The start of our journey!

Thank you all for all the help to load up our truck!

Monday August 26th, 2013

Hello to all of our friends and family!

This is my first time doing a blog, so if it looks a little weird or confusing, please give me some time to get used to it and figure it out.:)

Some of you that may be reading this may not know why we moved to Tampa or that we even moved.  Let me give you a quick overview of the journey that God has taken our family in the last year or so.  In March of 2012, Mark got a burden for the city of Tampa, Florida.  We asked our church body to pray with us for direction from the Lord to confirm that burden.  Through much prayer, God's word, open doors, trust, faith, wise counsel, waiting, waiting and more waiting, God revealed to our family in December of 2012 that He wanted us to come and make disciples in Tampa, Florida.  

On August 4th, 2013 our church family at Midtown Baptist Temple prayed over us and sent us out to come to make disciples, train up leaders and teach the Word of God.  We know that we are not alone on this mission, our church family is supporting us in prayer and love.  Thanks MBT family!  We love you and miss you!

On August 5th, 2013 our family started the 20 hour drive in a 26' Penske moving truck, driven by an excellent driver, Mark Schaffer.  I know he has a heavy foot at times, but the way he maneuver this truck was impressing to me! ;)  I just drove our little honda pilot, nothing exciting!  After a couple of stops we made it to our new place in Palm Harbor, Fl on Wednesday August 7th.  Thanks to God's prompting in my sister, Sandra, we had help to unload all of our stuff.  Thanks Yoders, Gabriela and Abuelita for all your hard work and sweat!  There is always a drip of sweat here in the sunshine state!

We got everything unpacked, set up and made it feel like home!  The kids started school last week.  We were all a little nervous, but everything went smooth! 

We have been able to make some contact with some international students by doing airport pick ups.  We are planning to go to a dinner with all the international students next week.  Excited to see how God will use us with them!

Also, we are starting our first bible study tomorrow night with a couple.  We are very excited about that!

God is good and He is Faithful! His mercy endureth forever!  We have a lot to be thankful for and we also have a lot to trust him for!

Prayer requests for right now will be:

This is our new home in Palm Harbor,Fl

1.  Bible study starting tomorrow
2. Friendships for our kids
3. Direction for Mark's job
4. Trusting God for 4 more bible studies by the end of the year.

That is it for now!  Thank you all for praying for us and loving us.  I will do my best to keep you all up to date on our journey!

God is Faithful!

The Schaffers