The best place to start is always at the beginning!!... This story of our lives begins in January 2006. In January, God began to do some amazing things in the Fryar home. God began to work in ways that we had never experienced before. We moved to a whole new level in our walks with Christ. Over the next few months, God began to speak to us about simplifing our lives. About returning to what is really important. I John 2:15-17 says: Do Not Love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from This world. And This world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But Anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
We were also faced with a possible move. We began to discuss 'Were we finally going to be able to put down roots in Southaven, where we had a church family that we love dearly, and a great community?' Or 'Did God CREATE us to move around every 2-3 years as we have done in the past 10 years of our marriage?' As part of the simplification process God began to let us consider changing careers, and possibly doing church work, or home schooling, or something of that nature. After about 6 months of our prayerfully considering our options...
GOD HIT US SMACK DAB OVER OUR HEADS!!
As we sat peacefully in our pews on Wednesday night, July 12th, 2006. After a Great time of Music and Teaching... A young couple got up to share about going to Brazil. We had seen them before, and knew they were going. But to hear them share about How God had moved them to Sell Everything and Move to Brazil with NICS to teach in a school there... God began to unfold a Very Beautiful Picture. Chris and I both got STUCK in our seats... Teared up a little... We both sat with our Jaws open, and said 'They're just ORDINARY PEOPLE!!' But they were Called by an EXTRODINARY GOD! We began to pray about this... desperately trying to decipher what in the world was going on. It was the CALL OF GOD! He Bent Down out of Heaven and touched our shoulders, and simply said 'GO!!'
Chris and I had such an ENORMOUS PEACE about the whole thing. Selling everything and leaving with 8 Duffle Bags didn't scare us in the least. COMPLETELY Changing our Careers - for me from NURSE to TEACHER, and for Chris from BIG Corporate Retail Merchanding to Small School Business Management. Completely Different... but if you know us... NOT TOO FAR FETCHED!! :) We had no idea WHERE God would send us, no idea HOW God would send us, no idea WHEN God would send us, no idea of anything... but with BOLDNESS and DETERMINATION we set the spokes turning towards the 'GO'.
NICS is the Network of International Christian Schools. It is based out of Southaven! (Check out the link to the website) They have 19 Schools all over the world. We did not care AT ALL where God was going to send us. We told them we had NO Preference.
We had a MASSIVE Yard Sale in August, and sold so much stuff. We put our house on the market on September 1st... ALL BEFORE we knew we even had a job! We had such an amazing peace about being in the middle of the Will of God! My heart was always that we would have a school that CHRIS would have a place of leadership, and an important job. He even said on his application that he would be 'A Janitor for Jesus.' But I wanted him to remain as the God Ordained 'Head of Household.'
So... HERE WE ARE... We are HIRED as the Business Manager/Accountant (Chris) and Science Teacher (Beverly) for a small school in Brasilia, Brazil. The Administrator of the school is an awesome guy who has been there for 7 years, and loves it! They are about to purchase and move into a new school, and that is why they need us ASAP!! We are hoping to be in Brazil in January... All Depending on the VISA process.
Please pray for us over the upcoming months, and we will keep you posted on everything going on with us!!
SO MUCH LOVE,
Beverly
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