Greetings from Georgia where Anna and I are currently enjoying a restful sabbatical season. Below is an update on our future plans.

When I began writing “Unto Death” in New Zealand a few years ago, I approached Brian Kim (who leads the Antioch Center for Training and Sending) about writing the foreword. Since then our friendship with he and his wife has deepened. Anna and I love Brian and Grace.

Over the years as our paths crossed in the nations, Brian and I would always say to each other, “We should work together somehow!” and then we would go our separate ways. It appears that this was the Lord’s idea all along. 

When we landed in Kansas City in January (where we spent six months), Brian and Grace explained how they were praying about relocating their growing base of operations from Kansas City to Colorado Springs in a partnership with a number of ministries who are aggressively laboring to advance the Gospel in the most unengaged regions of the earth. They ended up deciding the timing was right and began the transition (you can read more about it here). Around that time, considering our shared burdens and deep friendship, they asked if we and our FAI team would consider the possibility of relocating with them to Colorado for a season in a longterm partnership.

After talking, praying, and ruminating on the input from our many moms and dads, Anna and I felt a deep sense of divine providence in all of it.

This December we will be joining the ACTS global leadership team and assuming the role of regional director for the Muslim world. You can read more about it over at the ACTS page here. Our plan at this stage is to spend a year in Colorado Springs deepening our relationship with the ACTS family and serving the establishment of the missions base there. In late 2015 we will shift back overseas to direct operations in the Middle East/North Africa.

Our involvement with ACTS will affect the shape and trajectory of FAI and our film production companies in a number of ways; ways that we’re quite excited about; ways that will both stream-line and broaden Great Commission activity in regions desperately in need of it. We will share details about that in future days.

For those of you who have invested into our family through encouragement, prayer, friendship, financial support and love, THANK YOU. It has meant the world to us.

Until next time, may the Lord bless you, keep you, and shine His face upon you.

Dalton, Anna, Isaiah, Elisha and Jedidiah