Naomi and I have been married for over five years. We met at our home church and for a five year period grew closer and closer in our relationship to each other.
Early on in our friendship we both talked about missions. Naomi took a yearlong mission trip to Bolivia, South America with her family, while I started New Tribes Bible Institute in Jackson, MI. After a 
semister I came back to Bozeman, Montana and started learning a trade in concrete. After Naomi came home we got married a year and a half later but we did not continue on with Bible school until she had graduated from the University with her Bachelor's in Elementary Education. The following summer we both went to Bolivia with a team from our
church and stayed there for three months working at the mission boarding school. The trip together helped us see how we could serve on the field together and gave us direction for how we wanted to serve.
From there we traveled straight to NTBI in Waukesha, WI. We were blessed with our
first child (Solomon) in our first year and we completed Bible school the next year (Naomi got on the honor roll and I missed it by .01 percent; she is the brains of the operation). Bible school was great because it showed us how much we did not know about scripture. When we graduated we had been taught through every book of the Bible plus some doctrine classes and electives. We would not trade those two years for anything.
Because NTM was consolidating the training program, we took a year off and got involved with our home church. I taught Jr. High and was able to impliment my Bible teaching and pass it along to others. I also worked again in concrete. Naomi helped me write my lessons for Sunday school and was the mission conference coordinator for our church's conference.
It was hard to say good bye again, but we traveled down to Missouri. Now we are here in the training (MTC). All things are new again, including our little daughter Patience Joy Lorenz. In faith we are looking forward to the road that God will lead us on from here!
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