Over the last few months, there have been some common questions people have asked in relation to our going to Kenya. We thought we would share them with everyone.

When are you going to move? Lord willing we are planning on moving to Kenya the end of July to early August.

When is your training? We will be at MTI (Mission Training International) from Feb 8 until March 6. The purpose of this training, is to prepare us for many of the things we will face on the mission field.

How are your boys doing? God blessed us with two very energetic boys that love adventure. They are very excited to play with bugs, see lions, and make new friends. Their hearts are also being shifted towards the kids of Naomi’s Village and they ask lots of questions about living in Kenya. They are starting to understand more about our purpose in going. Both boys have at times prayed for the kids in Kenya, unprompted by us.

How is support raising going? Thanks to all of you who have partnered with us so far, God has raised 65% of our monthly support. This is a huge praise! If you have wanted to partner with us monthly, but have not done so yet, there is a link at the bottom of this page. We would be grateful for your partnership!

What are you going to do with your house and cars? Sell them! There is no plan B. We are moving forward with long term service in mind.

In 1519 Hernán Cortés and 600 Spaniards landed 11 ships and 16 horses on the shores of Mexico in hopes of conquering it. For more than 600 years, other men had set out, with more resources then Cortés had, to do exactly what he was attempting to do. Each of these men had failed. So Cortés decided to ingrain something in the minds of his men in order to spur them on.

He woke them up one morning, prior to fighting, and yelled “Burn the Boats”! As the men gazed across the water they saw their boats go up in flames. There was no plan B, they could not go back, they could not retreat and run away. When danger persisted and there seemed no way out, they had to keep fighting forward.

This story was relayed to me, from a friend who heard it in a sermon from a local pastor. From the day I heard it, I thought it described what our attitude needed to be towards Africa. We can’t look back. God has called us to move forward. We are getting rid of everything that doesn’t fit in airplane containers and marching on.

While we are not going to conquer anything in Africa, we are going with a mission that we know will be tough. We will be stretched in ways we have not been before. We will experience loss and suffering like never before and so it’s important that our eyes remain on Christ. We must remind ourselves that nothing can separate us from the Love of Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:37-39

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.