God is so good, and He is the Lamp unto our feet and the Light to our path... no matter how little beyond the next step we see He always goes there ahead of us.
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We had a meeting Monday with David Harkins, Missions Pastor at Sevier Heights Baptist Church. It was a wonderful meal at Cracker Barrel, where we shared about our heart and ministry with the Navajo. David let us know he would be getting back up with us for other groups at Sevier Heights we will be able to share with! What a blessing!
Went to Immanuel Baptist Church of Lexington, KY yesterday, a 175 mile round trip. This is the largest church we have visited. It was good to speak with the Missions Pastor, Jeff Story, about our calling among the Navajo. Whether we will be sponsored missionaries in their newly developed missions program remains to be seen, but it was both humbling and an honor to share with them.
God never stops amazing us as to when, where and how He will provide for us. After a dry spell of little new pledges, we just received a $250 lump pledge to be sent in very shortly. This mean we now have pledged a little over 2%. What does this mean? We now have 1 Week of support raised! God is so good! Thank you to everyone who has pledged, and we pray that God blesses you in these days and months to come!
This evening we also shared with the children of Immanuel Baptist, thanks to the invite of Jenni Lou Jackson. It was awesome to hear them so interested in the Navajo, and to have them sit so still when Rob shared his story. Some of them did look a bit quizzical and started giggling when he slipped into a rez accent while telling it. After running some relays, the children went out to play water games. It was good to share with the next generation.
Ahe'hee', ahe'hee', ahe'hee'!
Shared at Christian Chapel Foursquare Church about our hear for the Navajo this morning. Started out by singing the chorus of "Jesus Ayoo'asho'ni (Jesus Loves Me in Navajo)". Then shared about Rob and my past and future ministry working in Dine Bikeyah. Things went well. We received a few pledges, plus a Love Offering of about equal to 2 1/2 to 3 tanks of Gas. When ministry gas money goes from one Love Offering to another, that is a major blessing! Thank you so much to everyone at Christian Chapel who gave, thank you to those who gave pledges, and thank you soo much for our prayer friends. Everyone makes a big difference in this ministry!
We are returning to the Navajo winter 2013-2014 as missionaries partnered with the San Juan Baptist Association, when our support is raised... We start visiting at our own church Immanuel Baptist of Corbin, later this month into early June. After that, Michelle will be travelling to Kansas for a week to visit family and connect with our churches there. Then we will expand on through Kentucky and Tennessee. From there maybe Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and states in between. 
For us this is an answer to long months of prayer, as to when and how we would be returning to the Navajo Rez. Now we can begin prepping in earnest: sorting our things, having sales at the flea market, visiting our friends and churches. This is an exciting and scary place to be: Right at the start of our journey...
I was 16 years old the first time I heard the words, "I hear Dine Bikeyah calling..." I was sitting on a chair in Wichita, KS watching Rich Mullin's musical, Canticle of the Plains. Then I learned, "Dine Bikeyah is a real place, its the land of the people, the land of the Navajo." Right there at the edge of my seat, I felt some how Dine Bikeyah and the Navjao people were to be my future...
Now I am 29, and I have been living in Dine Bikeyah for over 2 years. I am still just a beginner in the beautiful Navajo language, and I live just off the rez in the town of Thoreau. Yet my heart is pulled there deeply, especially when I have been gone for a while. I get homesick when I leave Dine Bikeyah. I have found my home among a people not my own. I have found a place to stop wandering, in a land not my own, and I am home, at last.