Well… I’m glad you you asked! It was amazing! I got to see some of the places where the Lord first made an impact on my life and was privileged to see people I hadn’t seen in years. The Lord is doing amazing things in Uganda through the different people and ministries Joel and I got to visit on our 2 week trip in June, but before I give you more details, I want to take you back to when I first visited Uganda in 2009. ...

By the time you read this, I’ll be in Uganda, Africa! I’m very excited to be visiting 3 of our missionary families. The Kanyikes, the Harrises and the Anikus, all of whom are serving in Uganda. Please be praying as pastor Joel and I. Our goal is to visit our missionaries and spend time with them, hangout with their families, see what works they are doing, and help meet any needs they may have. This is something that we love to do and our missionaries have expressed so much gratitude when people from the states come and visit them. It’s so exciting and I will be sharing an update when we get back! ...

Hello friends and family! Thank you so much for taking the time to read our newsletter and for partnering with us in the Gospel! It’s a huge blessing to know that we have people who love us and care to hear about what God is doing in and through our lives. We’re excited to share where the Lord has us right now and what we are doing at SGWM (Saving Grace World Missions), at CCSG (Calvary Chapel Saving Grace), and in our home as our family continues to grow. ...

I beg your forgiveness for the delinquency of this update. Life has been crazy and there’s so much to share! Since May… Since my last update in May we have had some extremely happy news that fast tracked some things we had been praying about for quite a while; we found out that I am pregnant with our second child! We had been praying for several months about God’s timing for us to move back down to Southern California and the Lord spoke to Isaac that we would be back in SoCal before our next baby came. When we learned the happy news, it caused us to pray all the more fervently and God made it clear that we would be transitioning back down in August/September. ...

This month the weather has vacillated between spring sunshine and winter storms. The daffodils turned their bright faces toward the sun only to shortly thereafter be pressed back down to the earth by an icy blanket of snow. Many forms of life are beginning to stir and shake off the winter but the snow keeps coming, trying to postpone and forestall the inevitable spring that is beginning to dawn. It is sad to feel the first sweet caresses of warmer days, only to be jostled back into the icy cold, BUT, we see the good it’s doing. The lake is steadily rising as the snow deposits melt and flow headlong into it, the hills are green as the snow releases its icy grip and the sunshine beckons the grasses toward its light, the flowers are blooming in gardens and abandoned trails alike. Though the spring feels suppressed by the winter that doesn’t know when to quit, we know that spring is here and will only harken in warmer and sunnier days. ...

Sometimes updates are easy to write and other times they aren’t. This is one of those not-so-easy updates simply because this month was made up of the everyday, ordinary things rather than the highlights. Youth Group Thank you for your prayers for the youth group that we started on January 24th! After our first meeting it was apparent that we aren’t ready to start yet. With one student and three leaders, it hardly felt like your typical youth group and everyone felt a little out of place. We are continuing to pray that God would work in our midst and give us wisdom in how to faithfully minister to the student He has placed in the ministry as we wait for more to come. ...

Happy new year! I pray that you all had a blessed holiday season full of family, friends, and fellowship with the Lord. God has been working in all of our lives and I am excited to share how He has been working here in Truckee. Young Adults Things are starting to take off in our young adults group! Last Friday we had 4 young adults attend with one regular out because of work and two new people who wanted to come but just weren’t able to make it work. This Friday we will have a young woman join us who visited our church last Sunday and she will be bringing her boyfriend. We could potentially cram 10 people into our small space tomorrow night! Please pray that God would move in our midst and that He’d be greatly magnified as we fellowship and draw near to Him. ...

October flew by! What a whirlwind it’s been to move up to Truckee and settle into a new routine. God has been so faithful! Our new home is perfect for our family and such a blessing. We’re nestled in the woods right across the street from Donner Lake in a quaint little one bedroom cabin. I have a full kitchen now, which I love and a very large attic space for storage. God blessed us with a beautiful couch, a new vacuum, and a TV to help make our house “home.” We’ve already started hosting the young adults group on our home on Friday nights and that has been a huge blessing. ...

We are called to be a people of faith. It’s that simple. Hebrews tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Think about that for a minute- impossible to please God without faith! Jesus told His disciples that they only needed faith the size of a mustard seed in order to say to the mountain, “move from here to there” and it would move (Matthew 17:20). How incredible that our salvation hinges upon a little thing called faith and that our daily Christian life is supposed to be saturated with it. ...