions”? Why do we serve the poor and feed the hungry? What makes you a “missionary”? Sometimes I find myself serving people just for the sake of doing it because God would be pleased or because it was what I was taught Jesus did. And we should do what Jesus did. But I knew deep down that there was another level to this service that followers of Jesus are called to. For what purpose do we serve people?...

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Fancy Wedding, Small Town Church, Refugee Haven

Rach and I talking about our weekend on the long car ride home and realized how crazy and different the places are that we have been in the past 24 hours. We had an absolutely amazing time with Greg and Lori May at their wedding on Saturday. It was hands down the most fancy and posh wedding/reception that I have ever been a part of. When we got to the reception I told Rachel that I felt like we were in a movie or something. It was so much fun to...

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A New Season of Life

I love new seasons, for the most part, because of the freshness of it and the excitement of newness. And along with those things I have grown to appreciate the way the Lord humbles me through them and reminds me how much I need Him. Day four in Clarkston is over and I continue to feel like a wide-eyed child more and more. I also am more and more aware of how much bigger than myself the task ahead of me is. 1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus,...

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Giving Things Away

Luke 5:11 - So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him. I am not really much of a stuff person. So preparing to give things away and leave things behind, for the most part, hasn't been that hard for me. But yesterday we gave away the first of our three dogs. Abraham...

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The Lord's Provision

Let me start by saying the Lord has been so good to us. Rachel and I currently have enough support to fully pay tuition for Training School and for living expenses while we are in Clarkston. We are so appreciative to all of the people who have been a part of the Lord's amazing provision for us. Please continue to pray for the Lord's ongoing provision as we prepare for the years to come in India....

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Pho, Fleas, Flumes, and a Forgotten God

After months of wedding planning, the momentous/emotional/surreal day finally came. Our wedding was such a beautiful mix of our lives joining together, of all of our close family and friends celebrating with us, and of the Lord's name being glorified. For all of you who came, it meant the world to...

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Of Course I Do

So the wedding will be t-minus 14 days tomorrow, and I am so stinking ready for it to be here. All of the most important things are pretty much done and ready, so now is just me waiting for that wonderful moment to be here. And then whirlwind through it to the honeymoon. Haha. The feelings I am having for the marriage are very similar to what I feel like our world is feeling right now. It seems that everyone and even the earth itself is groaning...

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Back To The Present

So in case you didn't know, I got back from a scouting trip to India a week or so ago. I feel like I should post about that, but I'm gonna save most of that for another day. I had heard that even from a shorter trip there is some reverse culture shock that happens after you get back, but I didn't really know what that would look like for me. Well, seeing your fiancee after three weeks of being on opposite sides of the world was pretty stinkin awesome....

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With only 100 days till we get married, it might be appropriate to recap the last 415

Normal 0 0 1 739 4216 35 8 5177 11.1287 0 0 0 So, what every person has been dying to hear… our story! How this power couple was formed! (Haha, just joking, we’re not a power couple, just a couple that the Lord brought together for His glory. So I guess we are a power couple that the Holy Spirit empowers daily. I digress...) So here goes, just a (maybe not so) brief (with some details...

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