Cheers to 10 years.
It is hard to believe we have been at this for a DECADE. It still feels like yesterday when I was mailing off our application, document packet, and check. Hoping on a plane to Guadalajara that same afternoon hoping that we would hear back from the Secretary of State sooner rather than later, but fully anticipating it to be sent back with a list of things we needed to change, correct, or amend.
Much to my surprise, 2 weeks later, arriving home from our trip there was a certificate of incorporation waiting in my mailbox. MARKED was officially born.
These 10 years have held some of our highest highs and our lowest lows. It has met us with challenges we never could have anticipated and miracles unimaginable. It has brought us closer, made us stronger and has led us to the feet of Jesus time and time again.
It has been 10 years of YOU showing up, 10 years of lives impacted, 10 years of needs met, 10 years of bellies filled, 10 years of lives empowered and transformation taking shape. It has been 10 years of dreaming, and 10 years of dreams fulfilled.
It moves me to tears thinking back on the past 10 years. The relationships built, and the faces that are forever changed because of it.
To say I am grateful is an understatement. What an honor it is to do this with each of you who choose to say yes to partnership. I am forever moved, forever thankful and forever honored by your yes.
Heres to the next decade of dreaming together and lives transformed.