Who Are We and Why Are We Risking the Ocean?

Characters:

Christopher Bryan is the head master. Our hero. Our king. My love. My best friend.
Jennifer Allyn is me. The wife. The momma. The one writing all this down. I was once known as Jeni, but now I'm just "Jen".
Rachael Allanna is our first baby ('92). Grown and gone... married to Quinton. (He is the answer to many prayers... pretty perfect for her!) Rachael is our first little glimpse of His mercy.
Josiah Bryant is our boy ('94) who is now a man. A young man of God. Our first taste of His peace.
Brynna Kathryn Alexandra is the baby ('95). She is our first snapshot of His grace. It was going to be her middle name until the day she was born. Rachael and Josiah even made a huge banner that covered the entire living room wall reading, "Welcome Home Sarah Grace!"(Yeah - that's a story for another day).

Bringing home the boy! (Rachael 18 mo)

And then there were 3! (Rachael was 3 yr, Josiah 18 months)

Rachael's first day of Kindergarten

Coronation of our
King Josiah at age 8!

Brynna Kate on her 3rd birthday... she received this baby and without hesitating named it "Chalk"...
At Christmas she got Chalk a little sister and named it "Eraser"! I'm not kidding.

Plot Summary:
A man loves God more than anything in the world and choses to take with him on this JOURNEY called "life" a woman who is his best friend, and call her Jen. And when a man loves a woman... they have babies (every nine months we either gave birth or found out we were gonna give birth...) and continue to follow "In His Steps" just as they had learned in college at Marshall University at Christ Community Church under the leadership of Dr. Gregg Terry. I'll leave out all the middle stuff for now... blah... blah... blah... we landed in Louisville having served with our pastor Rick Bowden and his family for over 16 years UNTIL July 1, 2013.... That's when the boat took a sharp turn. We were living very comfortably, yet finding it more and more uncomfortable to live. We decided to follow His leading. We had our entire faith family cheering us on. The Lord moved us to Nashville as Chris was now the Director of Missions for a door to hope.

We affectionately called this great JUMP on our JOURNEY - "risking the ocean" the past couple years after hearing the song by David Crowder titled - "Sometimes" (<--watch/listen here).  The Lord began to work in our hearts and stir them up.

Basically, we are an ordinary family following Jesus on this JOURNEY of faith. We are moving to Haiti from August 22 - December 15 to see if it's good for us as a family and good for the ministry. So, won't you join us? You can watch right from where you are. We'll try to keep you posted of what's going on in our lives and you can join us by praying for us. We need LOADS of wisdom. We needs LOADS of bug spray. We need loads of courage. We need loads of friends cheering us on. Will you cheer for us?