Welcome to our life!
One of the blessings in following God is the plethora of splendid people He brings across our path. When I (Anna) was in college, I told God that I would follow Him anywhere as long as I knew He was leading me. He took me up on that one! I can honestly say that at each stage of this journey I have loved where He has placed me. That’s not to say it’s always been easy, and it certianly has never been easy to say goodbye. Right now I am at another fork in the road and God is leading me on a differnt path than the one I’ve been on for the past two years.
Josh and I have both felt, individually, that God is calling us to career foriegn missionary work for quite some time. And what a massive blessing it was when He made our paths cross and purposed us to unite our journey in marriage. We will be taking this first year of marriage to grow and settle into our relationship, and also to pray about where God is leading us in missions. During this time Josh will continue his job as an Engineer at the Naval Shipyard and I will substitute teach.
A lot of friends and family have asked “what’s next?” or “where will you being going?” Being the planner-aholic that I am, I would love to be able to repsond to those questions with a definite answer! But God is continually testing my faith and asking me to trust that HE is in control and HE will reveal each step of this journey according to His timing. Josh and I are praying about a few different opportunities we have in foriegn missionary work. I would love to go back to Scotland for the rest of my days (of course!!), but we both know that we need to be totally open to going anywhere that God asks us to go.
So here’s the nutshell: We know career missionary work is definitely in the very near future, and there are some things that God wants us to do to prepare ourselves. We have discerned a couple of those things, which are: waiting until after our first year of marriage and Josh going to Seminary to get a Masters Degree in Theology (his background is engineering). Josh will start taking classes online this fall through a seminary back east.
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