Steve and Veronika briefly visited the Little Rock Missionary Baptist Student Fellowship (MBSF) in the Fall of 2003. Sometime in the next month or two I started visiting/regularly attending the same MBSF...but we never crossed paths. In the Spring of 2005 I started student teaching at David O. Dodd Elementary, just a few miles from the Missionary Baptist Seminary on Stagecoach Road. A father that attended the seminary and attended Marlow MBC mentioned that he thought I should meet a friend of his, a divorced guy with a little girl...but nothing ever came of it. In January of 2006 I joined Match.com and ran across a guy and "winked" at him. I don't necessarily remember what first caught my eye but I do remember what caught my attention. He (Steve) said that he had been a preacher but was divorced and the churches of his denomination didn't allow divorced men to be preachers. "How odd," I thought. Missionary Baptists are about the only denomination that teach that and it was not a common thing to run into a Missionary Baptist guy just by chance. We continued talking by email and phone for a week or two, then on March 3, 2006 we had our first face-to-face date. We didn't date long, we were married on November 17, 2006. Looking back we would've dated a little longer, but with all we have been through I truly believe that he is the one that God was preparing for me...we just had to wait on HIS timing.
Spring 2006
Spring 2010
4 comments:
How neat! I had no idea that you guys almost met all of those times! That is nuts! It is truly amazing to see how God brings people together! :D
Wow! I love that story...amazing how God's timing was perfect! Four years...what a difference!
I can't believe it's been 4 years. I was just thinking about how big Veronika has gotten is that amount of time.
I know, she really was a baby when we got married!
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