As I think back over the past 4 years and I look more intently at events and the result of those events, I am amazed at how everything has come together. Let me trace back some of these events for you:

• Down a broken road, I was led to this church.
• Down a broken road, Rebekah was led to the same church.
• We met during a time in our lives when we were finding peace, joy, and ourselves after many years of pain and struggle.
• We married in March of 2007.
• 9 months later we went to Honduras.
• 10 months later we went Nicaragua.
• 1 month later God told us to move to Nicaragua.
• Our lives now have purpose and meaning and it is all because of God’s work in us.

But what we didn’t know was that while God was at work in our lives during this time, he was also at work in the life of a single mother of 2 in Nicaragua.

After arriving in Nicaragua in August 2009, we met Natalia. Rebekah began to build up a relationship with her and this led her to help Natalia start a sewing business to help her support her family. We decided to film her story and share it with our friends and supporters with the intentions of raising some money to help finance her business. After talking to her further, I was shown how God had woven our paths together. Here are some of the events that led her to where she is now:

• Down a broken road, I was led to this church.
• God began to show me who I was and how much he loved me.
• God brought a Christian woman named Brittany into my life and she help me and discipled me.
• God brought another Christian woman named Annie into my life and she helped me as well and discipled me.
• And now God has brought another Christian woman named Rebekah into my life and she is helping me start a business and she disciples me as well.
• My life now has purpose and meaning and it is all because of God’s work in me.

This left me wondering whether all this has happened by chance or by divine appointment?

As these three lives walked down broken roads seeking their identities, God was working in the midst of their brokenness in order to have those paths cross so that he would be glorified.

And for that I am eternally grateful…