We Need Your Help!

To All of Our Loved Ones,
Welcome to our blog! Jessica is proud to tell you she made this website all by herself!! (I know, that really is a big accomplishment!) It is so important to us to have the people we care about up to date throughout our six weeks in Mexico. We will have internet access 24/7 in Mexico, so we'll be able to post pictures and updates on what God is doing through and in us. We hope you'll bookmark us!

We had a wonderful day today at Cannon Beach, eating at Mo's and walking on the beach. Tonight we were making pizza and hanging out when we received a phone call from Brad Bridges, who works for CAM in Texas. He wanted to let us know that we are each at $250 when we each need $1,890. He said that the account is not completely up to date (in case you sent something) but that the majority of our team mates are already at full support. We are confident that the Lord wants us to go to Mexico and that it would be very easy to allow this to be a place where we doubt or stumble. Instead we want to continue to walk confidentially in the direction the Lord has called us, knowing we need to trust what He is doing in our lives.

If you could help in any way (even $20), it really would make a great difference for us. It is really easy too! You can just hop onto CAM's website and just type in one of our names in the box labeled "specific missionary". If you'd want to help both of us, you'd need to do it twice writing Jordan Chesbrough once and then Jessica Schneider the second time. This online donation is tax-deductible and CAM will send you a receipt. You can also give us checks, this does however take longer to process.

We will post in a couple of days the things that you can be praying for us as we get closer to leaving. Let us know if you have questions, we have links on the right to CAM's website. We love you all!

Jordan and Jess

Just About Two More Weeks....

I can't believe we are going to be leaving in just about two weeks. For those that don't really know much about what we're up to this summer, we are going to Mexico City with CAM International to do mission work. Jordan will be building websites for the church and family we are working with, and is hoping to get to take pictures that they can use in the future to promote their church. Jessica will be teaching English and trying to learn Spanish as quickly as possible.
It seems so unreal the journey it's been to get to this point and now it's almost here! We are so thankful that the Lord spoke clearly to us to go to Mexico and how faithful he has continued to be. I'm just now starting to think about packing and all the things I need to buy. Six weeks feels so long, and I'm trying to keep perspective that it's not stressful to pack unless I make it stressful.

We found out that we're going to be sent to Northern Mexico City while the rest of the team we're with will stay in Southeastern Mexico City. At first we were surprised, nervous, and apprehensive. But very quickly we felt at peace about all of it and knew that the Lord had a very intentional reason to put us there. We are now so excited to be working with the family that is there and are praying that they will be an awesome relationship for us as we continue to grow closer together toward marriage.

It's been hard giving all of this to God. I am so incredibly excited to go this summer, but at the same time I want to do things my way. I know it would be so much easier to stay here and just hang out with friends and relax this summer. There are so many sacrifices that we, especially Jordan, will be making to go to Mexico and it can be overwhelming. Right now I'm reading Re:Understanding Prayer by Kyle Lake and it's amazing. He translates Isaiah 55:6-9 into his own words and it has been so inspiring for me. It says,

"God I hold fast to You right now for who You are knowing full well that at this very moment You are not like me and I am not like You. Right now, my thoughts are now Your thoughts, my ways are not entirely Your ways, my values are not entirely Your values. But, God, I still cling to You, and I approach my future amid this inevitable conflict of interests between Your ways and Your thoughts and my ways and my thoughts. And when You ways and Your thoughts conflict with mine, I will strive to be the one who changes."

Isn't that so powerful? God is the same and He doesn't change, we grow and change and our thoughts and our ways change as we know Him better. So, going to Mexico is my way of striving to be the one who changes.
-Jess

Our New Blog!

We are so excited to have this blog for all of you to keep updated on our internship to Mexico, but also just in our lives. More coming...