confession's is moving!

We are helping with a church plant in Kentucky, and we need some support!

God has put in on Justin’s heart for many years to plant a church. He recently had the opportunity to attend a conference full of church planters and organizations that help people do so. It rocked his world and he was ready to do it in an instant. The biggest hurdle he had to conquer was God changing Heather’s heart and making her open to the idea, which she was not in any way! Then came our visit to Louisville and our meetings with friends of a long time who were planting a church there. It felt like home, we loved their vision for church, and their passion for winning lost people to GOD! In that moment we knew that this is where God meant for us to be. Heather was even excited about the idea, which truly showed us that God was working in our lives and this is where what he wanted for us.

As the church we are moving to start is only in the forming stages and probably will not be able to pay us for a while we had also been applying for jobs and sending out resume’s and praying for everything to fall in place in God’s timing. We KNOW that God had huge plans for us, as he says in Jer 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” We KNOW that this is what God has in store for us, so he will provide a way for us to get there and the money to survive until we get jobs! We have started an online donation fund to help, just like with missionaries we are going to need the love, support, and prayers of our family and friends to get us through this little challenge in our lives. If you can help support our call financially thank you so much, if you cant we totally understand and just ask for prayers and some extra love as we go through this! Thank you so much for everything that you do, the love you pour on us, and the prayers we know you constantly cover us with. We would not be the people we are today without people like you in our lives.

If you can help financially in any way please visit http://www.plumfund.com/pf/thecarners. All of the money we receive will be going to our relocating costs, with anything that is left over going directly to our new church home HopeCulture.tv. I encourage you to check out the church website, watch the videos, sign up for the email list. Its such an exciting yet scary time for the Carners!

The reappearing nose bling

I don't know how it happens, but I lose my nose ring quite frequently. I have had it pierced four times over the last seven years (having to take it out for such high profile jobs as Media Play, etc have caused the numerous healings and subsequent repiercings) so you would think that I would be used to it by now. Yet somehow I frequently take it out at night or get it caught in clothes or towels and can not seem to relocate it immediately...

...but somehow it always turns back up.

I lost it once in a towel. I wiped my face off and there went the nose ring. I searched the bathroom and every inch of the towel for it and could not find it! I figured that was it, time to retire the face bling. About a week later, as I am folding my load of towels I hear a clink on the floor, and there it is. It made it through the washer, and drier, and back into my nose!

I was thinking about this today and how it reminds me of answers to prayer. Sometimes we search so hard and pray so long for something, and yet we feel like we don't ever get our answer from God. We expect an immediate answer, something right then and there. What we need to remember is that God is in control, and he WILL answer our prayer. It may not be in the time frame we wish for, or even the answer we wish for, but he will always answer...

... maybe we just need to fold a load of laundry or two before we realize that he has.