It was October 2008 and Fall Break
was here! The Well, an interdenominational campus ministry that Tascha and I
were a part of at East Tennessee State University, was going to John's Island,
South Carolina to work with Habitat for Humanity. We both love to serve, so we
signed up and spent our Fall Break with our friends at the Well building a
house for a family outside of Charleston.
I will always remember that trip. Not
only for getting to serve, leading worship on the beach, or witnessing my
brother-in-law's baptism in the ocean, but because it was the beginning of
something amazing! You see, that mission trip was the first one Tascha and I
did together. We had both been on various trips prior, but none together.
Over the past few years, we have
been on and led various trips together. However, this past summer, we reached
another milestone in our marriage: our first international mission trip. When
we got married (August 2010), I promised Tasch I would take her to Africa (I
went to Kenya while we were dating), but I didn't know when that would happen,
or even if it would happen. Well, God has a sense of humor. In January 2012, we
were given the opportunity to go to Uganda to work with orphans through Sozo
Children (www.sozochildren.org). I was very excited, but was also somewhat
anxious and nervous. But we serve an awesome God! Tascha and I were in the zone
while serving in Uganda! I remember thinking to myself, "Man, this is what
I was made to do. This is what she was made to do. This is what we were created
to do together!" It was on this trip that God called us to full time
missions.
Once we got back to Alabama (where
we lived at the time), we began to pray and seek the Lords guidance. We applied
to World Gospel Mission (who I went to Kenya through in 2008), went to Marion,
Indiana for our interview, and were accepted in December 2012 to the missionary disciple (MD) program and were
assigned to Kenya! We are excited to see what God is going to do in us and
through us in this new chapter of our lives!
