The Call

Let's continue our story.....
We are both now followers of Jesus Christ. Mark was driving down the road one day and had a strange feeling. He immediately started praying. He felt like there was something major going on and couldn't put his finger on it. Well after much prayer we both realized that God was calling our family into full time ministry. Great! Wonderful let's do this. We were glad to know what God wanted from us and to answer the call. We made it a public announcement at our church that God was calling us into ministry. Awesome! Now what?

So what do we do now? That was our biggest question. Well we were already serving in our church as Sunday school teachers so that had to be moving in the right direction, right?! Basically after answering the call to ministry we did nothing! Not one thing! We just kept right on doing exactly what we had been doing before we answered the call. So this is when God starts moving in ways we may not be to excited about.

This is all happening the summer of 2007. Well that summer Mark lost his job. After looking for a couple of months he found something but it was kinda far away and he hated it. So then he left that job and went to work in a lawnmower shop. The whole time he is looking there is a company near our house that he has applied to and continues to call even though they have no openings. Finally in the Spring of 2008 Mark gets the job at the company close by. What an answer to prayer. Shortly after that though I lost my job! This is where our finances really really start to suffer.

They say hindsight is 20/20, and boy are they right! We both believe that through the loss of both our jobs and the financial hardships that we went through the past four years that God was teaching us and preparing us. He was teaching us a lesson for not following through on what He called us to do. He was also preparing us for all the He has for us to do. So that is a brief history bringing us up to Janurary of this year. Again instead of going on forever in one blog, I will write again!

Brandi