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This is only the beginning.
What a crazy past two years it has been!
We felt called to Franklin Tennessee back in March of 2024 and dreamed of farming, raising our own meat and fibre animals (throw in a bunch of layer hens for eggs) and so much more. It just seemed YoDads had taken a back seat for a while.
We were too busy farming and for some reason nothing we did with the YoDad shoes worked out. We found ourselves confused and questioning the whole thing. We felt like failures. Asking all the questions:
“What was the point?”, “Why couldn’t we get this business moving forward?”, “Why didn’t we feel any urgency or motivation to pour all we had into this business?”
Worse than failures, we felt like bad stewards of an amazing idea God had entrusted us with. Upon speaking with family and each other about the whole experience, we were reminded of all the blessings that came through YoDad - Your Kingdom Footprint.
So many lives were changed! We were able to donate to two separate missions to Africa. Testimonies of prayers answered right down to the smallest detail of needs reached us all the way from South Africa. We were able to come alongside the body of Christ to be the hands and feet of Jesus, here on earth.
We were even ministered to by a warrior of the Kingdom to whom we donated a pair of shoes in South Africa. God reminded us through all of you, that even though we might never see the harvest of the seeds we have planted along the way, it doesn’t mean those seeds never grew. We have been blessed in sooo many ways.
As we started feeling the end of our season here in Tennessee draw near, we asked God to move this mountain of shoes we had sitting in our trailer on the farm.
This would be the sign we needed to know that we are moving in God’s will. The last thing we wanted was to move, be outside of God’s will and end up in the belly of a whale, so to speak, hahaha! Anyway, as we were praying on morning, we barely got done saying “amen” when Ryan got a message on Facebook, someone was interested in all the shoes.
I wish I could say “we sold all the shoes that day!” but God had someone specific in mind, so He hacked Ryan’s Facebook, lol. Somehow we just felt icky about the guy who wanted to buy the shoes. Then all of a sudden Ryan couldn’t message him back, his profile was gone, then it looked like he had blocked Ryan. When Ryan went back onto his Facebook marketplace, it froze and freaked out… It took him about two days before he could get his Facebook marketplace back up and running.
By the end of that week we finally got the message, “we want to buy all to shoes to donate to people in Ghana”. We instantly felt a sigh of relief over the whole thing. We met Fred and Opokua-Opi from Soles of Hope and it was like God planned the whole thing from the beginning!
Our heart was to make a difference in people’s lives with YoDads. What an incredible difference, to know that all 794 pairs will be going to people in need of shoes, hope, and the love of God.
Ryan and I spent a week unpacking and wrapping all the shoes and packing them into wooden crates that Ryan had built. It was a Friday, we went to bed at 6pm, got up at 11pm, drove an hour away to pick up Fred in Nashville and drove off to Chicago to drop the crates off at a shipping yard. Fred said they will be going to Ghana over December and will send us lots of pictures of their mission trip.
We can’t wait to see the faces of those who will be planting Kingdom Footprints all over Ghana.
God is faithful, always! All glory to God!
And with that said, our new chapter begins.
Ryan & Chané
Your Kingdom Footprint