Unfinished business

This passage was shared with me by a dear prayer partner who has been lifting England up to our heavenly father.  

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”


‭‭Revelation‬ ‭3:1-6‬ ‭NIV‬‬

She shared this revelation with me. She noticed the words: "I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God."  How greatly God has used the nation of Great Britain and the Church there in the past to reach the entire world with the Gospel!  The impact has been huge!  But their time is not over yet; God's work and purposes for the British people are not done.  Their deeds are "unfinished."  That is why is is so vital for this nation's church to be awakened and brought to life again!

She is so right, God is not done with England. He is not done with the people. God will move mightily in and through England like he has done before. Look at what is written about the church in Sardis right before that. It says  "I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die"

England has a reputation that is blinding to the world. People focus on the history and the spiritual state it once had.  But that is like looking at a chard painting and calling it beautiful because of what it once was.  Instead of taking the time to pick away at the burnt edges until you see color once again.  England is almost dead, there is a generational gap in the church that is staggering, but because of its false reputation no one sees the need to help it.  We are called to strengthen what remains.  To bring life to a generation that has been left out.

-megan. 

Fundraising has started.

Hi everyone!

     Sorry it has been a month.... wow we have been busy. Since coming back from orientation we have been able to meet with our fundraising coach on a weekly basis. We have been learning so much from her and are excited to say that we have started the fundraising process.

     As summer has arrived we are looking forward to hopefully heading out to meet with family and friends who are not in our area.  It is exciting to get to share our heart and passion and make partners for the ministry.  We are so thankful that God has provided us with amazing families and friends, along with coaches to keep us encouraged as we start this next phase of the journey.  Praise the Lord we are 3% funded!!

    We have finalized our brochure and are looking into getting it printed, this will have a summary of our ministry along with simple statistics and facts about England. Some of these fats are that while in England 49% of all people claim no religious affiliation and less than 2% claim to be born again Christians. Church attendance in England is the lowest in all of Europe at only 6%.
   Through our research we have learned that people in England struggle with anxiety, depression, and self harm at higher rates than most of Europe.  We also learned that in England the highest cause of death in men between the ages of 25 and 45 is suicide.

    Hearing these facts can be saddening and disheartening, but we serve a God of love and hope. He is powerful enough to effect the hearts of these people and radically change their lives and environments.  

 


     

     

BOOYAH!!!!!!!  

We had our booyah and bake sale two weeks ago at our church.  

After two days full of hard work and prep we were blessed by God through our family, church family, and friends. It was so wonderful and encouraging to see the support we had around us.  

The sale raised $1009.00, that is basically half of the cost for candidate orientation. How amazing is that.  

                Shredding the 15 chickens to make the 40 gallons of booyah.

                                         Fishy cupcakes for the bake sale.

                                   We we're blessed by our family helping out

                                       Tons of baked goods.

One step closer

 

We are so excited to share that we have been appointed and commissioned with GEM to serve in the United Kingdom!!!

  Greater Europe Missions (GEM) is a missions organization that was started in 1949. As a ministry their desire is to engage Europe through making disciples in every nation. Their focus is on church planting, discipleship, and evangelism.  We are so excited to work with them in order to reach the young adults and young families in England. If you want more information about GEM you can visit their website at http://www.gemission.org/.  

Our name on the appointee map in GEM headquarters.
 They day we depart for the UK they move our flag to the missions map. 

We had such a great time in Colorado, at candidate orientation. We were able to make some great friends and learned so much to be better prepared for the field. We have a journey ahead of us but we are excited to see how God moves in these next few months.

We had one free day during the week and we went to visit the Garden of the gods. It is such a beautiful place, looking around I was in awe at the beauty God displayed. You can't help but think of his majesty and strengthen when you walk around the high orange mountain peeks. 

This Sunday

So excited I finally figured out how to put pictures on our blog. Yippie!

This will definitely improve our updates. We were so blessed this morning to be supported and encouraged by our home church. We were able to share during the service then talk with ppl afterwards. Even with out my voice we were able to share our vision because my wonderful husband really ran the show. He did an awesome job!

Here we are sharing at out church. 

This is our board we use to share.. we have some doctor who figurines and some digestives (cookies from England )

These next steps

          Well we are getting ready to go to orientation and we are so excited.

          We are so excited to be able to share at our home church, NEW Freedom Church, this Sunday. It will be the first time that we get to share our vision with this family that we love. We also get to hand out our information cards and put up our poster. During this time we will also be promoting our Booyah sale. We have been blessed by the generosity of Eric's parents who are making booyah and other family members who are making baked goods.  We are selling them after church on the 15th of May to help raise support for our Candidate orientation.

         Right now we are in the process of working on figuring out banking, packing, and studying.  I am also working on how to format our email - once we figure that our we will start sending out emails as updates as well.  Please remember to keep us in your prayers; I currently have no voice from a bout with bronchitis that led into laryngitis. Eric has been on 10 hour days and on top of that has been helping to take care of me.  We are trusting that God will return my voice so that we can share together on Sunday and be in full health for Colorado.

          Can't wait to share with you the results of Candidate Orientation and where God is leading our next step.

      God Bless,
          Megan

Off to Colorado we go!

Wow! So much has happened!

So here's our quick update..

The mission conference in Watertown went great! We got to meet so many great people and it was wonderful working with their mission team IMPACTS.  It was a blessing to us that we got to meet a man from Bath (which is part of Somerset county). It was really encouraging to talk with him and have him pray over us. He really just encouraged us and just confirmed the need that is there and ignited our passion to get there to help. I am so thankful that God sends us little moments like that to encourage us along the way. I mean what's the chances!!!

We were able to gather a number of emails from people who are interested to learn more. This is exciting because I will be writing our quarterly email soon, both our blog and email will have the same information, just presented differently. 

On another note, we finished our application to GEM (Greater Europe Missions) and were invited to attend the Candidate Orientation. Which we accepted. This is the final step in joining the organization. So this means we will be heading off to Colorado for 8 days to learn more about GEM and so they can learn more about us. At the end of the orientation we will know if we are a good fit fro them and them for us. We are so excited to see God move through this whole process. We can't wait to get to know GEM more and see if they are the right fit for what God is calling us to do.

Please keep this time in Colorado in your prayers. There are a couple more pages we have to complete and a few things we have to do ahead of time. We also need to raise $2,500 for the orientation, travel, lodging, classes and materials. Then another $900 to cover our typical house expenses as neither of us will be getting paid for the week we have to take off.

We are trusting God to provide and are excited to see how He already is doing so.

Also, if you want to receive the quarterly emails please send me your email.

Well, I did promise this would be short. I am just so full of joy I couldn't wait to share with everyone.


See you back here soon :)

Megs