Us

As we look back over the past few months and years, it is so incredibly humbling to stand here and witness what the Lord has done and is doing in and through us.  There are so many times that we have surreal moments about what our life and where we are today.

We think it might be good for some of you to get to know us a bit.  Many of you that read our blog know us personally and have for some time.  However, most of you don't know us at all.  And here you are reading what we post everyday...maybe even applying what we share in the hopes that it will somehow change your marriage.  We will attempt to share some things about who we are and what makes us like this.

Both of us grew up in Christian homes...strong ones, too.  We were in full-time pastoral ministry for 10 years.  We were both home-schooled and are doing so with our own children.  We have allowed the Father to plan our family. 

We believe in Jesus, not because that was what we were taught as children but because we have witnessed His loving grace and mercy for ourselves.  We are pretty normal on the outside.  We love to have people over in our home and just hang out and do life with them.

We never try to push our beliefs on others or force them to believe like we do.  We let the life that we live be our testimony.  We are the same in public as we are in private.  What we write here on this blog is how we live our life.  We are not perfect, by no means.  But, we are constantly trying to live a more committed life before God.

We love to grill outdoors.  We love to spend time with our kids.   Sometimes, its playing the Wii (we had a Wii Mario marathon during the winter months....3 days of lounging in the living room playing!) or family movie night, other times its taking a hike in the hills together or going fishing.  We love our friends.  We try to be the friends that we want to have.  We do our best to be there for those that need us...be it a phone call, a text, or coffee and a conversation.

We love the real....real people, real relationships, real life.  We have a hard time relating to the fake....fake people, fake relationships, fake drama.  We would rather have an honest and frank conversation than to just to have a surface, superficial friendship.

We believe in standing for marriage because we know it works.  We keep ourselves low before God and near Him because we know that is the ONLY way we can ever hope to have any kind of success.  We believe and ground our life on the fact that God is BIGGER than anything or anyone.  We believe that there is nothing He cannot do.  We have learned (or should we say that we are still learning) to stay out of His way while He is working.

We love each other more now than when we got married.  We no longer look to the other to be our source for life.  We are stronger now after the storm.  We have been battle-tested and know each other's strengths and weaknesses; therefore, we know when we need to step it up and be there for the other. 

Really, we are normal.  We love to make each other laugh and can poke fun at ourselves easily.  We are each other's best friend.  We love to hang out with each other.

We are pastors without a church but God has seen fit to bring people to us that need pastoring.  So, that is what we will do as long as He allows.  This is some of who we are and some of what makes us tick.

Josh and Serena