Train me, God, to walk straight
then I'll follow your true path.
Put me together, one heart and mind
then, undivided, I'll worship in joyful fear.
- Psalm 86:11 (MSG)

Hello Everyone! It’s hard to believe that 14 days from now we will be leaving this fine city of San Francisco and heading to Europe! God has been busily working in each individual and we’ve seen Him moving in ways that can only be described as indescribable!

When Kassi and I started this new adventure in life we expected to see God show up but it’s been on a much larger scale than we could even imagine. I Love it when He does that! (And He does it quite often) God has brought so much healing and restoration these past few months and we’ve all grown so close together. Kassi and I have also grown closer together but not in the way we originally thought we would! When you are focused on pouring into God, he pours back into you, and then you are able to pour out to the ones you love. Not Vice Versa. We can’t pour into others and then pour into God. There is no true fulfillment or love in that. Love God, Love Yourself, and then you can Love Others! If I’m not pouring into and truly loving God and pursuing a relationship with Him, I can’t truly love others around me. If we love God we love ourselves. We are the mirrored image(s) of our Father in Heaven. On a good day it’s easy for me love God, love myself, and my neighbor, but it’s on those bad days when I have to choose to love, that is true love. It seems pretty easy when you see it on paper but to walk it our everyday, builds character, discipline, perseverance, and strengthens the relationships around us! It’s through that outpouring to God that Kassi and I are able to pour true love back into each other. I Love That! I spent way too much time doing things backwards!

Anyways… back to the countdown. We praise God and Thank You all for the support you have given us through your prayers and through giving financially and we are almost there! We wanted to give you all a quick update and let you know that God to this point, has raised $14,000 dollars which means our schooling is paid for but not our outreach costs! The only thing left that we need to raise money for are our plane tickets for outreach. We are $800 dollars away from being paid-in-full and it is an amazing feeling! God is so good and faithful! We just wanted to update you because we know we’re getting close to leaving and people have been asking us to update them on how much we still need.  Also, there are other students still short on money, so please pray and if God leads you to give, everything will go to paying school fees and airline flights for those short. Thank You again for sacrificing and supporting us in this new adventure. We look forward to sharing about the lives God has touched throughout the world through the support of our friends, our family, and our God!

 

Love You All!

Going-Away Party

January 19th, 2011 | Posted by Joshua in Answers | Financial | Support | Updates - (0 Comments)

Let me start off by saying WOW… And a BIG Thank You to our family and friends who came out to support Kassi and I and the journey God has called us on. God raised $700 Sunday night and we’re moving closer to the end goal of covering our outreach costs! Again, it truly was a blessing to see everyone and we are grateful for your selfless giving and prayers. We know some of you couldn’t make it but we appreciate your thoughts and words of encouragement! I know, as a man it is very humbling to have to rely on others for support/survival, but I also believe that it’s also God’s way of blessing us and you at the same time so Thank You. I would like to leave you with a few verses that have been on my heart the past few weeks.

God Bless,

Josh and Kassi

3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of  death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2:3-8