Our Call to Action

We are nothing special. Who are we that God could use us? These are the lies my wife and I believed individually for years, as we tried to make sense of our own faiths, faiths that have been in development through 30 years of experiences. There is no real reason for this delay besides the fact that God was using our own uncertainty and feelings of unworthiness to prepare us for now and this journey we want to partake in. We have never been afraid of the gospel of Jesus and have always wanted to express our faith to others and now we finally have a plan that we can see God working through us to use us to that end. Where did this all begin, where are we now, and where will we be going?

Where it all began could be traced back to when God first called us into His saving grace through Jesus. This is covered in our testimonies but I would like to trace it back to 2021 when Caiti and I found ourselves individually reawakened to the gospel in our own lives, having taken a detour in our lives, feeling brought low by the enemy and the lies he tells. This reawakening came from simple spiritual disciplines of reading God’s Word and Prayer. This, unbeknownst to either one of us, was God’s initial preparation for our call into His plan for our lives. The Call became more evident when we took a vacation to Michigan and Brown City Camp where we experienced the Holy Spirit’s pull during a revival where God impressed upon us that Jesus’ sacrifice does not end with salvation but is a continual work something that we both knew but that became real and vivid. At this moment we knew we needed to go. Where do we go? That is what the question became. We both knew the omnipotence and omniscience of God would carry us anywhere He wills but listening to His voice became the difficult aspect as we tried to sort out our own impatience and where we were supposed to go. We have felt for the last year a calling for the lost that are in our area and around the United States, but it has been a struggle for us to share our faith instead relaying on the Holy Spirit to open up conversations with people to show them the love of Jesus. At first, we thought a move to Detroit and a mission field there would be the correct answer but that was not where God was calling us at the time. Every time we thought it was time to move God said wait and pray which is not something that comes easy for someone so impatient as me when I feel driven and hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, I want to just act to throw myself into the mission. Caiti and I both know that God is going to be there to provide so it makes it much easier and yet we knew He was saying wait and pray collect yourselves and rely on me to show you where. Then it happened on July 13, 2022, what started out as a comment “Hey, what do you think about moving into a van?” became a transformative movement that God created in our lives. The Holy Spirit kept laying this idea on our lives and it has transformed into a firm plan to reach the lost across this continent.  

This is where we are now—in a place where we are ready to go out into North America to start off this journey and go to the lost where it is hard to reach them, out in the unnoticed part of America, and find those who need the gospel. This is expanding into a currently unreached population as they do not have people around them as Christian examples to show them the way of Christ. Many of these people who live in vans live in a world that is often disconnected from the rest of American culture. Most of all, God has told us to go to them and to create a ministry that works in these communities and shows them what true love, the love of Christ, really means. I cannot picture myself going overseas right now when the need here is so great as Americans and those that come in the country do not really even know who Jesus is. I am saddened when we refuse to reach people around us with the gospel in love. Caiti and I feel a calling to give them services and create church where these “vanlifers” are. We might not be conventional missionaries going out into a foreign missionary field, but we are going out into a cross-cultural context and trying to reach people who have been unreached in their present context.