Eat. Pray. Save

These three area’s the Lord has been highlighting in our lives. Let us explain…

1. Eat

Our desire is to one day {when we get jobs} eat completely organic and local foods. Did you know that a family went on a 100 day challenge to eat organically and many health related problems went away and their good cholesterol increased by 50%?? We see many benefits and have recently watched a movie called “Food Inc” that has unveiled the secrets of where our food comes from. It’s actually scary, so if you are willing to take a risk to change: watch this movie!

2. Pray

We are in search for an organic church. What’s this you may ask?

“I mean a non-traditional church that is born out of spiritual life instead of being constructed by human institutions and held together by religious programs. Organic church life is a grass roots experience that is marked by face-to-face community, every member functioning, open-participatory meetings (opposed to pastor-to-pew services), non-hierarchical leadership, and the centrality and supremacy of Jesus Christ as the functional Leader and Head of the gatherings. Put another way, organic church life is the experience of the Body of Christ. In its purest form, it’s the fellowship of the Triune God brought to earth and experienced by human beings.” –Frank Viola

We haven’t got it all figured out, but the more we study the New Testament and read books about church history, we have come to a mark of decision. We are hungry for unique, genuine, authentic fellowship that we read about in the New Testament, and somehow it’s missing today.

3. Save

God has put a high standard of faithfulness and integrity. As we transition into the “real world” we find ourselves trying to figure out how to operate in the American culture. A real question that was on our hearts was simply, “Do we rent?” – “Do we buy?” We came up with two conclusions: 1- Renting seems to be a waste of money. 2- We don’t have money to buy! But we can borrow! So that left us with big question marks… the more we’ve wrestled through it all we came to the realization that in life there are steps. We can’t have it all at once. Sometimes we think we can. Debt is not to be an option. We are going to try to go against playing the game some American’s play… get what you want when you want it and pay it off later. We want to be faithful with what we have and work for what we think we need. If we can’t buy it now, perhaps it’s not a priority?

The Next Chapter

For those of you who haven’t heard, we have left our organization ‘Youth With A Mission’. This is something that God has been stirring in us for about a year. We have been praying since then and around Christmas/New Year we felt like the time was coming. Our plan was to end after our trip to Africa… but even that looked different than what we thought. We both have a heart for long-term missions and wanted to move overseas. God has been transforming our view on things and we believe that God wants to equip us for the future. It is a time to learn new things, meet new people, to grow in our relationship with others, together, and with God. We don’t know what all of this looks like, but we have a peace knowing that the first act of faith was to leave YWAM. We seek God on where to live, where to work, and where to fellowship….