We met in the fall of 2002 in Tucson, Arizona. We were both leaders on the same Young Life team at Sabino High School. We spent the year doing ministry together and getting to know one another as friends. During that year, Peter applied for and was accepted to The University of Arizona Medical School.
In the fall of the next school year (2003), I studied abroad in Costa Rica and Peter began his first year of Medical School. Though we were not dating, we continued to grow our friendship, emailing 3-4 times a week throughout the seven months that I was gone. During this time, we discussed how we had both felt the Lord calling us to a life of overseas mission work.
In December, I returned to Tucson and we began dating. Throughout our relationship we frequently discussed our call to missions. In November of 2004, we were engaged and March of 2005 we were married, during Peter's second year of Medical School. Peter graduated from Medical School in 2007 and we moved to Pennsylvania for Peter's Emergency Medicine Residency, where we lived until 2010, at which time we moved to Phoenix for Peter to begin his practice at a hospital in Phoenix.
Throughout this entire time, we frequently prayed and asked the Lord for His timing and His clarity about our call to the mission field. Each time we prayed, we felt the Lord telling us to wait ... until 2011 when we felt the Lord telling us to begin to prepare. About that time, a friend told us about the annual Global Missions Health Conference in Kentucky. We made plans to go and in 2012 we attended the conference, expecting that the Lord would give us some sort of direction, but not knowing what.
It was at this conference that we first heard of Loma de Luz, a missionary hospital on the northern coast of Honduras. When we met the people from Loma de Luz, we were both overcome with the Holy Spirit telling us that this was the place that he had been preparing us for.
We returned home from the conference and began making plans to go down and visit, which we did in March of 2013. While we were there, we strongly sensed the Lord confirming that this was the place.
We moved to Balfate, Honduras in January of 2014 to serve at Loma de Luz hospital and its surrounding ministries. Peter works in the hospital helping patients with their physical needs, but also ministering to their spiritual needs, telling them of the amazing love that Jesus has for them. I teach fourth grade Language Arts and Bible at El Camino Bilingual School and take care of our four girls Kenna (8), Kinzie (6), Koley (4), and Kyler (2).
