Robert and Krystal’s wedding, apartment, & life

Krystal and Robert are both missionaries in Germany. They are getting married. They literally don’t have any furniture for their apartment.  They have been gifted a place for a honeymoon, but spending money is minimal. She has been skimping in her wedding as well. We want to bless the socks off these amazing people that are so generous with their finances and life to serve the Lord.  Let’s serve them back. 

Here’s a bit of their story:

Robert comes from a complicated past with a lifestory that will need to be made into a book someday. I am constantly impressed by how much he has spent life discovering truth and solutions and then turning to face even the difficult things head-on. God has been with him and walked every step of the way even before he was fully conscious of this role God was having in his life.

Krytal comes from a deeply-rooted Christian (Nazarene) family. She says "I have never questioned the truth of God and only had the task of making Him my own God, not just my family’s... which is also a bit of an adventure, because life with Jesus always is!"

Robert had lived in various countries on four continents, taken on various jobs, and mostly meeting lots of interesting people! In 2014 he attended a service with “Kirche in Aktion” (literally "Church in Action") the Sunday after meeting some of their members at a nightclub and feeling like there was “something different” about them (side note - one of the guys there that night opened his own atelier as a gold smith and he is the one that made their wedding rings!). Robert heard a testimony that deeply moved him and he began to volunteer for the church. He was baptized in a pool at a church retreat and soon was asked about pursuing full-time ministry. He accepted the call and gave up his start-up company and other career options.




When Krystal reflects on her life, she realizes in awe and wonder how gracious God has been:

"I had always expected marriage to be around the corner for me and was a bit baffled as to why I was 40, pursuing what God had for me (which was first learning and living in a dynamic Christian community in Seattle and then being called to Portugal for ministry) and still single. I thought i would be ministering in Portugal for the rest of my life... until there were a series of events, including a dream that lead to a direct pointing of me attending the Church in Action new year’s retreat where He confirmed that i should move and work with Church in Action. It is also the retreat where Robert had been baptized 4 years earlier and as he had since become a city pastor with Kirche in Aktion, it is also where we met for the first time.

My mom had spent my whole life praying for the person I would marry. After the new year’s party I returned home to the United States and in that short trip my mother was diagnosed with leukemia and after a long, but short 3 weeks she passed away. She never met the person I was to marry, but he and i had met each other before she went to heaven. We can’t help but wonder how much of us coming together is really a testimony to the power of prayer.

The obvious way God led me to Church in Action meant I knew without doubt that despite wanting to stay and be near my dad and brother after my mom’s death I needed to continue with the move from Portugal to Germany. During the time i moved a group of pastors, including Robert, were finishing their masters thesis AND it just so happened that Robert was writing his about coffee shop ministry...
which is exactly what I had been doing in Portugal for the last seven years! So, obviously, we needed to work together a bit and meet up often! Months later we started dating and here we are today, marrying on my mom’s birthday, which happens to fall on a Sunday this year - the day of the week I have dreamed of marrying.




Is there more to this story? Obviously! I haven’t even mentioned Covid-19 and cultural things! But the biggest part of the story is how two people from across the globe, but built for each other, have been lured by the grace of God into each others lives after 40 years of life and what that might mean for the rest of their lives together!!! There is no reason to wait any longer!