I’m Moving to Vermont

Well the title is true,  I am moving to Vermont.

It still all seems so surreal and it is all so very sudden.  My world has turned upside down, and while I should be running around freaking out I sit here in complete peace.

It all started a few months ago…

I love where I am.  I am close to my family and my three best friends.  I have moved out of my parents house.  I get to tell people about Jesus and it’s my job.  I make enough to provide for myself and save a bit.  I even have my own bathroom that I don’t have to share!

Still, something has been stirring in me.  A feeling that my time where I am might be over soon, but where to go I didn’t know.  So, I began to pray and ask God to show me what was next.  Things like graduate school close to home, or maybe a job in Greenville at the most.

Then one thursday, a day I don’t even go to the church for work,  I walk into my boss Nate’s Office.   An office which I never go to, we always work somewhere else.  He shuts the door and says, “Now you are in trouble.”  Of course my heart dropped.  That is not a good sentence to hear.

We had talked the previous day on the church roof, like I said we work other places.  We talked about my desire for ministry and where I was in the job now.  Apparently, Nate had been thinking about what I said and where a good fit for me would be.  He gave God an ultimatum thursday morning that he would not bring up Vermont (Ill explain Vermont shortly) unless I walked into his office unprovoked.

Well I walked in and he brought up Vermont.  Immediately my heart sank.  I had thought about Vermont but that is far away, and cold, and my family is not there, neither are my best friends, and I may not have my own bathroom, and did I say its cold.

I left and began to freak out.  I knew this may be what God had begun preparing me for.  I took a long drive to freak out some more and pray.

During that day and the following days I prayed, and read through scripture, and looked for ways out.  Every prayer gave me peace, every scripture I read screamed at me to go, and I found no way out.

No way out of Vermont.

So, what is happening in Vermont?  Over this past year God has laid Wilmington Vermont on Ben and Tiffany Prestons hearts.  (Watch this) They have been preparing over this year to go and plant a church in the least churched state in America.

I have been talking with Ben, learning the vision and hope for the community.  Our first meeting I wished I would be uncomfortable with Ben, or the vision and ideas for Wilmington.  I wasn’t  at all, just more confirmed that God is pointing me somewhere else.

There have been so many things pointing toward this move and nothing saying no.

I prayed for the next thing, this is what I get.  Ask and you will receive, scripture rings true again.

Well my friends, there is so much to tell and I will share in time.

For now be praying for the Prestons, the other families going, and myself.  I am so excited, God has already been moving in amazing ways.  I can’t even imagine what is next.

Oh yea, and ill probably be leaving in January.

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