My husband and I met in high school and dated for four years before we got married. We have been happily married for almost two years and we have this amazing opportunity to move from our present home here in Knoxville, Tennessee to Sydney, Australia.
OK so let me back up a bit, when Bryon, my husband, and I first started dating it was just a "high school crush". Then, a year later we realized, this might be a little more! We graduated high school together and he started working while I went to beauty school. About 6 months later I graduated and started working in a salon. The next thing we know we have been dating almost four years and I am anticipating a proposal at any moment. He finally proposed to me on a trip to see a school that he wanted to attend called The Oaks School of Leadership in Red Oak, Texas. This was a seminary that was amazing! We pretty much fell in love with the school and the area around it!
This is when I realized that we were not going to live in Knoxville for the rest of our lives. We got back and started planning the wedding, as well as telling everyone we were moving!!
Next he applied for the school, we had high hopes that he would get in, hence us telling everybody (knowing we were not accepted yet). I, at the time, was just out of beauty school, working in a salon here in Knoxville. I made the mistake of telling all of my clients ( what little i had) that we were moving. Unfortunately when my clients realized they only had so much time left for me to do there hair, they decided they needed to just go ahead and find someone else... and leave me! Then about two or three months after we went to visit the school, we got the notice that we did not get accepted... :( When we realized our dream of going to this seminary was crushed, Bryon started looking elsewhere. He was just web searching and stumbled across this school called Hillsong
International Leadership College, hillsongcollege.com , that is located in Sydney. At first I didn't think anything of if, but he was pretty sure this was it!
When my husband and I first got married I knew that we would not be the normal "get married and have kids" type of couple. So this school had been on my husband's mind for a while, and i just so happened that the Hillsong United band and some of the church staff came to Atlanta to do a concert and a meet and have greet with some potential students. So we decided that we would go just to get a little more information! we loved the staff and what they had to offer. So we ended up applying right there on the spot! then we came home to wait...and wait...and wait...
Finally, HE GOT ACCEPTED!!! We were so excited! our families, however, not so much... They took it pretty hard at first, but I think as time gets closer and they started to realize that it could not be changed, therefore, they are coming around slowly, but surly. There at the beginning it was hard for all of us to believe that, this it might really happen, maybe even impossible. So there we were, a year before we leave... I mean its a whole year... right?
Well, that year went VARY FAST... (to say the least). Now its about four months until we leave and there are so many emotions happening, I'm excited, nervous, and pretty much all the rest! My husband, on the other hand, would get on a plain today if he could! But, I am so blessed to have a husband that is a planner, and knows how to calm me down when I anxious, or excited, or whatever crazy emotion comes along! And yes, there is so much to do and so little time! Never-the-less, our God is amazing and he is walking us through day-by-day, and he will continue to do so for the rest of our days!
Please continue on this journey with us as we unravel all the set-backs, and victories we experience as a family, and go to this new world that God is calling us to. Pray for us that we will be mindful that our God is in control and this is his will, and purpose for our life as a family!
