Our life ahead!

Well, a lot has happened in the past months since my last visit to this blog. The Lord has done quite a bit of work on both Aaron's and my heart. After spending a spiritually challenging week in Pennsylvania over our spring break, God has been molding our perspective on life's purpose. Separately we both felt the Lord giving us a heart for overseas church planting with the organization we are currently associated with through bible school, New Tribes Missions (NTM). Through the Lord's leading, we believe this desire will lead us to continue on with NTM to pursue tribal church planting. To make a very looong story short, this means that we plan to do phase 2 of the two-part training program with NTM.
Aaron completed the first phase in May when he finished the 2-year bible school program here in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. This coming year I plan to finish my second year and Aaron plans to be a part of the internship program at the bible institute. Simultaneously, we are going to attempt to raise support for phase 2 training and both work jobs as we prepare for the next stage of our life with NTM.
The second phase of training will take place in one of the two locations "state"-side: either southern Missouri or Southern Canada. At this point, we are leading toward Canada because it is smaller campus with a better staff-student ratio. We foresee this being a better set-up for the discipleship we both really desire during this second phase. But all that to say, if the Lord sees fit for us to be in MO, then Missouri it is! Honestly, we're going to take it a step at a time.


I'm sure this update leaves a lot of unanswered questions and probably created a lot more, too. I'm obviously bad at keeping promises to regularly update this blog, but it is my *goal* to update as things progress and more clarity is provided us. In the near future, Aar and I are planning on joining blogs and kind of tag-teaming to update everyone as we continue on with NTM. When that happens I'll give everyone a little notification...
Until then, I will try to post as much as possible, hoping to help everyone feel included in our journey ahead. We can't wait to see where the Lord directs. Please join us in praying for clarity as we pursue His heart in reaching the lost.


Yay Jesus!


:) Ally