God's Plan

That was 2007, and then I went again in Jan of 2008 not thinking much about becoming a missionary. I did think maybe it was time when the Weeks left Haiti at the end of 2007, but I never heard from God so I didn’t put much thought into it.
All of that changed during the summer of 2009. I was reading the monthly newsletter that Dr Vic Binkly sent out. He was the director of project help. He announced that he had cancer and he finished the newsletter by saying “God has a plan for a person or persons here in Haiti. If you think that is you…” Instantly I could here that voice He said “You told me you would you would go, now is the time. God had already met my first condition, so I knew it was time to tell Theresa. So after I read it I went to find her to tell her my feelings about going to Haiti. Yes I got the answer I thought I would get. She said “no way are we moving our kids to Haiti. Maybe when we get older we will go.” So I told her about my past events and persuaded her to at least let me send an email to the Church of God General Conference. She suggested that we call Pastor Dave and talk with him. But before we called him we told Miranda to come into the bedroom we needed ask her something. She is our oldest daughter ten years old. We asked her what she thought about moving to Haiti and becoming missionaries. Her first word were “I will go wherever God wants me to go!” I thought to myself wow this world would be a different place if we all had that attitude. Then we called Pastor Dave and talked with him for a long time. He told us that a both of us must feel called or it will be almost impossible for us to succeed as missionaries. I agreed 100% and told him about my little talk with God three years before and the deal I made with God. I knew God would fulfill both of my conditions if he wanted us there.
We then sent an email to Don Dennison who is in charge of the mission field for CGGCM. (Church of God General Conference Missions) We told him we would like to get some information about the Haitian missionary job. We told him we were interested but were not ready to summit an application for the job. We told him when we got back from Haiti in Jan 2010 we would make our decision.
About that same time my friend Dave Flaugh and I felt lead to have a revival at his barn. I was going to speak the first night of the revival. I didn’t know what I should talk about. I knew if I let it up to God, he would show me what He wanted me speak about. I was lying in bed one night and Mt 4:20 keep popping into my head. I didn’t know the verse but I figured that was what God wanted me to preach about. I didn’t look it up until Dave called me and asked what I was going to preach about. When he asked me Mt 4:20 popped into my head again. This time I went and read the verse. “At once they left their nets and followed Him.” While I was preparing my notes I came to relies that God intended this sermon for me. I just shared it with the people who came to the revival. I thought am I willing to drop my life here in the states and follow Jesus Christ, just like the first disciples did. To me that was more proof that God wanted us to go to Haiti. He wanted us to “Follow Him”.