06.20.07

Reforming?

Posted in Reforming, Blogroll at 3:03 pm by fosteringhearts

Wow, this is an exciting way to learn and communicate with fellow believers.  How did I get here…on a narrow path? 

Here’s the story.

I have a pentecostal heritage.  My father was saved at a revival after watching his disabled leg grow and become whole.  My mother followed in conversion shortly there after.  They exemplified Christ to us day and out.  I grew up in an Assemblies of God church.(AOG)

My husband has a holiness heritage.  His mother was raised in a holiness church and turned away from that when he was a child.  He came to know Christ after visiting a AOG church and decided to become a minister.

We met at a AOG college, married, and became youth pastors.  After many discouraging experiences in ministry, we were left wondering if this is what God had in mind for pastors and churches.  We left our position and moved to be closer to family and sort out some of our questions.  We bought our first home started raising our two boys and I began to long for more children.  This was physically impossible, so I put it aside until one day I heard of the great need for Christian foster parents.

My husband and I signed up for classes and began fostering orphans.  After the first girl came to our door, broken and hurting…we knew, this is ministry.  I held her tiny frame, and rocked her sobbing body to sleep, as we both sat silently with tears rolling down our faces.  That was four years ago and now we have two beautiful daughters that we have adopted through fostering.

I began homeschooling with Veritas Press and found books by the Wilsons.  We started listening to them on-line.  We have learned more in the last few months concerning biblical living and doctrine than all of our years of church, Sunday school, and college combined.  Sad but true.  We only blame ourselves, but see a deficiency with in our previous fellowship in the areas of education and family. 

We attended a conference on the family last weekend and were blown away by the teaching and fellowship.  We felt challenged and encouraged,  rather than guilt and loneliness.  We felt at home for the first time in a long time.

So that’s where we are…still seeking.

There aren’t any CRE churches close by, there is a Reformed Presb. church in our city, but we are unsure about the differences btw the two.

Any advice?

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