We are Jordan and Sarah Bergren, and this is a blog about the chapter of our life called Cambodia. The author has been thinking about this chapter for quite some time now but has yet to start writing it. He has told us bits and pieces of what this chapter might entail, but as we all know, what we picture things ought to look like often fall far short of what they really are. As you read this blog, you will be reading our version of this rather grand and wondorus story, weaved by God Himself.
It was the hot afternoon of July 1st 2012. Both of us were smiling crying, and one of us did a brief gallup of joy as I (Jordan) stood at the end of the aisle waiting as the most stunning woman (not Jordan) I had ever seen in my life walked down the aisle escorted by her daddy. That day was the beginning of journey, an un-fathomable journey of two excited travelors.
Two years before that day we were sitting at Dunkin Doughnuts when I asked Sarah to be my girlfriend. Romantic, I know.
A month before that day we were both recovering from a combination of jet-lag and reverse culture shock. We were in Thailand for three weeks on a mission trip. I had little knowledge of why God was smiling so much when Sarah and I both signed our lives away for three weeks to live in an orphange for disabled children and serve among children who were on the brink of being sold into sex-slavery. It was there that He revealed big pieces to the puzzle of my past and also our future together.
Two years before that we were graduating High School, getting ready to head off to Olivet Nazarene University. Sarah graduated from Bolingbrook High, in the town she grew up in, Bollingbrook, IL, a west suburb of Chicago. I was walking the stage of Homewood-Flossmoor High in the town I grew up in, Homewood, IL, a south suburb of Chicago.
It was within those high school years that the Lord slowed us down from our lives of self pursuit. It has been a crazy journey since then.
We both grew up with great, but imperfect families. We love and are thankful for the way our parents raised us. The loved, cared and held the line for us in amazing ways. God is proud of them, and so are we.
Looking back on the last twenty-something years has made us realize that life is crazy, and its not what you think it will be, but with the Spirit of God in the driver's seat it becomes an amazing ride. We have no reason to doubt that this next chapter has some crazy adventures, and some tough ones that create pearls in the process.
Thanks for stopping by our page. Please pray for us as we begin this journey of life in Cambodia!
