Waiting for God's plan

Just when you think that you know what God's plan is for your life you get thrown for a loop. I am thankful that God is in control of my life and that I rely on Him to provide and guide me. It gets confusing though when times are tough and you just don't know where you are going or what direction God wants you to take. I know that God uses these times to stretch us and help us learn and grow. I will be thankful when I come out on the other side, but for now I am trying to be patient in waiting for the unveiling of His plan. I guess we always need to remember that we cannot see the whole picture like God can and that we can't start thinking that we have it all figured out and that nothing will ever change. We can take comfort in the fact that God is guiding us through all the good and bad times and that we can use both experiences to praise God.

Planting a seed

For almost a year now Mike and I have been talking about the idea of getting involved in church planting. It is definitely a subject that we have are gradually getting more excited about and are to the point now that we really feel God is leading us to start taking some action. We are now living in the Beaverton, OR area which is near where we have thought about planting a church. Our idea now is to start working on forming our church plant while Mike works a "secular" job at the same time. We will still be in ministry and will be working toward full-time ministry in the future when we can be fully supported by a church or by individuals who feel strongly about helping our church plant succeed. We have lots of logistics to work out to take the next step and we will be praying about how to go about that now. There are different organizations out there that work with church planting and we may be able to join their program. We already have many ideas about what we would do as a church plant and that has been fun and exciting to brainstorm and think about all the great things we could do.