Feburary Update

Hello everyone,

Wow what an incredible time in our lives, it has been so busy and rewarding.

We ended last month with the benefit concert that we hosted for our ministry, what a blessing we received. We are so blessed with so many people around us that care for us but also care for the ministry and it shows with their giving and sacrifice of time and efforts to love people and share the gospel.

I left the country on the 27th to head to the Northwest Territory with Jake Ayers and David Hahn, we flew into Edmonton and drove 1500 miles north of there to Deline and then back down and east to go back north to Yellowknife and then back to Edmonton to fly home. altogether we drove around 3500 miles on Ice roads to get to these remote places to minister to various pastors and missionaries to encourage them and to find out how we can help them.

I think this mission trip probably blessed me in a very unique way from other mission trips I have been on. I was encouraged but also very challenged. Challenged to wonder and think about what we are doing as Christians to accomplish the Great Commission. There are over 7,000 people groups in the world that are still unreached. we have gotten so overwhelmed with the comforts of our own homes and churches that we have lost the desire to be uncomfortable and put ourselves on the front lines of reaching the unreached and loving the unloved. When Jesus came, He came to seek out the lost, and He put himself with them, dined with them and loved them. I see how far our church has come from that. we are no longer concerned with what brings glory to God but rather what is most convenient to me right now. However, I do see a generation rising up to take the place of the generations that have been before us. I see a progression of people in our church moving past our agendas through denominations, race and so many other things that I believe have slowed the church from growing and reaching as to what Christ intended His bride to look like.

I challenge you my friends as I am challenged, to allow God to be bigger in your lives. Look past all the stains that our culture has to see the beautiful work of God in our daily lives and have an eternal perspective on life.

Now to update you on where our family is.

We leave two weeks from today (Feb 23rd) to make our way toward SD. Tomorrow we will be in two different local churches and next weekend we will be in MS again.

when we leave the 23rd we will head to Nashville to be at a church that Sunday morning and that Sunday night we will be at a church in Memphis. We will be there until that Thursday and then arrive in Pineridge on that Friday March 1st.

once we get there we are having to move out of the parsonage into another house. we knew that this was a possibility but didn't think it would be this soon.

This is the busiest we have ever been and we covet your prayers. That God would go before us and that we would learn to embrace His grace each day. Pray for Jacob and Leah as well that their hearts would always lean on Jesus as their sufficiency that they would learn that from Amanda and I as we seek the Lord for provision.

God is so good, I cant explain it, I can only say you just have to take a bite and try it for yourself.

we are so blessed and so needy all at the same time and I thank God for each of you.

Learning to serve the Lord in all we do,

Matt, Amanda, Jacob and Leah

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