This post is a continuation of a previous post.  Please click the following link to read, Part I: One way we travel... together.

I haven't blogged about our church planting path as I'd originally planned... and like so many other things I've found in my life, with all the new experiences added to my life, added to all the previous expectations and demands, I just didn't have the time if I was still to maintain any kind of "normal" in our home.  Now, please don't misunderstand, our home has been anything BUT normal over the past year and half!  tee hee... but I found myself needing more time to process our life and circumstances than I thought I would, and now that we're again moving forward, I find myself able to "breathe" and look forward to the future again.

When I look back, I'm overwhelmed by EVERYTHING we've went through... good and bad.  We've been blessed over and over again and we have shed more tears of sadness and helplessness than ever before... and through it all, God was there pressing us on to the future.

In time, I will share more stories, but for now, I just had to catch you up and share our wonderful and exciting news as we move closer toward planting a church!  We will be planting in Detroit Lakes, MN!  Detroit Lakes, or "D.L.", is about 65 miles from where we're currently living and has over 8,000 people, with an estimated 30,000 people in the summer due to its seasonal residents and tourists.

Soon, we will be moving (August 30th) and leaving the house I've brought every baby home to... to bring our next baby home to a temporary rental home in December... 

Soon, we will leave the town I've lived in since I was in 1st grade, that Mike has lived in for over 20 years to go to an unfamiliar city where we will rely on God to lead us to new connections and friends, as well as a place for us to live more permanently (currently we have a rental "cottage" we will be staying in September through May)...

Soon, we will leave the 5 year old church plant in Brainerd of over 700 people, to pray for a launch team of 40 people who begin as strangers and become friends through Christ...

Soon, we will see what God has planned for us all along as we move into our future trusting Him to provide...

We have MANY adjustments ahead, but God hasn't promised "easy"... and so with the beginning stages of our path laid out (again... we are moving toward our future and a church plant that God desires  to be in Detroit Lakes...

...and the thought scares us to death and excites us beyond our wildest dreams, because we know we cannot do this on own own, but only THROUGH Him...

...and it draws us nearer to Him knowing we are once again, in unfamiliar territory, unable to know what will be next on this new path chosen for us by Him...

...but  we are still willing to go where He leads...

...one way we continue to travel... together...

...to tell others they are not "too far gone" to be forgiven... not too bad to be unloved... and that God wants THEM... period.