Call of the Wild - Loving the Unlovely.

Rob praying with a young man

You could say the beginning of anything is not always easy. That's even in the Bible in Zechariah 4:10. Going from the dignity of renting our own home and earning our way, to the uncertainties of full time ministry and living by faith brought many radical lifestyle changes to adjust to. Anything people could offer at the time as a seed to begin our ministry was a crucial blessing to us. This included living room floors to sleep on, showers in peoples homes, canned foods and the like. These seemingly small offers where what kept us afloat for a while as we learned the ins and outs of running a ministry. 

Rob & Millie acting out a drama

At 23 and 21 years of age, many people were astonished by the faith and boldness we carried to accomplish such tasks. Most people our age were investing into finishing some sort of degree, starting their careers, and investing in properties. We, on the other hand felt the Lord was instructing us to go to the darkest places to tell the people lost in hurt and rejection what God had done for us and that they too can join the family!

Ministry at a Goth/Metal Show

The Lord opened many doors for us to enter bars and clubs to preach the Gospel. Rob and I put together a small drama of our testimonies. We would often get into these places with a band or friends connections, perform our drama, preach to the crowd and offer to pray for anyone who wanted prayer. This was so effective and people were coming to the knowledge of Jesus everywhere we went! It became so successful that when the Church heard what we were doing we started receiving multiple invitations to encourage them and teach them how to do the same! We even started to see healings and miracles!

Millie preaching her testimony

Rob ministering in New Zealand

This was our new phase of life and we loved it! God did many great things and we had been to a few countries already ministering and loving on people who were so hungry to know the Lord! 

- Millie

We were normal once too!

Rob & Millie 2006

      Okay...maybe not completely normal. ;) Rob and I met in the beautiful mountainous state of Pennsylvania! I was spending my days waitressing and finishing up a Partial Hospitalization program that I had been apart of for the last year. Rob came fresh off the mission field into our cold cultured society which proved to him to be clueless and insensitive to re-entry culture shock. We met at a coffee house held in a church we were attending. Life was vast for us as we were young and open minded. Life would never be the same.

Rob & Millie's Wedding 2007

Just a few months later, on New Years Eve 2006 Rob proposed to me on a mountaintop in Pennsylvania. With a candle lit he bent down on one knee and revealed a beautiful princess cut diamond engagement band that glittered to the glow of the candle. The man of my dreams was asking me to marry him. Was I dreaming? Of course, I said "Yes!"

Rob & Millie, Ottawa Parliament 2007

We had our wedding just 3 months later on March 3rd, 2007. It was a beautiful day and the ground was snow covered as we marched together into the park surrounded by a beautiful frozen lake. There we got dubbed husband and wife with a sword by the pastor dressed in a kings outfit. It was like a fairytale and it was all we could have dreamed of and more!

(To see more pictures of this event click here!)

That's when we seemed to have caught travel bug. We geared up for our honeymoon in blizzarding Ottawa, Ontario, Canada the next day! After some time there, we hopped in our car and headed for Florida where we had decided that we would start our life together since it was were Rob spent his childhood. 

Leaving Everything 2007

      After sometime of working 2 - 3 jobs to survive we felt a calling into full time ministry. So many questions flooded our mind. How would we do it? How would we survive? How do you go from working so much just to survive to living solely on faith? We had no answers but we knew what we had to do. We quickly gave notice to our jobs and by the direction of the Holy Spirit we were packing up our things and heading back North to Pennsylvania!

We were off...by faith we stepped into the unknown, and we never did look back!

- Millie