Change of Plans. (?!?!)

I think I’ve talked with a lot of you in the past few days, but I figure it’s high time to drop a blog about my really recent and kind of giant change of plans.

So, last week—after a lot of counsel and prayer—I resigned from Jesus Film and Campus Crusade.

I know, you’re probably thinking, “What in the world, Andi?!?!”

Welp, here’s the dealio: I’m staying home to see about this boy.

Like I said, I met a wonderful fella here who loves the Lord. And who, apparently, doesn’t mind having me around. So I’m going to just go ahead and do that—be around.

And see what God has for me.

Or—well—us.

And, yeah, that might be a bit crazy.

But, surprisingly, you all have been less surprised than I expected. In fact, that a good number of you apparently saw this coming well before I did alarms me.

Am I so hardheaded?

To be sure, getting to this point, to make this call, did take a pretty impressive working by the Holy Spirit in my heart. And it didn’t come without a fair share of trashing and squirming about. But finally I was forced to rip my eyes off the Jesus Film and focus them instead on Jesus himself—exchange my plans for His.

And so I resigned.

I’m settling into La Salle-Peru, settling into this new path God has for me, settling into trusting the Lord to give me the grace to serve Him faithfully, even here.

Through this whole thing, I’ve fallen more in love with the fact that God is so good as to allow His people to learn more about His character at every turn in life.

I’ve learned that sometimes He will lead you so far enough down one path, just to show you it’s not the way He wants you to go. He’ll test your faithfulness and willingness in one direction, only to turn you around and bless your steps in another direction.

And, I’m just amazed that my God is so sovereign in men’s hearts as to be able to take the thing I wanted least—yea, even my worst fear: to be tripped up on the way to Jesus Film, to be “stuck” at home for any significant amount of time —and to change it into the thing I want most, the thing that’s best for me. And turn that same “unwanted” thing into an answer to focused, fervent prayer.

Honestly, how thrilling, how praiseworthy, how awesome is that? Gets me pretty excited about my God—my Abba, Father.

So, that’s it. That’s my news.

Sometime really soon I’ll get out my last prayer letter, to the same effect. (Probably this blog, nearly to the letter, to be honest.) And I’ll get you the details of my resignation (official sometime in December, as I understand it) and of what to do if you’re on my financial team and all that good stuff.