The Wurglers

Exciting news everybody! We have successfully moved to Grand Forks. During a conversation with Jason from our leadership team last Thursday, we were given the green light to report to our assignment at the University of North Dakota. Needless to say, we were incredibly excited. We took the next couple of days to pack up the remainder of our things, see family and a few friends one last time and moved up this past Monday. Since then: ◊ We have been busy settling in to our apartment. Every day one more box seems to disappear. ◊ We have met with our team a few times already to talk about our roles in the ministry here. Aaron was asked to lead the "Freshmen Team." Details need to be ironed out as to what that will look like, but sharing the Gospel with them and finding those key students who want to be involved in Cru in a leadership aspect while training them to reach their classmates is a part of it. ◊ Aaron has already scheduled a meeting with a student who has indicated an in...

I've been thinking a lot lately about radical discipleship. God has given me a heart for world missions and I feel that as a part of the Body of Christ it is my responsibility to be a part of what He's doing around the world however I can. I pray and ask God to show me and yet I feel unwilling to do whatever it takes because it's more difficult as a family. Sometimes in America we worship the god of safety. Everything needs to be safe and in order to make it that way we attempt to control as much of our environment as we seemingly can. I've never felt such a strong pull toward that until I became a mother. I attempt to control what Emma touches, everything that goes in her mouth, where she goes... etc. God has called me to be her protector, especially now when she can't do much to protect herself. Sometimes that protective instinct wants to override everything including the Lord's voice. I have to ask myself as we pray about where God is leading us- am ...

Life has been a whirlwind the last couple of weeks. Here's a synopsis: We got to see Baby Wurgler in an ultrasound a couple weeks ago! Now I know the first thing everyone wants to probably know is whether we are keeping the gender race on an even keel with a boy or is Aaron going to be completely outnumbered with 3 girls in the house? Good question. Sara is about 18 weeks along, but our doctor wanted to get an ultrasound in before we move north so he told us not to get our hopes up regarding finding out the gender. But we looked anyway. We were blown away by all the activity in there and Aaron must have said at least a dozen times "This is so awesome!" We are praising God for a healthy baby and we can't wait to meet our new...baby. The doctors were so sure of the gender, they knocked it out of the park with a 55% surety that its a girl. No, they couldn't tell, which means, for the sake of a potential son, Aaron is hoping its a girl. They got plenty of good shots, ...

Well, the Wurglers are officially on a deadline. We have been asked to move out of our current living arrangement to make room for a son who is moving home. Rather than feeling discouraged, we have been hopeful that God would move and complete this initial support raising phase by the time we need to move - August 15. We are praying, and would ask you to pray with us, that we would be at 100% of our support goal by August 15 so we can move straight to North Dakota and not have to deal with the inconvenience of finding another place in Sioux Falls. 1 move will be enough, Sara says. In light of this, we have seen God come through in more amazing ways lately. We continue to be in awe of His provision and are constantly led back to the fact that it is He who is indeed working right now in this season and He is the one causing things to happen. If we were in "High Gear" before, we have somehow jammed the stick into a new, unfounded gear that previously did not otherwise exist. As ...

July 1 was another exciting day. Sara had been individually praying for specific support goals - asking and trusting the Lord to have us at 60% of our support by June 1 and 70% by July 1. He blessed us with the June 1 goal - a solid 60% of our monthly goal. So throughout June, she decided to trust Him again by asking for another 10% to be raised in 30 days. Unfortunately, June 30 came and went and with it, the hope that God would answer another of her prayer goals. She lay in bed that night, a bit discouraged but still hoping in the Lord to provide for us. She knew going into the week before July 1 that we needed to see $195 of support come in to be at 70% and it hadn't. Before drifting off to sleep, she prayed one more time, asking the Lord to provide that $195 in the next week or so, as if the Lord came up short in meeting a deadline and extending a "grace period" to get it done. The next morning, July 1, she checked the staff account balance, something she does a few t...

Recently a cousin of Sara's passed away. Her name was Nikki. I never met Nikki, but I heard a lot about her in the weeks leading up to her death. I heard stories of her life, ones that would make you grimace. She was adopted at a young age by Sara's great aunt and uncle, who had children already and who love the Lord. But for some reason, Nikki never could get her life in order. She grew up knowing about Jesus and His free salvation, but she was never able to give herself to Him. She would pray and ask for His help in the worst times of life, and, when things got better, she would go off on her own way again, fulfilling her own agenda, living a precarious life of substance abuse and recklessness. At a young age she was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and lived much longer than someone should have with her condition and lifestyle. But ultimately, CF took her life. She was 29. Sad news, huh? Well, here's the good part. Nikki gave her life to Christ just weeks before she died. ...

Welcome to our blog! This site will serve as our online connecting point with you until we go a little more professional with a personal website in the near future. Be sure to check back every now and then to keep up with whats going on in our ministry. Though we will still be sending out our monthly newsletter, we hope to keep more current information on this site. You will be able to get to know us, read what we are doing with Campus Crusade for Christ, hear "war stories" of what God is doing in our ministry, view our prayer letters and get to know us through our posts. Blessings! For HIS Kingdom, A, S & E