how God has blessed me

for seven years i've been wanting to say this...

i'm moving to czech!

this is a picture of my team from the first time i did an English camp in 2004. after that experience i was determined to move to czech.

and my desire to move there hasn't always been prevalent. i remember one such time specifically

at one point when i was student teaching in prague in 2009. i was loving living there, and i wanted to eventually move back. i went to visit a missionary friend and we visited a castle

(as you do in czech). we sat and prayed for a bit, and he prayed that if it was God's will for me to move there that i would just feel it in my bones. it made me kind of sad because i didn't feel such a strong desire and i wanted to. make no mistake: i felt a huge burden for czech and really did feel that God would have me back there at some point. but at that time i wanted to be there but didn't feel that God did.

this summer i returned for another English camp, and i knew when i returned that it was

time to start praying about going back there full time. my best friend, Tessa (on the right from the English camp we did together in 2006), and i kind of started praying one night that God would move us there together. and the next day, Tessa had an email waiting in her inbox asking if she and i would like to move to czech and run a school.

the ironic part is that we had been asked to do this before. and at that point, the timing was bad for Tessa, and i was so afraid of raising support that i didn't even really consider it.

but this is completely God. his timing, his plan. everything keeps coming together. this next year before we move isn't going to go as smoothly as these last two months have.

so please pray with us: that we'll be fixed on why God has called us to czech right now, and that we would feel burdened for the czechs we'll be encountering once we're there.

thank you God for granting me this desire in your perfect timing, seven years later.