And so the journey begins...

We are excited to tell you about an amazing journey… one that we feel very passionately about sharing with each of you. While our wish is that we could sit down and talk to you personally, we know that is not possible since you are scattered all over the country. 

Dawn and I have always shared a heart for missions. Individually we felt that tug as children through various avenues.  Then, God brought us together as we prepared for more mission work in college.  In fact, we met at orientation for Summer Missions while attending MSU in 1995.  God has continued to give us opportunities to serve Him in different ways over the years, both locally and internationally.

While serving as the Missions Pastor at LifeBridge Church, John has had the opportunity to travel to the community of Camp Coq, Haiti on five different mission trips. Our church works with an orphanage and church in the community there. Dawn has felt the call to go to Haiti since before John’s first trip in 2009, but due to our last pregnancy and taking care of the children she has yet to be able to go. In spite of the fact she has not been, God continues to grow our passion & our heart for the community of Camp Coq.  Over the last year we’ve felt an unexplainable call to go & serve Him in Haiti on a full time basis.  For now, we are working towards a move date in January 2013.

We know that as you read this you have a ton of questions. Don’t feel alone in that! We ourselves have a ton of questions that we don’t have the answers to right now. We are in the process of researching and praying for answers, but also resting in the fact that God has called us to this and we are confident that He has already worked out every detail.  We trust that He will continue to reveal answers in His time frame and that is sufficient for us.

As we continue to work through things and as details are revealed, we will share them with you.  We plan to develop a blog so that we can share updates on a regular basis.  Please know that our number one need from each of you at this point is prayer, prayer, prayer and more prayer.  J  We ask that you would pray for our family as we prepare to go and that God would continue to show us the details we need to be concerned with and also spare us the details that we need not be concerned with.

Thank you for your love and support over the years.  We look forward to taking this journey with you!

John & Dawn