Sailing through Our Final Year: Trusting God’s Course

From our weekend at Sea (as you can see!) 🌊⚓️🇬🇧

For those following our family over the last 2.5 years, you’re all too aware we’ve been fundraising our way through Oxford, had a baby girl, walked our little boy through a big surgery, and then Sarah went deaf, and then Sarah had an operation opening her left ear. And it’s been a party.

Now that we’ve come this far—YEAR THREE OF THREE 🥳—we’re stronger, more resilient, and all the more confident in God’s providence through His people who’ve seen us through this whole thing.

I’m excited to say it’s almost time to start the long-anticipated “Church Search.” So far, I’ve had a few communities reach out, including two churches looking for campus pastors, two associate pastor requests, and two lead pastor positions. Potential assignments range from CT, MD, IL, MN, and WA, to CA. These are really exciting times!

All that said, I still need to keep hyperfocused on the task at hand both academic and fundraising. For kicks, here’s my dissertation title—sorry for all the academic words in there! You can track our fundraising progress at the funding link.

Dissertation title: “How might the eschatological ecclesiology argued for in N. T. Wright’s ’Signs of the New Creation’ recalibrate the aims of spiritual formation in broadly Evangelical churches in Portland, Oregon?”

27,000 words to go! Prayers coveted as we finish our time here and discern where the Lord might lead us in the season to come!