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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Sharing at churches

Good evening, 


We have been home for a month now and it is still feeling like we haven't stopped moving.. but that is good.  We were blessed a few Sunday's ago to have a chance to share with our home church what we learned at our Pre-Field Training in April. It was so good to be back with our church family and to get to thank them for their support in sending us off. 
That Sunday we shared, were prayed over by our church, and Eric got to lead communion. He shared the lesson we learned about the cross. That while we see the cross as big enough to cover the gap when we are first saved it tends to not stay big enough. That the more we learn about God's righteousness and the more aware we are of the depravity of our sin we tend to think that the cross isn't big enough to cover that gap.  So we fill it in with 'religious standards' or 'good works' or we downplay God's law...  because we think we need to help the cross. But the truth is that the cross has always been and always will be big enough to cover the gap between us and God. 



We were also blessed this Sunday to share at New Life Church in Pulaski. We are so excited to partner with them as we continue to strive towards the goal God has set before us. It was great to get to share our heart and the need in England. While there we got to meet some amazing people and look forward to building on those relationships.

Next week we are off to Grace Bible church to share then we will get to attend our home church before making a visit to some of our partner churches. 

 - if you believe your church may be interested in hearing about the youth/young adult ministry we are going to start in England, please let me know. We would love to share some information with you and them to see if we can set up a time to share.

~Megan

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

This popped up on Facebook


This came up in my memories from 2 years ago, we were commissioned by GEM and then sent home to start our fundraising training so that we could start fundraising that summer.

This journey that God has been leading us on has been one of the scariest, hardest, most difficult, faith demanding,  self denying, God relying seasons in my life. But in it - beyond the moments of fear, doubt, loss, and release has been some of the biggest God providing, God speaking, God leading moments I have ever experienced. 

When we started I thought I could plan it all out, that I could  rationalize and organize it so that it would be a minor inconvenience to make a major change. I thought I had learned about sacrifice and understood my faith to be strong.  BUT God had so much more in store. He isn't worried about my schedule or my organized lists... He, in all his devine grace, is worried about my heart..about me becoming more like Him,  heaven focused leaving the things of this world behind.

One thing we covered at training was that God isn't just worried about or focused on the ministry to the people we are going to serve - even if that's all we can see. He is also just as focused on me and invested in our growth and the ministry we have to our family, friends, and partners here. It stood out, that tiny two letter word in the middle of the sentence.  God is really going to use this time to invest in me and worry about my growth? When we started I was looking at this season of 'in-between' as just a time to rush through and use to get to the final point (UK). But God, as my loving Father, saw this time as a chance to grow me and help me.

And He has.. like I said above.. I have learned so much about me and about my God. It is still hard, when the partner meeting is canceled, when the church says they can't support missionaries going to a first world country, when I want so badly to raise our little one in a home all our own, when I talk with youth in England and I just want to be there ministering, when you can't give a leaving date because it's not in your power to make it happen at that time no matter how hard you try... we (as missionaries) don't admit that often because we are supposed to seem like we have an unshakable faith and complete battle plan... but I am human and the journey is long....

BUT GOD gives grace and there's those moments when someone who never thought of England starts praying for the people,  when we meet missionaries at conferences who were where we are twenty years ago but have been on the field eversince, when after crying out to God he brings up a verse or song, when we are counting the days and we get an encouraging  text or card from a partner, when another person sees God's plan for Somerset and joins our team...

I have learned about leaving, loving, counting the cost, and listening. I have seen God move and comfort and provide. I am so excited to see what he does next.. not just when we get to England but as we wait here in the 'in-between'. What I all didn't know when this picture was taken makes me amazed at how much God still has to show me and makes me wonder what I will be able to write when we take out first picture in England. 


Thank you for taking this journey with us.  ♡