Thanksgiving Break!

     Hi everyone! We hope and pray you are all doing well in this season! Right now we are in Marsing, Idaho spending Thanksgiving week with Rachael's parents. We arrived last Friday and will return to Colorado on Saturday to finish preparations for the start of the School of Biblical Studies(SBS) in January. We just finished teaching how to inductively study the Bible as well as a Bible overview in the Discipleship Training School(DTS) We were so blessed to teach in the school for 10 weeks and it is so exciting to see kids get excited about the Bible and missions and devoting their lives to God and taking the Gospel to those who have not heard.
     Currently we have 14 students for SBS. We are so humbled by how God is using us and so excited for what He is going to do in the lives of these students as they spend this next season exploring God's word and receiving the revelation and understanding of who God is and who they are in Him.
     We will be heading east to Deleware to be with Rachael's family for Christmas and we will be able to see Scott's family in upstate New York for a few days as well and then returning to Colorado and starting the school on January 6. It's almost here!!!
     The most common theme that keeps coming up is that this is God's school this is encouraging and humbling. Encouraging in that this school is in God's hands and not ours. It's for His glory. Humbling in that we are called by God to be part of His redemptive story in people's lives and in the nations. 1st Corinthians 3:5-9 says, 

⁵What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. ⁷So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. ⁹For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. 

     The context behind this passage is that Paul is addressing the believers of Corinth who are divided over alligning themselves with different ministers of gospel because that was common in this culture. People would say I follow this teacher or this philosopher and this is what is happening in the church with people following Paul or Apollos and the focus being taken off of God. Paul is telling them, that it is in God that you will grow, not us, you belong to God, not us. Paul continually directs the people to God. Paul could have taken all the credit for his work among the Corinthians but he refused to and walked in humility, so that the people's focus would be a God centered focus and out of that would come unity.

     We all have a part to play in God's story, but ultimately it is all in God's hands. It is His story, not ours. This SBS is God's and that is so encouraging as we embark on this excitng journey as we partner with Him, and we are expectant of what God is going to do in and through the students.

God Bless,

Scott and Rach

     

Prayer Requests:

• Continued unity among our staff.
• Protection from the enemy and all his schemes to discourage, distract, or disunify
• For our focus to be on Jesus, in our personal lives, our marriage, and the school
• For the beginning of the school and the students

The Beginning of our Journey in Colorado Springs

Welcome to our first blog post!  We are excited for you to join the journey with us in our ministry and lives in Colorado Springs.  We want you to be able to stay connected to the journey of our lives in missions!  Take a look at our Fall Newsletter to see what has been happening so far!