...Everything as loss...FOR GREAT GAIN

     So you would think we didn't have much to get rid of, knowing that when we sold our house in Colorado we had 4 HUGE yard sales and so so so much sold on craigslist. Nope...we have plenty to sell. And so to move forward toward our move to Jeremie we are doing our first yard sale here. We have had a few yard sales here to raise funds for our short term trip to Haiti with the team then. So we are becoming yard sale pros! That's right! Ha...But truthfully the crazy part is that it's January and warm enough to do a yard sale. Cracks me up. Of course, as I write this outside our little place in San Diego it's the coldest it's been in a long time. Cold enough to have frost on the ground at 7pm!! There's snow 45minutes away from us right now. And to top it off my weather app on the phone even said that at midnight last night we could've had snow...which leads to another fun story....     So the kids saw that my phone said it might snow. Whenever  we talk abou...

Running. There is nothing greater than taking the last few steps of a long race that you have ran and know that it is finished. Right? It feels so wonderful to be at the point where you know you have accomplished a goal, even if it wasn't perfect or you didn't finish in your best time. You finished!  ...I have not finished the race. Let me rephrase that. We have not finished! On June 21, 1986 I began the race of walking the amazing and challenging journey with Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of my life. Aaron began his race September 2000; Malachi April 4, 2009 and Rachel Eliana October 21, 2013,,,prayerful that Isaiah and Caleb will soon begin the race too! The Taylor family has begun a few times to really pick up the pace and take huge leads in the race. By lead, I mean.,,actually furthering the gospel of Jesus Christ by TELLING others about JESUS! Plain and simple. Obeying the command to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name ...

Hello friends and family! I am trying to get back into the habit of posting on here and filling you all in on this great adventure we are on...so please keep coming back and checking in on us!     So, you all know that we are pressing in to the Lord and preparing to move to Jeremie, Haiti! This adventure is so much greater than we could imagine, and harder! In the last three months of praying and picking a team and trying to step into lifting them up, we have for sure been challenged, and so have they! As I had announced in my last post about the people on our team, God was doing a work we didn't really know about and last week four of our team members stepped out of the team:( Those three days for sure rocked Aaron and I. It was not at all so much that we felt the mission wouldn't be accomplished or that we had to have that many people. It was that they are family and as part of this team we had really focused on the family side of preparation and our hearts did hur...

Hello friends and family! So much has gone on this past year here in San Diego and I wish I could recap everything. Some of you have followed us on here and on Facebook and know about what the Lord has been doing in and through our lives. A few major things are that Aaron and I both attended and graduated from Impact 195 discipleship school!! During that time we were stretched spiritually and our family has grown closer to each other and most of all closer to our Creator. Our knowledge of who He is and our love for Him has grown so much. We are so grateful He allowed us to sacrifice things for Him to walk in His great and awesome works that He had for us this year!     And now He has set out a huge work that we both are so excited to share with you all! As many of you know that Aaron and I were blessed to go on a 2 week mission trip to Jeremie, Haiti in April. It was amazing!! Before we left Aaron and I were presented an opportunity to ponder and pray about. It was a hug...

-           Day 3 -           We spent a major part of the day training w/ local disciples and community there.  One of the hard things for me personally was seeing all of the children there.  The kids don’t get much attention so the great part was that they were SO happy to have us there, we were able to give them attention and spend time just playing with them.  The difficult part was seeing how great their need is and not being able to do much to meet that need.  Most of these kids have super skinny arms and legs because they are malnourished, they don’t know when they will have water or food, and you really can’t give out any type of snacks to them, because if you give one out, within less than a minute, you have around 20 more kids asking for something and it grows and grows.  Thankfully the time that we had there, we were able to at least provide bags of water fo...

So we wanted to share about our highlights from our recent Haiti trip!  God did so much and we tried to journal most of it down so we wouldn't forget the details.  Most of our pictures from the trip are on our facebook page, so this will be primarily dedicated to stories.  We wanted to go over each day and share specific stories of how God touched our lives, and others' lives: -           First day landing in Porte Prince and driving to Jeremie, here are some crazy things we saw: o    Extreme poverty, most homes are made out of sticks w/ tarps as a roof, or metal aluminum sheets w/ scrap pieces to hold together, most homes are 8' x 12' and that's it,  people everywhere, tons of children, trash everywhere, they do everything on the side of the road, sell goods, cut meat, build furniture, cut steel, play, landfills full of trash w/ pigs in them, and people selling food right next to them.  Police drivin...

Haiti http://vimeo.com/77086846">Haiti > from Rock">http://vimeo.com/rockfilms">Rock Films on Vimeo .https://vimeo.com">Vimeo.> This is a preview of where we are headed for a two week missions trip on April 22-May 6!!! YES! Aaron and I are going to take this step of faith and go serve  the orphans of Jeremie, Haiti and reach the lost who live in deep, deep darkness in Haiti. We will be going with 15-20 of our classmates and leaders. We really have a lot of details to post and will do so later. We just wanted to get this news out so that you all can pray for us!!! If you'd like to, you can partner with us in one or more of the following ways; - PRAY for us:      *We need to raise $4,000 by March 5th      *We are seeking childcare while we are gone      *For our team as they raise funds and for the people of Haiti to have hearts ready to be free and know Jesus as their Savior...

We wanted to update you on what has happened over our 5 week break now that school has just started up again...here are some of the major highlights. (pictures to come later, will have to get my amazing wife to help, I seem to be computer challenged... : 0 It was a time of rest, challenge, growth and wonderful time w/ friends and family. REST We got blessed by the Hardy's (a couple back from FTC) with an 8 day stay at an amazing condo that walked right out onto Mission Beach!  It was really needed because our 'break' was actually pretty busy!  So our family took a week off and relaxed on the beach (70 degrees in winter...nice).  Aaron biked and ran with Malachi and Rachel.  We played games, had some friends over to see in the New Years and reflect on what God did in 2013, and mostly relaxed with our family.  Thank you to the amazing Hardy's once again, it was a refreshing time, more than you guys know! FRIENDS/FAMILY After we returned from the condo, w...