How it all started

I remember the moment the seed was planted
It was an evening when I was a young teen, I was watching a movie. I don't remember the name of it, but it was about a young teen boy who was taken in by this  little tiny old lady, he tried to steal from her, he didn't know how to accept her love. She should have been scared of him, but she wasn't. She did the right thing, she started to take care of him, accept him, love him, teach him, SHOW him the right way. He didn't understand why, I don't think she udnerstood why. But they learned from one another and in the end, saved each other from a lonely life.

God stired something in me that night, gave me a desire to do the same thing that that old lady did.

Its never been the driving desire in my life, always a back thought. Anytime I see a news peice or a story about people taking in teens, showing them a healthy family, teaching them what no one else would, I'm stired. God always has said "another time in your life, not now"

Yesterday God said "Now is the time"
Justin and I were sitting in Sunday school and our teacher challanged us to pray, to put our far fetched dreams, our burried desires out before God and see what he will do.Will he say no? Or will he make huge things happen?
We were stired again. Justin and I looked at eachother after class and said "we need to talk!" We left the kids at church and played hookie from service, where we both said we felt God was saying its time.

We "think" that the state patrol job that Justin is applying for will be the way back to the area, the way to be in a place where we can afford a house with room for more "members" where we have land and a farm and the space to teach skills.

We don't know the details. We only see taking in young boys. Showing them what a family is, teaching what it means to be real man, and teaching skills that are becoming so lost. Gardening, canning, animal care, anything and everthing we can. Skills that are becoming a way of the past due to technology, but that still need to be passed on.
And so, we are asking you to start praying for us, that God will show us what to do and what his plan is.
This isn't the start of the journey, but it is where the rubber hits the road, this is where my faith needs to go from words to actions, where we step beyond our family and see what great and amazing things God has in store. Beyond the normal and everyday and into the hard, gritty and hopefully amazing work of God.