1st Blog!

Well this is my first blog posting. I hope to keep everyone updated on our progress to the mission field and everything in between. A little background info. Lori and I were called to serve as missionaries about 1 year ago on our churches (AndersonNazarene.com) faith promise Sunday. It's a Sunday where we make monetary pledges to support missions for the Church of the Nazarene. Dr. Chuck Gailey was the speaker and I'll forever be grateful that God used him to speak to me. The call was as clear as me and you talking to each other. Dr Gailey was explaining what it meant to be a missionary and God said "I want you to do that". Well here we are a year later and Lori and I have been to Cross Cultural Orientation training and are planning to go on a Work and Witness trip to Guatemala in October. We will have to leave our 2 kids (Collin and Maiya) with family during that 9 day trip which has been difficult to accept.

As far as today goes, church was good as usual. The atmosphere was a little somber for some reason in the service today (might have been my mood). The 5th graders in Sunday school had the giggles as 5th graders sometimes do. Collin was crashing from his big 6th birthday party yesterday so was pretty grumpy at church. Everyone is taking their Nazarene nap as I'm typing this. I need to mow the lawn for the 1st time this season or I'm going to have a hard time getting the mower through it next week.