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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." ~Martin Luther King Jr


I officially met Jeff in the fall of 2009, we had known of each other for four years prior as his mother was the pastor at our church. The first thing I found out about him was that he was called to a life in ministry.  He told me that God had called him to be a pastor and he was going to do anything to make it happen.  The next thing he told me is that he knew there was something special about me the first time he had heard me sing in 2006.  I knew then that I was in love.

Fast forward 3 years and now he is my husband...

                          ...and we are embarking on a wild, wonderful, terrifying, exciting adventure into seminary.

When the acceptance letter arrived mid July we were ECSTATIC!  Scream, hug, cry, laugh, jump up and down, repeat.  God had answered our prayers and we were going to seminary.  

As we came down from the high reality set in and we realized we had absolutely NO clue what we were getting into... In our moment of clarity Jeff looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "I'm so afraid I'm going to let you down."  In a split second all of my fears and questions (how can we do it on one income?  where are we going to live?  how are we going to pay for it? and so on.) fell away and I knew in that moment I was called by God not only to be this man's wife, but eventually be this pastor's wife.  I looked straight into his eyes and said, "God called you to this choice, as long as you follow that call, you can't let either of us down."  6 months before he even set foot in a classroom, here I was pastor-ing the pastor...

We're standing at the top of the stairs, looking down through fog and cannot see the rest of the staircase... but with each other, our families, our friends, our churches, and most importantly our God, we're going to trust our faith foundations and come down off the landing onto the first step.  

Thank you for going on this journey with us!

Until next time!
In Christ's Peace