I love how God works! He's always bringing people into your life at certain times for certain reasons. I'm so excited to be engaged and to be marrying this man that God has placed in my life! Josh has moved down from Oklahoma, after 23.5 hours of driving and is now staying at the missionary apartment at our church. We're looking at getting married in August and hopefully getting to the field in January. After attending a friend's wedding, we checked out a venue, The Sandbar Restaurant, in Anna Maria Island, FL for the wedding. We took one look at it and fell in love with it. It's right on the beach and we'd be able to have the beach wedding we've been dreaming of. We'll hopefully be booking it soon and getting a definite date down!
On my trip to Oklahoma, Josh and I went to the zoo with Aaron, his brother, and Stacey, his sister-in-law, the day after we got engaged. It was great getting to spend time with them again. We drove down to Dallas and Josh graduated
from Southwestern and everything went well. Then, I came back to Orlando and the service at Life Assembly went great! Pastor Duke Matlock said they would give me a love offering of $500 and pledge $100 in monthly support which is wonderful news!
I'm obviously not leaving at the end of May, but after Josh and I get married, we will finish raising our budgets and then head to El Salvador for a few years to learn from Brother Don and Mrs. Terri. We know we need to learn about missions and gain the experience from the organization they already have and we both have an incredible heart for El Salvador and the children and youth there. Josh is already an ordained minister and we know we want to be missionaries and spend all of our days sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and sharing the love of our Lord with all the world. We don't know exactly where we'll go after El Salvador, but we already have some opportunities in Brazil and the Ukraine and there are several other places that God has laid on our hearts to go one day.We'll both be leaving at the end of this month to go to Uruguay on a two week mission trip with his home church Capital Hill Assembly of God in Oklahoma City. We're both thrilled for the opportunity to work in a new country we've never been to before and it will be our first experience doing missions together. I've never been to South America and I'm excited to experience it! If you would like to donate towards this trip, please send checks to:
Patti Sears
909 SW 12th
Moore, OK 73160
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