Uncharted Territory

When initially praying and thinking about Lifelines, we decided if we could pick what college campus to work on it would be, NAU (Northern Arizona University).  Kaleb graduated from there and we both wanted to stay on the west coast, so it just "made sense"......and that was that.
As the weeks passed, we continued our busy lives preparing and getting things together here in Nor Cal, not thinking - or talking for that matter - much more about any other state but AZ.

Well, about a couple weeks before Thanksgiving, I started to think about Maine....it seemed random to me but I noticed that it started to come to mind a lot.  I tried to push the thoughts away and would justify this by telling myself, "why am I thinking about Maine...we want to be in Arizona, we should be there."  I look back now and see that God was trying to prepare me ;).  Interestingly enough....around this same time, Kaleb had been thinking the same thoughts - Maine kept coming to his mind too, but he would push the thoughts away for the same reasons I did.

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this ;) ....yes, HR called us the week before Thanksgiving and asked us to pray about serving with Lifelines in...you guessed it, Maine.  Long story short, we found out that out of all the campuses HR believes that we would receive the best training on the Maine campus.  They have a strong team and are the original campus for the ministry.  They are also one of the busiest campuses and are in need of more staff to help. 

During our conversation with HR, we realized that we'd BOTH been thinking about Maine....and had both chosen to ignore it, haha.  It immediately hit us that this wasn't just a random coincidence, but GOD and He'd been trying to get our attention...how selfish we'd been.  HR was going to give us some time to pray about going there and then we were to get back to them.

I think we both just kinda knew after that phone conversation Maine was where we were supposed to go....and although we were in all honesty disappointed about not going to AZ - we still had a peace.  We'd been saying the whole time since applying for staff that we wanted to go wherever GOD wanted us to go!  We truly want that...but selfishly desired that place to be AZ ;).  Arizona was comfortable for us.....but as a lot of us know, God doesn't like to always keep you comfortable ;), haha.

After much prayer and consideration, we believe we have confirmation....we have a PEACE....and we have a tremendous JOY and excitement when thinking about going to serve with Lifelines in Maine!  In fact, the more we think about it, pray about it and talk about it - the more excited we get!  We talked with HR again recently and have given our official decision - that we would love to serve in Maine!

It isn't technically official until we receive our commissioning papers at the end of our training, but as of right now....Maine is where it looks like we'll be headed and we couldn't be happier! :)

Check out Lifelines at the University of Maine:
http://lifelinesumaine.com/