The Beginning of Our Blogging Journey

Hello and welcome to our blog!! I, Marci, will be doing the blogging as Jeff still uses the hunt and peck typing method, but I will be writing mainly about our experiences with Vision Onward as Jeff tells me about them. This will be the first of hopefully many exciting blogs to come. God is moving in amazing ways each and every day and we have finally decided it was time to keep a journal and allow others in on the awesome journey. We could probably post an insanely long blog just to catch everyone up from these past five months, but instead we will just give you a quick recap.

Jeff began feeling God pulling him away from the "business world" and into the "ministry world" in about March or April of this year. It happened quickly and Jeff immediately felt a peace about getting out of all the businesses and being able to devote his full time and energy to doing what God was calling him to do. He rallied some close friends who helped us come up with a name, a mission statement, a website, and a kick-off event. This was the beginning of Vision Onward and we would like to thank all of our friends for their support, wisdom and advice through the beginning. So, here we are in August with our kick-off event, Walk This Way 2007, quickly approaching and we have been watching people come out of the woodwork to help out in one way or another for this event. We want to give a HUGE thank you to Bryan Hindman who has been extremely instrumental in the planning and promoting of Walk This Way and will continue to be throughout the next couple of weeks.

Over the past couple of months, we have also received a generous bus donation from On the Rock Ministries, which we plan to gut and turn into a ministry bus called Ya' Way. It will be similiar to The Big Red Bus in Colorado, which you can view at http://www.bigredbus.org/index.htm. If you want more details on the mission of Vision Onward, you can view our website at http://www.visiononward.org/ .

We would also like to give a big THANK YOU to Chris Collins, who God has blessed with a tremendous gift for designing. He has designed our logo, the T-shirts for Walk This Way, and our website. He has amazing talents. Thanks Chris- - -it has all been GREAT!!

Jeff has met with so many people and we are excited at how God is stirring the hearts of many to reach out to the poor and vulnerable and show them the hope we have in Christ. God is so good and our heart's desire is for Him to use us for His glory. We are humbled every day at how BIG our God is and how amazing are His ways. We have been in complete awe at how He has been orchestrating this entire process. I cannot tell you how many times I have had goose bumps in the past few months by something incredible that God has done. Thank you God- - -we love, honor and adore YOU!!!!

Things have been going so well that we are anxiously awaiting for the spiritual warfare to kick in. We know Satan is planning and scheming for ways to pull us away from what God is calling us to do. There have been some minor things come up, but nothing major yet. So, please pray for us to be alert and prepared when the time for spiritual battle comes upon us.

We love you all and hope you enjoy our new BLOG!!