Where to next? 2013

Sometimes we get the control of when seasons end and other times they just come on us unexpectedly.
The church where we had been doing MTS needed to hire a assistant minister and so finances were going to be to tight to have Pip on to complete her second year of MTS.

Isn't this a great verse: Psalm 139 vs 16: 
your eyes saw my unformed body.All the days ordained for mewere written in your book
before one of them came to be.

With Mike already planning to go to bible college in 2013 in actually worked to our benefit to try out a new church as this is a requirement for his study.
Pip went to a MTS conference and was reminded by an announcement of a interesting sermon prep school run by a church.
After many chats and wanting to make the "right desicion" (we as a couple don't seem to make up our minds or get mutal peace on a situation fast) Pip declined the offer of fulltime work for the sermon school 2 mornings a week. She then got offered a scholarship for the school and her work offered her 4 days work on the other days! We then found a great church for Mike to do student ministry called Naramburn Anglican church. Then after dinner at our friends house in Surry Hills we managed to land their rental as they were moving in 2013. 

Who could ever imagine that God had organised a new house, new church, new ways to learn about him and financial support..we also ended up getting a new car but thats a story for another day.

All that to say God is good.

Love Pip and Mike 

MTS 2011-2013

We have to be honest we were not pro MTS at all.
Yes it was good for really young people who were keen to serve or perhaps people who were unsure of if ministry was for them..or maybe it was for people who liked living below the line for a whole 2 years but we weren't any of the above!

2010? aka Putting it off

There are plenty of reasons people put off study but what is a good one?
For us it was spending time together as newly weds. A great verse which warmed us to this idea was: 

"If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married." - Deut 24:5 But if any one knows Mike you will know he is keen to share Jesus any where any time and so the option of MTS was a good fit for us as a couple going forward. so we packed up our little flat and headed for a two year apprenticeship at a sea side home to do a ministry apprenticeship.