Consider Your Wayz!

Dear Praying Family and Friends,  Thank you all so much for your prayers and encouragement. Since our wedding on November 22^nd Emily and I have been able to spend a total of twenty-two days together; thirteen days after our wedding I left for Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, IN (near Indianapolis) to prepare for deployment. I was able to go home for nine days for Christmas. During my time back home in CO, Emily and I spent Christmas with her family. After Christmas we left for the mountains for two days, and stayed at a Bed and Breakfast in Idaho Springs, then we went to Colorado Springs for three days. While we were down there we registered at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for a bridal registry, and picked out bedroom furniture set at American Furniture Warehouse, which we were able to purchase with our wedding money. We had a wonderful time together and were able to start reading George Mueller’s autobiography together. I love that one because it challenges me as the reader to evaluate whether I am living and acting in faith, or living strictly by human efforts and reasoning.   Emily has been continuing her work at Children’s Hospital in Denver and spending much time organizing our joint lives. This process has been a bit stressful at times but she does this willingly and without complaining. I am extremely grateful to the Lord for her and pray that I will never abuse her kind spirit in any way. God has been very good to us as He always is. We have nothing to complain about. We have many friends, family, and church family who are supporting us in any way possible. Nearly every time I speak with a friend I am told to let Emily know that if she needs anything, they would be glad to help. What a blessing!  Emily will be flying out to see me for two days before I begin my journey to the Middle East where I will be for the next twelve months.  During my time in Indiana, I have gone through an accelerated mobilization process (forty-five days), most soldiers have seventy-two days or more to complete the mobilization process. This was actually a blessing in disguise; although we did not have much (if any) personal time, this actually shortens my time away from home. The training was good, but it is almost “information overload”. There are so many classes and training exercises in such a short amount of time that it is hard to remember everything that we learn. The main purpose of all this training is so that if we encounter certain situations we will not be oblivious as to what course of action we should take even if it is not something that we plan to encounter in our daily assigned duties.   Please keep us in your prayers as we seek to serve the Lord with our lives. We are excited to see what the Lord has in store for our future as we honor Him with our lives. If you would like our contact info please send an email for an auto response to: contact@consideryourwayz.com . Serving God and Country, Andrew & Emily  

Dear Friends, Family and otherwise,

            I am pleased to announce that I was married on Wednesday, November 22^nd 2006, at 7:00 PM (MST) at the Vineyard Chapel in Littleton, CO to Miss Emily Schreiber of Aurora, CO. Emily and I were introduced by some mutual friends. After our 7^th meeting we were convinced that our introduction and meeting were not “by chance” and decided that we would pursue a lifelong relationship as long as the Lord would give us clear direction. We had both decided that we would not make any permanent decision in the relationship without the blessing of our parents. The Lord has graciously allowed us both to grow up in Christian homes where we were taught to fear the Lord and serve Him with our lives.              As some of you know, I will soon be deploying to Afghanistan, so my time with Emily before then will be short. We had planned on getting married after my return from overseas. I recently spent one month in Utah for military training; it was during this time that our parents gave us their blessing to get married before my deployment. We had one and one-half weeks to plan for the wedding; but for my wonderful bride, this was not a problem. The Lord caused many things to fall into place quickly and the wedding was a great success. Emily’s sister from China, and brother from Wisconsin were both able to fly in for the wedding. Last minute provisions were made which allowed my parents to be at the wedding as well (for which we were very grateful).             Because of the “speedy” nature of this wedding we were not able to send out invitations and inform many people of our plans. If you were not invited or informed, please do not take offense. We still love you all and wish you could have been there to witness this wonderful occasion. The wedding was small and beautiful; we had nearly forty-five people in attendance.             Early the next day, we flew to South Carolina where we spent the first five days of our married life site-seeing and meeting family and friends. We then returned to Colorado for the time where we will reside until the time of my departure.             Please pray for us during our time of separation; that we would continue growing in our love for each other and that the Lord would give us opportunities to minister to soldiers and their families. I will begin my “Home Station” training in Indiana on Dec 6^th and will be heading overseas sometime in February for about one year. Emily will remain in Aurora, Colorado and continue working at Children’s Hospital where she is employed as a RN until my return from Afghanistan. We also covet your prayers regarding specific direction after my return.  We have been considering several options for ministry, employment, or possible Active Duty with the Army.