THE KIMBALL'S ARE MOVING TO HONDURAS!!
"How can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?
Romans 10:14-15
Dear Family and Friends,
We would first like to say a huge thank you for all the ways you have supported and loved us individually and now as a family up until this point. We have some exciting news we would like to share with you!
Josh and I met back in 2015 on the mission field in Haiti. Anyone who knows us knows that both of us have a huge heart for international missions and sharing the Gospel to the nations. We have been living in America in Jacksonville, FL, as we've started our family. We now have three handsome boys, Jaxon, Judah and Josiah. It has been our prayer since we started dating that we would always put God first and not get comfortable living an “ordinary” life here. We prayed and we prayed about the call on our family, but knew we needed to trust and wait on God’s perfect timing. As we start 2021 we're excited to announce that God has answered our prayers and we are being called back into full time ministry as missionaries!
The last four years has been a time where God has been preparing our hearts for this new season. While starting life and a family in the U.S. with Ashleigh staying at home with the boys and Josh working in medical sales, we launched and have been leading All Nations Soccer League (www.allnationssoccerleague.com) to share the Gospel with the over 30,000 refugees in this area. ANSL has grown to over 400 players from more than 80 different nations. After every game players discuss who Jesus is and go through Bible teachings and discipleship. It's been a privilege engaging churches in local missions and seeing players from across the globe unite as a family growing in their faith in Jesus. A year ago God led us to merge ANSL with Buena Vista Sports Academy (www.bvboys.com), a ministry that plants youth academies internationally with the common mission to share the Gospel with the unreached through soccer. Through that relationship, God has personally called our family to join BVSA as missionaries in Honduras!
We completed BVSA training stateside in 2020 and will spend our first year at their current academy in Honduras learning Spanish and how ministry and operations runs day to day. Then in 2022, we will be part of a team planting a new academy in a location still to be decided. We don’t have all the details yet but that’s exactly where we want to be knowing God knows and obediently trusting Him by taking the next step.
BVSA is much more than just a soccer academy. It is an evangelism and discipleship ministry. We will live onsite and have an opportunity to share God’s love as we minister to 30-36 boys daily. The goal is to model and live out what a relationship with Jesus Christ looks like and how it manifests itself in a family. From there, our prayer will be that the Holy Spirit will raise up men out of these boys who will lead change in their community to be loving husbands and fathers, respected leaders, and Godly men, who with God’s help, can break cycles of abuse, poverty and absence of biblical family values.
We know this calling will not be easy, and for that reason would like to ask all of you to keep us in your prayers as we go into this new season of life. We will need them! We want you to know that we love each of you dearly. You are included in this letter because you are our family, our closest friends, and the people we depend on and look up to. Thank you for all your love and support in our lives.
In order for us to be sent as BVSA missionaries, we are now raising funds to help support us in ministry. We are praying for a partnership team of monthly supporters to stabilize our ministry and support for start up costs to get us established. Would you consider partnering with us?
We are blessed that a great mission’s organization called Commission To Every Nation (cten.org), will manage all our ministry fundraising and provide us pastoral care, administrative help, and financial accountability. If you would like to partner with us please check out the steps below on how to become a monthly partner or give a one-time donation.
Thank you again for allowing us to share our journey with you!
Love, Josh, Ashleigh, Jaxon, Judah and Josiah!
"This gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations; and then the end will come."
Matthew 24:14
