where to from here…
Friday, April 16, 2010
So its about time for a very irregular update.
Steve is (still) quite close to getting his Private Pilot License. Thanks to bad weather, bad back and various weddings, Steve hasn’t had many lessons up in the air this year. Thankfully he can study regardless of the weather and thats why I’m writing the blog this time - he is busy working his brain.
When Steve gets his PPL, we will need to decide if we should continue down the same path ie. Steve gets his Commercial Pilots License, does some other practical training and we both end up supporting and working with missionaries that are in remote locations.
God made it quite clear to us that we were not to study at New Tribes Mission this year (He cancelled the course). We are seeking his wisdom as to whether that means:
- a) we keep going and do the training with NTM in a couple of years after Steve has done his flight/mechanical training
- b) we keep going and serve in a similar way with another organisation
- c) something completely different that we haven’t even thought of yet, but is obvious to God as He already knows.
Last week our church was visited by some folk from Mission Aviation Fellowship. These are the folk people assume we are wanting to serve with when we say Steve is hoping to support missionaries through flight. So when Steve started to seriously consider training with MAF I felt like he was an englishman that just turned french, or a vegan that was asking for a steak.
We looked further into what they did and how they trained and we thought it was a real option - even financially. ....until we checked the finances. Turns out that its going to be even harder than we thought for Steve to finish his flying training, especially if we are blessed with kids (which we’d love to sooner rather than later).
Allow me to paint the picture with some more multiple choices. We can pick from the following:
- a) Continue to live and work and save as we are currently. Steve flys/trains on the weekend, and potentially finishes his CPL mid/late 2012. (if we have a child before the completion date, training will be put on hold indefinitely due to losing my income)
- b) Save up for a year and move to MAF to begin training in 2011. I work to keep us eating which again means we can’t have a child before 2012. (this would be training only; we don’t have plans to join MAF)
- c) Steve will complete his PPL and stop there. We will serve our Lord some other way.
- d) none of the above because God knows better.
We are blogging this because we would love for our brother and sisters in Christ to pray with us as we try to decide with God wisdom which path to take.
“The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.” Proverbs 16:1
If you feel like you have some insight or wisdom to share, please feel free.
“Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.” Proverbs 15:22
Us on holidays having fun with friends in Brisbane:
(actually poetically written by skye)
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