Prayer Update

Hey everyone,
I want to give you all a little update on our current status. I know many of you are wondering what's next for the Borens. As are we ha!

We're officially debriefed. Trek-X was so gracious to help us transition back to America. We spent 2 weeks meeting with various people involved in missions. We discussed positive things that happened in our 2 years overseas, negative things, expectations about moving back to the States and how to guard ourselves from those and communicate openly about them, and future plans and goals. It was a lot to process but the discussions were very helpful for us.
At the end of our debriefing, we attended the Trek-X Launch ceremony. All phases of Trek-X were present: graduates, 2nd year overseas, 1st year overseas, 2nd year in Nashville, and newcomer! It was a very exciting time. We thoroughly enjoyed worshiping together with this group of people and commissioning the next set of missionaries. We're thankful to be part of such a great organization- it's like our second family.

 

We're taking the first couple weeks of September to intentionally pray about our near future. I sense a great deal of urgency seeing that we have to be out of the temporary apartment we are in by September 30 (at the latest), however we really don't want to rush into anything. A lot of things look good and seem really cool, but good & cool isn't exactly what we're aiming for. We want to actively wait on God to tell us what to do. We expect that He will.  

So I'm asking you to join us these next 2 weeks in praying over our future. Here are a few specific things you can pray for:

• Do we raise our support full-time and work among unreached people groups in Nashville, or raise half our support and Josh get a part-time job, or Josh finds a typical 8-5 and we work among the refugees in our spare time?? (We are certain that we want to work and live among refugees coming from countries with little access to the Gospel- there are lots of these in Nashville) 
• Does God want us to move somewhere else entirely? We don't foresee this, but want to be open to anything. 
• We need a home by October. 

In addition to prayers about our future plans, please pray for practical things that come with living in America, such as getting insurance on everything, taking Isaiah to the pediatrician for a well-baby check-up, seeing a dentist- because we haven't been in about 2 years and we both think we have cavities :(.

In addition to the above we're trying to reconnect with old friends as well as build a community of new friends here in Nashville (given that we end up here). We've attended a wonderful Gospel-centered church that has welcomed us so warmly and met some other young couples with small children there. God has been gracious. We plan, also, to speak to a couple churches once we get settled. If your church would like to hear about the ministry going on in Maria Aurora, Philippines, please let us know!

Thanks for reading!