The entire OM Ireland team came out to wave us goodbye and pray over us!
So happy to start this new "journey" with Jacco.
Here we go!
The night before we loaded "all my belongings"...it only took 20 minutes!
Saying goodbyes to good friends and my last Sunday service at Cherith Baptist.
Our new home! Here is the kitchen where I have cooked several meals for my honey! Jacco has let me move in straight away...while he is staying in family's house down the street. The house belonged to him and another roommie who just left. So I really do feel that this is my home!
Our little kitchen...we treated ourselves and bought a new toaster!!!
Our cozy living room. J made a fire in the fireplace this past week.
A verse very near and dear to us!
Our "borrowed" furniture...but we are thankful!
Me and J-man with our first tree!
This past week marks a new pinpoint in my journey of life as I moved to Carlisle England. As many of you know I will be getting married to a wonderful and loving man named Jacco and we will both be serving within our international coordinating team...located in Carlisle...hence the reason for me moving. It was a week filled with mixed emotions...sad goodbyes of people who left a special impression on me in Ireland...especially my roomie and teammates. But it was also filled with excitement of setting up our new home. Even though most of our furniture is borrowed until time we are able to purchase our own...it still feels like "our home". A verse that kept reappearing through songs and during my quite time was "Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!" So that is what I am doing...rejoicing in all the the Lord has and will do for me. He is so good!
People have asked me..."So will you still be working with OM? Do we continue supporting you as we have since you are not completing your 2 years fully in Ireland?" The answer to both of these questions is YES and YES. I will be continuing to serve with our organization (OM)...just transitioning to another field...to support my husband's work in multi-media and helping to develop a Conference and Events Services ministry...Lord willing. I am very excited for this move because it will give me the opportunity to work with many more OM fields around the world to help equip and encourage the saints in the area of Conferences and Events (an area I have been working in for the past 9 years). I love that I get to use my practical skills to serve Him and I pray that will continue for many more years to come!
The support is still very much a need and VERY MUCH appreciated! We are 100% faith based supported. Please continue to give as you have...by sending in your donations to OM USA C/O Mary Wallace or you may simply give on line. Me and my future husband will be on furlough in the States January 1-March 28, 2009...to one..get married...and two...Lord willing....be able to share with you what God has been doing this past year in the ministry of Ireland...which I have been serving, but also to share with you about our future ministry together in England and many other areas in the world that we will have the privilege of serving. Please pray that the Lord will draw those around us to encourage us, pray over us, and financially support us to further His kingdom in this new open door. Below are some ways that you can help meet our needs.
MONTHLY FINANCIAL SUPPORT for Jacco and I:
How to give on line:
https://usa.om.org/GiveOnline
*Click on the option "give to a field through a person"
*Then proceed to complete the blank fields
PERSONAL NEEDS
We are in the midst of setting up our home as well as paying for a wedding. If you would like to give towards a particular need that we have...please email me at mary.wallace08@yahoo.com
Items needed to set up our home here in England and wedding related:
- Bed frame and mattress
- Couch
- Kitchen Table
- Vacuum Cleaner or "Hoover" as they call it here
- Shelves
- Shipping expenses (some of my things will be shipped from the States to England)
- Driver's Licence expenses for Mary to get a UK DL. (About $1500 believe it or not!)
- Donations towards wedding expenses
- Donations towards or a donated place to stay for honeymoon (as of right now we do not have a honeymoon sorted)
Something that needs no money...PRAYER PRAYER PRAYER...please! We need this first and foremost as we start our new lives together and continue to serve Him! As always...thank you for allowing us to "get to do what we do for Him!"
