Big adventures!

Hello all my wonderful friends and family!


So, in my last post I mentioned how Nathan and I are starting a school to study the bible in-depth.
The school is nine months long, and then there is an optional outreach to a location that we haven't chosen yet.

This is a wonderful opportunity that was really just dropped in our lap, and we have really felt the Lord tell us this is his will and he has big plans through it.

I am writing today to ask you to help be a part of this adventure with us. Nathan and I need to raise 9,000.00 for this school. I know that number seems insane, but it's for a 9 month long school.

I have seen God work bigger money miracles than this, I am not worried at all that he will come through again. And time and time again he has helped through you wonderful people in our lives.


I prayed alot about weather or not we should do this school. I asked God to help give my heart peace and to confirm that this was his will. He did so, very obviously as well. I feel that the Lord has told me that this is going to be giving us the tools that we need for our next step. This is his preparation for us.

I am asking you again to partner with us and to be key players in our lives in missions. I have never been able to do it without you guys. Another thing I want to remind you, is that it's never been one person giving a huge sum of money, but rather, many of my friends giving what they could, no matter how small.


Together we can do the impossible!!!


Help us further the tools we have to take his love, word, and the gospel to all the nations!!!


With all our love,

Nathan and Charissa

The shaking of foundations

God has been doing some deep foundation shaking in the both of us for the last four months or so. 

I don't remember quite asking him to or not, but I'm not necessarily complaining either.

It's begun to make sense to me, the reason he has been working so deeply in so many areas of our hearts, namely in the area of releasing us from fears. The fear of death, pain, going without and not having enough, and fear of the unknown. He is preparing us, preparing us for who he created us to be and what he created us to do. And before we can be released into that season of our lives, he needs to rid us of our fear, because our fear would prohibit us from living in that calling to our fullest. 

The other thing that he has worked into our heart, is that he wants us to get more training. Because we will need this training for that same calling and mission. 

So here is the big news: We are entering into a nine month school of intensive study of the word. (We will still be staff here in Mexico, the school is actually here at our base.) We will go through the bible from cover to cover many times, and study it, learn to understand the culture during those times in order to better understand it, and prayerfully gain a love for his word that out-weighs those fears of death or pain, or anything else to prevent us from what he has made clear to us.

We are so excited to let him take us deeper, not just in the "study" of his word, but of knowing him deeper in relationship and letting his word soak deep into our hearts and our lives, and to transform us more into the image of our Jesus. 

Please be praying for us as we walk into this very intense season of our lives together. We want to do well and get everything that the Lord has for us in this time. 

We love you all!!!

What a ride!

Well, it's been a long time since I posted! Things got crazy before we got married, and even after!
There was a huge forest fire near the location of our wedding venue, and our honeymoon spot two days before the wedding, and God got us a place that was magnificent in time for a beautiful wedding I'll never forget! Then on our honeymoon, Nathan had a bad fall, and we spent time recovering from that. But, we had an awesome honeymoon! We got to drive up the coast and camp all the way to washington and back to Mexico! :) We also have a new kitty, which was Nathan's wedding present from me. :)

Once we got back to Mexico, it was crazy for three weeks preparing for and having a huge missions conference here, hosting 700 people! It was fun, but we are tuckered out! :)


Things are about to go back to a normal pace, which is going to be nice, and we are learning to adjust to married life and our new roles here.

God has done a lot of work in our hearts in the last few months, through books and relationships, and we are learning and growing so much.

I hope to be reguarly posting on here again all the time, now that things aren't so hectic. I've missed you all! :)


Here are some pics to enjoy from the last few months. :)