Katie McGrew: Seeing Jesus

We sent this letter out at the end of March. Thank you to everyone who has faithfully been praying for us and encouraging us in this process! We can't do this alone and we are so thankful that we have a loving family and so many amazing friends, willing to listen and share in this with us. March 25, 2010 Dear Friends & Family, We ’ re moving to Nicaragua! Did I really just write that? June 29 we will board a plane to spend 6 months, to a year, to … . living in Nicaragua, serving with Forward Edge International. We have learned to never say never and always keep our hands open to what God wants to take away and what He will give us next; after all He is the Author and Perfecter of our faith. If He truly has written the story of our lives then that is the story we want to live daily ~ we are walking closer to Him than ever before: personally, in our marriage, raising our children, moment by moment. There have been many steps leading us to this decision and there are ma...

Happy Easter! I have little time before going to my mom and dads and thought, maybe this is my opportunity to start writing again. Since my last entry........... oh my! Last fall I thought it was possible that, maybe, I would never go to Nicaragua again. Dwight missed us so much last summer and my greatest priority was to strengthen our marriage. I believe that our marriage is our greatest ministry and if that wasn't my first priority then who am I to go and share any where else. God gave us great opportunity to spend time together! We started reading together and Fridays were our "date day", since Dwight isn't working Fridays. The five of us went to Disneyland at the beginning of November and had a great 5 days! Before going to Disneyland I told a friend that I thought things were going to change at Dwight's work when we came home. I had no reason to think this only a nudge in my heart from God. Sure enough, the day we came home Dwight was told to consider the p...