Before we were even married, God gave each of us a heart for Asia. It was a dream of mine to serve at an orphanage somewhere in Asia and love the orphans and street children of that country. After Mike did his student teaching in the Philippines, he knew that he wanted to go back to Asia and be an international teacher. Once we were married and I went back to school to get my Masters in Education, we knew that one day we would end up overseas as a teaching couple.
However, going back to school "held us back" from going overseas as soon as we had wanted, or as soon as we had planned due to time and financial constraints. God indeed had other plans for us though. During the time that we have been here, God has continued to faithfully grow, challenge, test and love us. It has been during this time that we found a church home that is Biblically-based and has sound theology, that has amazingly gifted pastors that challenge us and preach truth to us, and that has a loving church body with supportive brothers and sisters in Christ that spur us on in this journey of sanctification. Despite having wanted to go overseas as soon as possible, we are so grateful for the time that we have been in Minnesota.
We both still have a heart for Asia, which will be the focus of this blog for at least the next two years as we document our journey throughout Asia...
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