It was election season 2020. I was putting a sign in my yard for the presidential candidate I was supporting. My neighbor was also putting up a political sign… for the other guy. I like my neighbor. He’s a great guy. If we met on Facebook we probably would have been yelling at each other.

But that got us thinking. In the past we have put our trust in parties or political movements that let us down. They started great, but inevitably failed. We realized that our hope, our trust could not be in them. Our trust had to be in God. We did not want our neighbor, or anyone else, thinking that our hope for the future or the trust for our lives was in the name on the sign on our yard, but in the name of Yahweh.

Micah grew up in the country of Indonesia, which was ruled at the time by a socialist dictator named Suharto. Through a mix of home schooling, missionary boarding schools and a love of reading Micah fell in love with the story of America. With the uniqueness of a place where people ran to in order to worship God in the best way they knew how. He loved the idea of a land of freedom that so contrasted with the democratic socialism he saw all around him.

Katy grew up in Erie, PA. The daughter of a hard-working entrepreneur, Katy learned from an early age the value of a hard day’s work.  As a young adult Katy had the opportunity to live and work in Malaysia and Indonesia, creating a passion for the people (and the food) of Southeast Asia. The debate over who has the best food, Malaysia or Indonesia, is a topic hotly contested in our marriage.  Katy’s experiences in Southeast Asia gave her an abiding appreciation for the freedom so often taken for granted in America.