It’s with teary eyes and broken hearts that we announce that
we will have to return to the United States after one year in Brazil.
After a great deal of praying we have decided to return to
the United States by October in order to seek some medical assistance to find
out why we have been having recurring miscarriages.
We feel that, despite the good work and immense blessing we
have received by being missionaries in Brazil, we are called to start our
family as soon as possible.
Please pray especially hard for us as we transition and as
we hand over the reigns of the mission so it can continue when we leave.
The good news is that this does not mean we are finished
with our mission work. Definitely not! In fact, we see it as a transition from
one mission to another.
Being here in Brail has put us into close contact with many friends, family, and strangers who were inspired by what God is doing and eager to do it themselves. But they realize that they have families and it’s not necessarily possible to move away or to do such extreme things. This has inspired us to take some time over the next year or two to help ordinary Christians encounter Jesus in the poor of their own communities. We will be moving to San Diego in order to work as mentors to families who want to serve the poor, but do not know where to begin. We will be walking families through the process of doing mission work from home with their family. We will be focusing on serving the homeless, widows, orphans, elderly, those suffering from domestic violence, and immigrants while at the same time helping ordinary families do radical things for the sake of the Gospel. We’ve been working on a concept that uses social media to make the work of evangelizing understandable and accessible for everyone.
Please stay posted this fall for some information on what
this mission looks like and our website currently under development. We pray that many of you will join us this December
when we launch our initiative.
