Our Ebenezer (and I dont mean Scrooge)

In the Old Testament, sometimes when God would do something incredible for the Israelites, they would build a memorial to remember how God saved them, or protected them, or helped them, or whatever God did to demonstrate His love and His power to them. These stones of help or remembrance are called Ebenezers.
The road to Indianapolis is such a significant one in our lives. As a child, my family would travel several times a year through Indy on our way to visit family in Ohio. Tim's family lived in Indiana near the border with Illinois which causes him to also be familiar with this particular stretch of road. As a couple, many major life events for us have also involved the road to Indianapolis.
On May 28, 2008, we joined our families in a van and headed to Indy to participate in training prior to our departure to Kenya on June 3. As we rode along with our families chatting about what the next 2 months might hold for us, we both knew God had some pretty incredible things in store.
On July 7, 2010, Tim and I drove to Indy to attend the North American Christian Convention. Mary Kamau (from Missions of Hope in Nairobi) was speaking and many of our friends were going to be in attendance. We were excited and as the conversation in the car progressed we found ourselves talking about Kenya and really wondering where God was leading our lives. We had been pursuing many different things and nothing was happening. The only thing not leaving our hearts was returning to Kenya. So we found ourselves asking, "Why not now?" and "What are we waiting for?" We decided on the road that we would begin the conversation with CMF about full-time missionary service. God orchestrated some cool happenings on this trip that assured us that pursuing Nairobi was the right thing, His thing.
On October 15, 2010, after our very intense application for missionary service had been completed, psych evals and personality tests had been completed and discussed, physicals had been done, we headed for Indy for the last step in the process to affiliating with CMF as missionaries. We wrapped up our weekend at the Assessment Center with affiliation with CMF.
Much like the Israelites so many years ago, we consider the road to Indianapolis to be our Ebenezer.  A reminder to us of God's love, His provision in our lives, His plan.