Update Blog!

First and foremost, Bryce and I need to apologize for our lack of updates! Please forgive our awful communication skills. Since we have left the Philippines and returned to Oregon, we kept saying we will write our newsletter and blog after this happens or that happens. Well, here we are now and entirely too much time has passed since we have communicated with our faith-filled partners in mission. So I will start the update from there.

Upon returning to Oregon, we found ourselves in the lovely town of Sublimity, Oregon. We attempted to find ways to remain faithful to our charisms of serving the poor and evangelizing while we were back. Due to the season of summer and the impending birth of our fifth child, not many of the opportunities worked out. We were blessed to share about our experiences with my women’s bible study, a young adults gathering and with a group of young, married Catholics. We also participated in two Vacation Bible Schools, and worked as a family at our local food share sorting and packing the food. Josephine Marie was born on July 9th (9 days late)! She weighed in at 9 lbs 7 oz, and was 22 inches long! She has been such a blessing to our family!

Three weeks after she was born, we decided to do our family retreat and begin discerning our next step. God made Himself abundantly clear that our next step was to slow down! We were not ready for the mission field and not ready to discern! We did discern that a trip to Louisiana was a good first step and were able to visit before Intake 2016 began. It was a great blessing to be with our community and to include them in our discernment process. Bryce was also able to help them get ready for Intake by working on a trailer for kids ministry. During his prayer time, Bryce was given a scripture that pointed to Spain. After much prayer and discernment individually, as a family and with our directors, we have decided to pursue Cordoba, Spain as our next mission post. We have contacted their Bishop and are awaiting his response. We are now living in Louisiana, helping out at Family Missions Company home-base and are eagerly anticipating our next mission post. Our time in the Philippines was so blessed and we loved the people, the community and our ministries! We will miss all of them; however this journey belongs to God. Please pray for us as we seek to know God’s will for our lives and that we have the courage to keep saying yes!    

St. Luke, St. Theresa, St. Lawrence, & St. Dominic 

going to the All Saints' Day party

Thank you again for all your prayers, emotional and financial support during this journey of living and sharing God’s love with the people of the world. May God bless you all abundantly!