Make it
About us
In 2012, Cody and I met in a small village in Hungary called Vajta. We both graduated from the missions program at Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe. We married in 2013, with a strong call to missions. So we followed that calling to Slovenia. There, we lived in the city of Celje and served at a Calvary Chapel Celje. This is where we got our first taste of missions as a married couple, and it was there that God refined our calling and vision for ministry, and ultimately, church planting.
After almost two years in Celje, we moved back to the States, with the mission and intention to grow and be further discipled and equipped specifically for the purpose of one day returning to Europe to church plant.
This led to us living and doing ministry first on the East Coast in New Jersey, and then in Colorado. With each season we learned invaluable lessons about the church as the Body of Christ, community, worship, and fellowship. As well as organization, time management, and service, all unto Jesus. After being in ministry for years, both vocationally and bi-vocationally, we were unexpectedly presented with an opportunity.
Make it
Over the years, we had never stopped praying that the Lord would open the door and lead us back into overseas missions, which is what we always felt called to. So everything we did, and every choice we made, was done with the mission field in mind. But we hit a point- a testing point one might say, where we felt that the Lord was asking us to lay down our own plans of returning to the mission field.
This, of course, ensued some wrestling within our own hearts. We had originally planned to be stateside for a year, maybe two. Yet, after five years of living and serving in the States, God was asking us to consider the possibility of staying much longer, maybe even indefinitely. This idea of laying down our plans and desires to return to the mission field scared us; it felt like we were giving up everything we had worked towards.
Ultimately we came to the resolve that we would rather walk within God’s will and vision for our lives, even if that meant laying aside our own ideas, dreams, and callings. After coming to that place of full surrender and determination to walk in obedience, the Lord opened the door for an opportunity on the mission field -less than six months later.
In a way that we could have never planned or contrived for ourselves, we were contacted and asked to pray about the possibility of moving to Scotland. A pastor, here in Scotland, approached us with the need for more healthy churches. So we prayed, we sought the Lord, and walked in faith through every next step, fully submitting the process to His will.
In return, He truly, truly moved mountains on our behalf.
Initially, when we said yes, we were utterly overwhelmed and daunted by the bureaucracy, the visa process, the conversion rate, and the cost of just…everything. You see, religious visas for the UK are notoriously difficult to obtain AND retain. Truthfully, it all seemed to be an insurmountable feat - but God, at every point, in every way, showed up.
And after embarking on a scouting trip in late 2019, the Lord picked up our family of four and moved us across the world, arriving in Scotland by the end of 2020.
This is our story of how God has worked and moved, sanctified and sustained, over the course of our marriage and ministry together.
We are so excited to be a part of what God is doing in Scotland.
Thank You for following along with us and our boys, we hope you will continue to be a part of what God has in store. We are grateful to you all.
Grace & Peace
-The Nunes
