my husband, worship pastor

i'm writing this blog as it's happening, but may not be able to post for a while....but i want to publicly praise God right away:



we need to rewind to the beginning. when joey and i first started dating. and he was in a band called destination known. as his girlfriend, i was proud, but not impressed. after all, i have no musical talent in me so i just didn't understand the coolness of it all. in fact, when he quit the band, i was secretly glad bc i knew a proposal would be next, and i was right. we get married, move to keller, and a great opportunity is presented to joey to lead worship at our new church. i love this bc he gets to do worship part-time, and i get to see our lives as 2 full time teachers begin. fast forward about 4 years through part-time worship jobs at various churches to the fall of 2007. joey begins to talk about worship more and how he is starting to feel God calling him to full time ministry. all i can hear is God calling me to have a baby and it appears i hear God correctly when we find out we are pregnant in the spring of 2008. all summer, joey continues to feel God's calling and my response is (selfishly) "I married a teacher. Not a worship leader. And I don't want to be a pastor's wife". Skip the next couple scenes of max being born and the beginning of my full time mommy career (instead of teaching). It is now the spring of 2009. joey still wants to be a worship leader. and i start to see why. summer 2009 brings me to the realization that God has changed my heart and now i desire as much as joey for him to be a in full time ministry. fall 2009 begins the daily prayers, weekly discussions, and monthly opportunities and job interviews for the much desired worship position. during this time, joey is offered an opportunity to play 2 sundays a month at a nearby church. he takes it, along with many other opportunities and continues to search for a full time worship job. it appears that every church we are interested in and that we feel God may lead us too is only offering part time. so we discuss, have our fall back plans of what to do, and start to be anxious that he may have to return to teaching in the fall of 2010. then, a phone call in the magical month of march. someone is leaving; joey can be full time. for about 3 weeks we hide this information from all of those around us...but we pray and we pray hard. and through what could only be God's perfect plan, joey becomes the associate pastor of worship and administration at crosspointe community church in corinth texas this july.



words cannot express the overwhelming praise that we feel. we do not have to move away from our families and friends. we do not have to compromise the type of church we want to belong too. the pastor and this church believe in joey. he can be a pastor and i, a pastor's wife. and joey is happy.



on sunday, when joey officially accepted the job, he had a smile on his face during worship that i haven't seen in a long time. and as he led us in "revelation song", i began to cry from the pure joy that my husband is awesome and has an awesome talent to lead worship and now we have an awesome church who believes in him to use this talent full-time.



"jesus, your name is power, breathe and living water, such a marvelous mystery"



amen.