Moving Ahead

Many in life have experienced what moving is like. For the most part it is a hassle and often difficult. From packing boxes, lifting furniture, and getting it all tucked away nicely, just to unpack and rearrange it all again. For most, moving can encompass several aspects and emotions in life. It can be exciting, scary, or sometimes even a bit overwhelming. However at the end of the long hard day, the desire is just to be home and settled in a place of rest. For the team of The Way, the past few months as well as the next 6 months will feel this way tremendously. After much prayer, fasting, and surveying the land of MY, we now have clear discernment as to what location we will plant in, and continue making disciples. In order to get there we will have to move 2 more times. Once to a major city, and then 3 months (hopefully) up into the northern mountainous regions. All these aspects of moving hinge upon visas, and the future registration of our company. With that being said, we know that the road ahead will be hard, as well as uncomfortable. We will have to leave the beautiful comforts of Northern Thailand, and step across the point of no return. We knew these days were coming, and the anticipation has always been here. It seems that we have just settled into a life rhythm after 8 months, and now it’s time to go. We found friends, and figured things out a bit, but soon we will uproot, and redo it all over again, plus once more before we are “home”. At times this path seems impossible, and non progressive. The truth is we have made more progress than we ever could have hoped for so far. We are at least 1 year ahead of our original timelines, and at the same time have made more connections, partnerships, and a grew a solid team that we could have never done on our own. The Lord has been faithful, even when our hearts weren’t. At the end of the day, regardless if we even make it to our final destination, the goal has always been to make disciples and grow closer to the Lord in the process. Although the future road looks rough and impossible, our true desire is not to be settled and comfortable, but to just be home eternally with the Father. In light of the future glory that will be revealed to us, we strive to press forward in the race that has been set before us...