Reboot, Part One

It was the fourth or fifth of February in 2014. That was the day when we knew our first mission in Prague was over. Our organization sent out an email that confirmed a suspicion we had had for a few months: it was closing. We had been praying for guidance as we orchestrated a trip to the U.S. with the Czech students. We were hoping for some type of clarity that would reveal what we would be doing next. It was not necessarily the answer we were looking for, but it was certainly a clear answer.

By the fall of 2014 we had returned to the friendly confines of our old school and even settled into doing basketball again like before. Tonya worked on getting a master's degree and I worked on paying for it. We knew that we were going to be looking into going overseas again, so we began attending conferences and meetings for those who were internationally minded.

Early in September of 2016, Tonya and I made the decision to officially look into going overseas again. Our church introduced a program entitled the Global Cities Initiative. Through this program we decided to look closely at London, since it was closer to Central Europe than any of the other cities listed. We felt like we could be the most effective in this environment.

So with "London Calling" in the background, we began to slowly proceed. We had no idea what was coming next.