Since I just posted about a MILLION Hope updates, I thought I'd throw one in about life outside of Hope, just to be sure that everyone realizes we do a little more than ooh and aah over our child for multiple hours a day....sometimes.
Things have been ch-ch-ch-changing around the Terndrup house as of late. Josh recently accepted a job at our church, Antioch Norman, as the new Young Adult Zone Pastor. Which inadvertently means I accepted the job along with him. We were asked to pray about the position several months ago, so Josh and I spend about a month praying through it and asking the Lord what he had for us next.
If you've been around us for more than 5 minutes, you should know that our hearts BURN to be in the nations of the world [as soon as possible]. But, as we sought the Lord and surrendered our will [yet again] to him, we felt like he was saying that our season was not yet finished in Norman, Oklahoma and that he is still in the process of equipping and training us for the road ahead (not that that ever ends). In our hearts, we are so confident that this was the right decision, and that God is still fashioning and preparing us for a life of ministry, whether that takes us overseas or has us stateside at times.
In the meantime, we couldn't be more stoked about stepping into our new role. The Kennedy's, our amazing friends and former young adult zone pastors, laid an incredible foundation in the young adults at Antioch that we humbly get to build upon. What a privilege! We have some amazing, fiery, world-changing leaders that we get to walk with and partner to see both Norman and the ends of the earth touched and transformed by the love of God. We are PUMPED!
It is a super exciting season that we are stepping into, but also a very busy season. Josh has 2 months left as a Captain in the Air Force, so he is juggling both responsibilities right now. Yikes! This means that our nights (and my days) are filled with discipleship, meeting with leaders, casting vision, planning events, and dreaming about all the Lord wants to accomplish through this group. We are so thankful that God's grace is always more than enough for what he calls you to do, so although we are tired in the natural, we feel so filled up in the spiritual!
Just this past weekend we had a leadership training weekend with all our church's leadership teams. It was a great time of envisioning for the road ahead and laying the practical foundation for seeing that fulfilled. We had about 40 young adult leaders there that we got to dream with about all that God wants to do in our city in the coming weeks and months. I mean, who gets to do that as a job?!?
Even just today I heard wind of a girl getting saved in a young adult lifegroup last night! God is on the move, and we couldn't be more stoked about the season ahead.
We are so thankful that God 'forced' us to move to a little town called Norman, Oklahoma 4 years ago. It was quite unexpected, but we would not trade it for anything. His ways are definitely higher than our ways. And for that, we are so [so] grateful.
Things have been ch-ch-ch-changing around the Terndrup house as of late. Josh recently accepted a job at our church, Antioch Norman, as the new Young Adult Zone Pastor. Which inadvertently means I accepted the job along with him. We were asked to pray about the position several months ago, so Josh and I spend about a month praying through it and asking the Lord what he had for us next.
If you've been around us for more than 5 minutes, you should know that our hearts BURN to be in the nations of the world [as soon as possible]. But, as we sought the Lord and surrendered our will [yet again] to him, we felt like he was saying that our season was not yet finished in Norman, Oklahoma and that he is still in the process of equipping and training us for the road ahead (not that that ever ends). In our hearts, we are so confident that this was the right decision, and that God is still fashioning and preparing us for a life of ministry, whether that takes us overseas or has us stateside at times.
In the meantime, we couldn't be more stoked about stepping into our new role. The Kennedy's, our amazing friends and former young adult zone pastors, laid an incredible foundation in the young adults at Antioch that we humbly get to build upon. What a privilege! We have some amazing, fiery, world-changing leaders that we get to walk with and partner to see both Norman and the ends of the earth touched and transformed by the love of God. We are PUMPED!
It is a super exciting season that we are stepping into, but also a very busy season. Josh has 2 months left as a Captain in the Air Force, so he is juggling both responsibilities right now. Yikes! This means that our nights (and my days) are filled with discipleship, meeting with leaders, casting vision, planning events, and dreaming about all the Lord wants to accomplish through this group. We are so thankful that God's grace is always more than enough for what he calls you to do, so although we are tired in the natural, we feel so filled up in the spiritual!
Just this past weekend we had a leadership training weekend with all our church's leadership teams. It was a great time of envisioning for the road ahead and laying the practical foundation for seeing that fulfilled. We had about 40 young adult leaders there that we got to dream with about all that God wants to do in our city in the coming weeks and months. I mean, who gets to do that as a job?!?
Even just today I heard wind of a girl getting saved in a young adult lifegroup last night! God is on the move, and we couldn't be more stoked about the season ahead.
We are so thankful that God 'forced' us to move to a little town called Norman, Oklahoma 4 years ago. It was quite unexpected, but we would not trade it for anything. His ways are definitely higher than our ways. And for that, we are so [so] grateful.
Goodnight to all.
