Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and fun New Year and are getting back into the post-holiday swing of things!  I have lots of changes coming up for me and wanted to give you an update on my path to the mission field and about an exciting thing the Lord is doing in my life!  The Lord has blessed me with the desire and opportunity to serve Him as a missionary with SIM.  During that process, God has also blessed me by bringing an amazing young woman into my life who is also an SIM missionary candidate like myself, we actually met at one of SIM’s orientation events.  We have been pursuing a relationship together which has been such an amazing blessing for both of us but which required some thought about our immediate plans as I was headed to Peru and she was headed to Africa.

After a lot of talking and praying together and talking with many others as well as SIM, we both have decided to put on hold our individual plans and pursue our relationship to see where the Lord may take it.  This does not affect my goal and desire to serve the Lord overseas, just the timing.  Although I don’t know the Lord’s purpose or timing at this point for bringing us together, I am confident that He has done so at this time for a reason and it is well worth my time and effort to invest in this relationship and see where it might lead.  Katie is a fun and wonderful woman and I am excited to have found a woman with the same passion for missions and desire to serve as me!  As such, my immediate plans for going to Peru are put on hold and I will be going to Los Angeles in order for Katie and I to experience the full breadth of a relationship and ministry together with the hope that we can go to the field together down the road.

Administratively, this plan has the full blessing of SIM and all of the financial support raised thus far will remain in my account until the time when I leave.  For those of you who have been supporting me monthly, let me say how very much you have blessed and encouraged me!  During this time, I would ask that you hold off on your monthly contributions until I have a more definite timetable for going to the field at which time you can pray about if the Lord is leading you to continue that support.

I know this is probably a surprise to some of you but I hope you will feel confident as I am that the Lord who straightens my paths and is leading me in service both here and overseas is the same Lord who has blessed me with the love of an amazing woman.  I would love to answer any of your questions or tell you more about Katie, she is great!  Of course, I need and appreciate your prayers as always!

Thank you for your constant encouragement and support, you are all a blessing to me!