Little update on future plans

Well, we met with Rodney Howell from our church last night. He’s in charge of a lot of the missions work with our church & has been to India a few times on mission trips. He had some GREAT advice & words of wisdom and lots of encouragement for us. We’ll be planning more meetings with some other people who have been to India as well as a couple of just got back from a year long mission trip there (Steven & Stacy).

Anyhow, what we know so far is that we’re still India-bound. We know we’re going for a short trip this Winter (probably December for 10ish days). As of right now we’re still praying & seeking God’s will for what the future holds for us. We’re planning on an eventual move to India and staying there for a couple/few years, but we don’t know much beyond that. It may even turn out that God just wants us to visit, come back, & really connect with the missions going on in India from here. We don’t know, but we’re preparing for the biggest change that could happen just in case that is what God calls us to.

It’s all very exciting. Melisa & I had to finally tell each other to stop talking because we were both lying in bed @ 11:00 last night still talking about details & ideas & things we learned by talking with Rodney.

Continue to pray for God’s guidance & wisdom in our lives & with our upcoming decisions. It’s already been hard as we’ve started to down-size & sell off all the stuff we thought we’d fill another house with some day. We’re really working toward simplifying out lives & possessions & it’s very counter-culture. It’s hard being the odd-man out, but I suppose that’s what I’m going to have to get used to if we’re going to live in a foreign culture.