Micah and I went to the same college, Messiah University, and knew of each other but never really had a conversation or interacted much. He was on the soccer team and I was on the track and field team. We had some mutual friends (a lot of my friends were dating his friends) and in the years shortly after we graduated, a lot of those friends got married, so we attended a few of the same weddings. We were even in one together but still did not have much interaction with each other.

So fast forward about 6 months later, I’m sitting at a restaurant down the shore with my family and a notification pops up on my phone that someone messaged me on a social media site. I was very surprised to see it was from Micah asking me if I would be interested in grabbing coffee with him. After sitting and processing for a second and consulting with my mom and sister, I told him I would be interested in going out with him! He then called me the next day (like a true gentleman) to make the full plans!

The first date we met at a coffee shop in Pottstown PA because he claimed it was about half way between us. At the time I was living near Philly and he said he was near Lancaster, however when we got there he told me he came all the way from Altoona, PA (a 3 hour drive!!!). Little did he know that was the first of many long drives for him. On the first date I was impressed by Micah’s character, honesty, wisdom, passion for living life with purpose, and his love for the Lord and serving Him.

Micah and I dated for a little over 2 years before he asked me to marry him. Those two years consisted of lots of long drives on the weekends to visit each other (him driving way more often than me), adventures visiting friends and family in NC and Virginia, meeting “halfway” in central Pa and staying at the Flander’s house (shout out Nate and Tyra!), spending lots of time here with my family in Philly, beach trips, minor league baseball games with my dad and aunt (anyone who knows Micah knows how much he LOVES baseball—jk), watching EPL, lots of runs, and probably over 100 trips to get ice cream!

Over the past 2 years Micah has become my best friend and I can’t imagine spending my life with anyone else. I am so excited to marry him and we are both so excited to celebrate this covenant with our closest friends and family! Please pray for us as we embark on this new season of life together!

M&J

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