May 2019 Paul and I decided to travel to journey to Thailand for two weeks to see the work there. God surprised us and laid the work at North Cotes (the missionary training centre) on our hearts. Our kids stayed with Noms parents and we went excited to see what God was going to say. The time in Thailand was incredible and Paul and I could imagine working there and even met people that we could imagine being our co-workers but God was working something else in our hearts. We decided we weren’t going to talk about what God was saying or revealing to us until the trip was finished. Towards the end of our trip we decided to go to a beach for a few days to read pray and listen. One day Paul asked me what God was revealing to me and I said, “no you need to speak first, I always speak first”. Paul explained how he loved Thailand and could imagine working there but feels like God is calling us to serve in England at North Cotes training centre. I was shocked, I had exactly the same thoughts! When we started talking about the ministries we could imagine helping I’m out in we both had the exact same challenge - volunteering work and taking people who are interested in missions on mission trips! The Lord had spoken. We returned to England and spoke with our leadership in North Cotes. We had no idea if these ministries would be what they would have us do but after they asked us and we explained that we both had the same thought separate from one another. One of the leadership team was so shocked, had tears in his eyes and asked if we knew this was needed. We had no idea but the lady who had been the volunteer coordinator before had mentioned to leadership that she didn’t feel like she could do it anymore and had even mentioned us as people to take over! We couldn’t believe it - God couldn’t have been clearer.
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