Passionate Homemaking

 I wanted to fill you all in on what God has been doing in our lives lately, as many things have been chang­ing since I last updated you. (Read here for the last update) Thank you to those who have been pray­ing for us!

  Karis is 10.5 months old now, and moving around with her army crawl. It is so fun to see her learn how to explore, look and touch…but at the same time I am having to stay on top of keep­ing the kitchen floor swept, as she loves to pick up all the left­overs and stick them in her mouth. She has four teeth now, two on the bottom and two on the top.

We are moving for­ward with becom­ing full-​time techno-​missionaries and are plan­ning on join­ing forces with Light­Sys, an “organization ded­i­cated to equip­ping Chris­t­ian mis­sions and min­istries with the com­puter tech­nol­ogy cor­rect for them, includ­ing the knowl­edge and con­tacts needed to sup­port that tech­nol­ogy. As a result they can serve with greater effi­ciency, keep­ing their mind on their task, not their com­put­ers, thus redeem­ing tech­nol­ogy — for God’s King­dom (accord­ing to their website).”

We have really felt God con­firm this in our hearts. We know that God has given Aaron gifts in this area for a pur­pose, and since we both have a heart for mis­sions, this seems to be the per­fect place for our family. This will be a grad­ual process, but we hope by the end of the year to be work­ing full-​time with this min­istry, if the Lord wills. We will have to raise our own sup­port, which brings a cer­tain amount of fear and trep­i­da­tion, but we know that if God has us do this, He will provide!

God is prov­ing Him­self faith­ful once again in pro­vid­ing all our needs during this tran­si­tional time. He has taught me the impor­tance lately of let­ting my hus­band manage and con­trol the finances. My desire to serve my hus­band in this way was good, but it was a respon­si­bil­ity I was not meant to bear. (I am prob­a­bly so behind many of you in finally real­iz­ing this!)

As a result of pass­ing off the man­age­ment, paying the bills, etc. I have felt such peace! He won’t even tell me now what our status is , but I am thank­ful for this. He will give me the funds to cover the house­hold needs, and I get to have fun being frugal and wise with­out that, but that alone is my domain.

It is amaz­ing how ful­fill­ing it is to learn how to stretch the dollar…especially when it is for a King­dom cause!

We would appre­ci­ate your con­tin­ued prayers as there are many deci­sions yet to be made. To Him be the glory!