Put Some Nunley On It: June 2009

As many of you may know, my wife and I are in the process of taking a huge step of faith. But just in case you don't know I will give you a little background. Last summer I began to feel God calling me into vocational ministry. As I began to pursue that and after talking with my wife and through prayer, we decided that I would go to seminary. I soon began to talk with friends and mentors about what that would look like. I visited two men that I look up to in Murfreesboro, Brady Cooper and Jeremy Lee. They both work a church called New Vision Baptist Church. While I was there, they brought up the idea of volunteering at New Vision's youth ministry. I would be treated like a true associate, while they pay for me to get my Masters in Divinity. The idea is that I could get some training as a youth minister, as well as lots of good experience. I left really excited, but what was I going to tell Elizabeth.....I will be working for free. I told her and she was willing to follow God in whatever He called us to. We began to pray about it and felt God was calling us to the Boro! So we both quit our jobs and are following God. God is working out so many things through all of this and we are trusting Him with everything.

I left school in late May and it was an incredible feeling. I was relieved to know I was following God and leaving a job that has been a struggle for the past 2 years. I will never have to deal with this:

I will miss the students and some of the teachers I had befriended, but it was an incredible feeling.

So it is summer and we are trying to move to the Boro. We just got back from summer camp with New Vision. Elizabeth had 6th graders and I had 7th. God worked in the hearts of the students and ours. I fell in love with the students and really enjoyed the camp. Being there really got me excited to get to the 'Boro! So now we are trying to sell the house!