Meet The Crazy Davises
Projects 4 Missions helps busy people make an eternal impact by connecting them with ministries and convenient projects.
A long time ago, in a nearby town, Chester and Amy got married with the dream of being missionaries that helped other missionaries. We thought we’d work with JAARS, serving missionaries, or somewhere else – wherever God sent us. With that in mind, Chester got an aviation mechanics license and pursued a mechanical engineering degree.
As often is the case, life interrupted the starry-eyed plans of our youth. We had five kids, and had to come up with ways to feed them. Chester’s school seemed to stretch to eternity. While in school we continued to help out missionaries wherever we could but our dreams felt more and more distant.
Near the end of a particularly grueling summer (in 2017), Chester and I looked at each other and wondered “are we still on the right track”? We started to pray that God would either provide something to confirm our path or change our direction. A few weeks later, during a phone call with some missionary friends of ours, they suggested that we send a Facebook friend request to one of their friends. They were embarking on an interesting building renovation that they thought we’d enjoy watching.
The first thing we saw on their Facebook feed was an ad. “Come work on our building with us, and we’ll provide free housing”, they offered. With Chester’s approval, I wrote to find out more. God used that conversation to change the course of our life. In the next few months we applied to a missions board and were accepted in record time. We put a note in our Christmas letter that we were considering going to France to help missionaries and prayed that God would definitively open or close the door.
Chester was a student at the University, so we asked God to provide for this trip before the last day to drop classes for spring semester without penalty. If we had enough to buy plane tickets for all seven of us by that day, we would buy the tickets and drop out of school. We knew it would take a miracle, but of course, that sort of thing is God’s specialty. He provided, we booked tickets, and flew to France.
In some sense the rest is history. We named this new venture “Projects 4 Missions” a few months later, and God has provided a steady stream of missionaries and ministries to serve ever since.
