In THREE (3!) days the Discipleship Training School will begin! We have spent the past two weeks in staff training for the DTS preparing for this exact moment and it's finally here! Students are also beginning to trickle in. It's exciting times!
This is just a short update to let you know how God has been answering our prayers as well as some things we continue to fight in prayer for. We appreciate you standing with us in prayer, and as always if you have any questions please let us know!
Housing
This has been a prayer on our heart
pretty much since arriving to Florida 9 months ago. We knew that God
was calling us to this place but had no idea how we were going to house
ourselves, let alone the students God was beginning to call.
In the last couple months we have spent hours and hours praying over student housing, and, while we were all confident that God would provide- things were looking bleak. We went away on Christmas break knowing the school was just a month away and still we had no leads for housing.
When we were in Germany this past August one of the speakers at the conference said "God is never late- He just misses a lot of opportunities to be early", that quote stuck out and has proven true in this process of looking for student housing.
We have students beginning to arrive today and just YESTERDAY we got the thumbs up on a second house for students to live in. It's incredible how God has moved in this area. From going from absolutely nothing and joking that we're glad the church has such a large front yard so we could use it for tents for the students to live in, to actually having two homes for the students that are 2 miles away from the church and just a couple blocks away from each other... in one of the safest parts of Sarasota!
God is moving, and while His timing is different from our own; we wanted housing nailed down months ago. He had a different plan and it was a plan that gives Him so much glory!
So thank-you, thank-you for joining us in prayer over this these past few months. We know, and can see that things DO happen when we pray! God hears the cries of His children and answers, maybe not in our timing, but in a way that He is glorified through it all.
In the last couple months we have spent hours and hours praying over student housing, and, while we were all confident that God would provide- things were looking bleak. We went away on Christmas break knowing the school was just a month away and still we had no leads for housing.
When we were in Germany this past August one of the speakers at the conference said "God is never late- He just misses a lot of opportunities to be early", that quote stuck out and has proven true in this process of looking for student housing.
We have students beginning to arrive today and just YESTERDAY we got the thumbs up on a second house for students to live in. It's incredible how God has moved in this area. From going from absolutely nothing and joking that we're glad the church has such a large front yard so we could use it for tents for the students to live in, to actually having two homes for the students that are 2 miles away from the church and just a couple blocks away from each other... in one of the safest parts of Sarasota!
God is moving, and while His timing is different from our own; we wanted housing nailed down months ago. He had a different plan and it was a plan that gives Him so much glory!
So thank-you, thank-you for joining us in prayer over this these past few months. We know, and can see that things DO happen when we pray! God hears the cries of His children and answers, maybe not in our timing, but in a way that He is glorified through it all.
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