Missions Isn't Our Thing

To elaborate a bit on what we talked about in the video I posted below...

Can you pick us out? Wow, we were so young then!

About 10 or 12 years ago, Zack was serving as a youth pastor in a new, small church plant. It was one of those positions that just kind of fell into our laps. We both had full time jobs, but we enjoyed spending evenings and weekends ministering to kids in middle school, high school, and college. Looking back, that experience provided us many lessons in church planting, church decision-making, operating a ministry, and many other important areas. We also served on the worship team, and as with most start-up's, did whatever we could to help.

One area where we didn't really even attempt to gain experience was missions. When we wanted to get the youth involved in missions, Zack approached his friend Jeff. Jeff was extremely mission-minded, and Zack asked if he'd be willing to lead the students on a local mission project, because "missions isn't our thing."

In 2007, while in Ukraine to adopt William, God began to open our eyes to the ignorance of that statement.

Thankfully, Jeff is humble & kind. He gladly helped us with the missions project. We learned a lot from him that day. In fact, over the years, we've learned so much from him AND his wife. They play a big part in the story of how we got where we are now.