Our Desire

​      We believe that God has called us to go to the Philippines. This is something that God has been putting on our hearts for a number of years. In 2016, during a missions trip there, a local Filipino pastor pulled Tommy aside and said, "Tom, would you consider coming here to the Philippines full-time?" From that time, we started praying about this. We told the Lord we are willing to go if that's where He wants us, just please make it clear. 

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"Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."

Psalms 37:4 (KJV)

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     What started happening is that our desires started to change. God increased our burden for the Philippines and the people there. We loved seeing all that God was doing in the lives of the young people there. Slowly, over time, without even talking about it to each other, God started changing our hearts and our desires for what we want in this life. 
     It was a couple weeks after we came home from another missions trip (although this one was to Germany 2019), that we looked at each other and we both knew. Our hearts were already in the Philippines. We want to go & we want God to be pleased. 
     We did not go to school to become missionaries, so this has been a very humbling experience for us, as there are times where we feel completely inadequate! But in the Bible, when David became king, God said He was the one who "took [David] out of the sheepfolds." That's something that God did. David was just doing the work that he was supposed to be doing. And that's what happened with us! God did the calling and He did the work in our lives. ​

The Next Steps 

     This is a hard thing to answer. Right now, we have more questions that answers. Prior to the current pandemic, we received many calls from Pastors around the country to schedule Missions Conferences and presentations, but these have been postponed and rescheduled. We remain encouraged as all of them, and even others, have continued to reach out to us during this time! 
     Our candidacy school for BIMI is scheduled for June 2020, although that is touch-and-go too. Right now we are bunkered down in quarantine, along with most of the world, waiting patiently to get back into the swing of things. We will continue to keep everyone posted, so please subscribe to our newsletters. There is so much we'd like to share with you! To God be the glory!