The Future

   In our organization one of the most frequently asked questions is " What are you going to do next?" And after returning to Taiwan and finishing up this last DTS, the question has come up for us. What are we going to be doing next? When we moved back to our YWAM community a little over a year and half ago we planned on only staying for 2-3 years to prepare for our "next step".  For a while we weren't sure what that "next step" was. We had a few ideas, but nothing for sure. So, recently Eliah and I have been able to take some time to pray together and seek the Lord for direction for our future and we feel the Lord has given us direction for the near future.
    As much as we love living in our mission community and working with training schools here, we've always known the call the Lord has put on our hearts was to go out and pioneer and go where others aren't going.  There is a county in Taiwan that is one of the least churched counties in the country. And it also happens to have the largest surfing scene on the island. For many years we've seen Yilan county as a strategic place to do surf ministry and though we wanted to move there in the past, we never felt the Lord open that door for us.  But now we feel that door is opening and the Lord is leading us to move there and start a new ministry.  We see the Lords timing because now this location also happens to be one of three "target locations" that our YWAM base has been recently focusing on to see new ministries planted.
    We don't have all the details yet, but we are planning on pioneering a surfers DTS there. This may be the first one in Asia.  Our hearts is to see more Taiwanese locals come to believe Jesus, as well as, see more surfers come to know Jesus.  We want to see them discipled and growing in the Lord, to go back into their communities and be a witness, even being sent out to missions outside of Taiwan. Pretty exciting!!
   So we are working on putting a team together. There are already some people interested in going.  As far as timing goes we are hoping to go in 2017. We are excited to go, but we don't want to rush anything and want to make sure we have a good team and have time to prepare as much as we could in this time.
So this is our next step and we believe this will be a big one for us. We ask for your prayers for us as a family. For our marriage and for our amazing children and the changes they have gone through following the Lord with us. Its such an adventure following Jesus!!
   We will give updates on this as they come. Blessings!