What Next?

    So much has happened over the last year!  Can you believe that we've been living in Yeppoon for 14 months now?  We sure can't!  It's amazing because we feel so at home that it feels like we've been here forever, but it also feels like time has flown.  We have enjoyed every second of our time here and are looking forward to the next 9 months as well.  Things are starting to look a bit different as we make adjustments for the baby.  Although I (Sam) am still at work everyday and attending the children's and youth programs, I am slowly starting to hand off some of my responsibilities.  We can't believe that the baby will be here in about 5 weeks!  This pregnancy has really flown by quickly even though this last bit seems to be moving in slow motion.
    We really have no idea what these next 9 months are going to look like.  Our job now is to work ourselves out of a job...we've never had to do that before!  By the end of the year we'd like to have handed over most of our large responsibilities and be a mentor to those who are taking over.  It's difficult to not start thinking too far into the future.  A lot of people have asked us what we're doing after this and we can honestly say we have no idea!  It kinda feels like that's been the motto for our whole marriage!  We just kind of take it as it goes and go where God wants us to go.  So far it's worked out pretty well for us.  We've thought through a few options for after this but we don't feel like God is showing us one way or another.
    We are doing a study in our small group called Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby.  We were both reminded this week that we need to be focused on what God's doing here and now and how we can be a part of it rather than looking too far into the future.  We have a precious little baby that will be joining us any time now and we have a church full of youth to minister to.  Please pray for us as we welcome Baby Schwarze into our family.  Also pray that God would help us to focus on the youth right now.  We want to continue to build strong relationships with them and serve them.  Pray that we would be focused on our tasks at hand here!  Thanks for all of your love, support and prayers over the last year :)