What’s it like to send your 18 year old across the sea? Let me be the first to say that it can be an awesome feeling, because you know they are going to serve the Lord, but at the same time it can be nerve racking. This time has been harder because she has always gone for 10 days and…
Have you ever had that “thud” feeling but excited at the same time? Well, that happened to Michael and I on November 8th. The director of the missions that Abigail has been with asked me to call her and we had no idea what was going on. To make a long story short Helen and Chuck were asking our blessing…
So much has happened since the last time I wrote. So…I’m going to do a quick update here and catch you up on what has happened this past year. My hopes are to keep this updated a lot more in the coming days. January 3, 2017, once again we were back at the Springfield Airport seeing our daughter off. This…
October 21, 2016, found us on the road again bags packed and this time headed for Arkansas. Abigail went on the first trip that WMA took to Argentina. As always this was an emotional roller coaster for all of us. Excitement and facing the unknown and praying for God to bless each of the team and get everyone there safely.…
I can remember watching on our cell phone the progress of the plane making across the world back to Chicago. I will NEVER forget seeing that little blue plane on the screen show it had landed and she was back on US soil. Then within an hour I got a text, we are in Chicago and eating. Talk about relief,…
I will never forget that hug goodbye, her wave and then her text that they were boarding. Then a few hours later the text again that they were boarding the plane in Chicago and it would be a long flight through the night. I think I was awake most of the time she was in the air praying that God’s…
This is a special post that I am doing to let everyone know some new developments. This weekend I will continue from where I left off last week. Do to lack of funds coming in for Abigail’s trip she had planned to do in May to Argentina, we have taken it as a sign that God said “no” this time.…
As I said in my last post Abigail found WMA at the SHEM convention at the ripe age of 15. What I didn’t say was when she told me she wanted to go, where she wanted to go! She informed me she wanted to go to Iraq and I informed her NO she WASN’T. Of course she knew that would…
This is my first post about what it is like to be the mother of a teen missionary. I will never forget the day that I heard the words come from our 15 yr old daughter, “Mother I know what I want to do!” We were at the annual SHEM convention for homeschoolers and I was sitting at our booth.…