GOOD NEWS Announcement: RMI's "Wise Woman in Waiting" is waiting no longer! 

From Erin: When it was suggested that I personally record the announcement, I asked the Lord "Where and how do I begin?" He took me back and back and back to 1990. I had just lost the second of two babies. My husband was gone and was living with the OW.

At the time, I thought I couldn’t possibly pray for a baby because I first needed to pray for my marriage to be restored. But the Lord told me not to wait and to pray for both. I did. My husband returned in March of 1991 and a week later, my husband was given special permission to attend an "advanced" seminar and on the drive home, he said, "we need to trust God for your fertility" proving that "nothing is impossible with God."

Three months later, in June, while on a trip to visit his family in Minnesota, I realized after coaxing each of the children to "tell daddy we need to stop to use the bathroom" that of course—I was pregnant! I took the test in Minnesota and although the news wasn’t at all "welcomed" as I had imagined, I was the happiest woman in the world.

One year after my marriage was restored, Tara was born in March 1992! That was 29 years ago. 

Today I am thrilled to announce that my
RESTORATION baby, Tara, is getting married.

On August 20, 2021, she will be joined, as One, to Gentry Stanley!

"A virtuous woman who can find, for her worth is far above jewels."

“Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all…
a woman who fears the Lord she shall be praised.”

In 2021, many daughters will get married but only one in a million will have saved herself for marriage. Tara is not just a virgin— she has remained morally pure for 29 years!!

One year after Erin's marriage was restored, after she prayed not just for her marriage but to also fill the pain of having just lost two daughters, Tara was born in March 1992! That was 29 years ago. 

After my husband left me with four young children and the Lord showed me His promise "nothing will be impossible with God" [that's on RMI's Home page because nothing IS impossible with God], I knew that this promise He gave me wasn’t just for restoring my marriage but it was for everything! Everything that is right and good and everything that He lays on our hearts HE is more than able to do it because HE is God.

The Lord used homeschooling as the means, the protected environment, for this to take place and also by planting this truth and desire into my children when they were very young—by telling them stories. How thankful, how grateful I am to the Lord for giving me these allegories, first the "Wedding Clothes" and later the "River of Life" so my children could understand at a very young age the importance and beauty of saving themselves for marriage. 

I'm so amazed how Tara, in particular, was spared from ungodly influences because she has never attended any school—even though there were so many times the opposition came to prevent that from continuing "nothing is impossible with God." Even when she was mocked and pressed to know why she wasn't "going to college," she SSG "simply sought God" ready with His answer. Her resolved heart opened the door for Tara to travel around the world—sharing her testimony of saving herself for marriage and forgoing college allowed GOD to instruct her and prepare her for the life He was calling her to.

Not only was she spared from having to attend school, while I was pregnant with Tara, Restoration Fellowship was also just beginning. From the moment God formed her ears, she began hearing the Spirit of truth. Each week as I stood at the podium sharing the newly forming lessons from A Wise Woman Tara's spirit was being washed with the truth. Then as a brand new baby, I would cradle her in my arms while nursing her in the middle of the night, as I was writing each Wise Woman chapter!

A Long Wait! 

When I spoke to the Lord about Tara He reminded me, again and again, "Tara needs just one man" and that young man, Gentry, was the man Tara was waiting to find her—the one man who'd waited for her— not just morally but he saved his heart and his love for her as well. It all happened suddenly and rather remarkably.

Gentry saw a picture of Tara while she was hugging Sara goodbye. The picture was taken on July 19, 2018, as they were parting from the "living the abundant life tour." Sara's tour was ending but Tara's journey continued—traveling through 8 more countries before Gentry would reach out to her for the first time.

Let me remind you, Tara was "living the abundant life" even though she was single and wanted more than anything to be married and have children. Tara chose to WAIT on the Lord, which allowed her to "renew her spiritual strength" so she would be ready for the man GOD had chosen and the man who said, "the moment I saw her picture I knew she was the one I had been waiting for." Again, that was 8 countries later (8 means New Beginnings). After Italy, Tara journeyed to the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Australia, England, France, Turkey, and then it was in Spain that Gentry reached out to Tara for the first time.

Their love story begins when Gentry saw Tara's picture, then sent her an Instagram message. But after some texts, communication dwindled away. Then in September 2020, he reached out again, just one more time, and had decided to let go if nothing happened. After a few more chats, communication dwindled again and Gentry left his phone number. 

Knowing nothing about any of this, months later, in January 2021, I'd asked the Lord several times about Tara's future because I began hearing for the first time "Tara will meet 'him' this year." Prior to this, I would only hear it "was close." Finally in February, after hearing this so many times, I decided to tell Tara, "I could be very very wrong but I just sensed I need to tell you what I heard."

It was in April 2021, when Tara said Gentry's name kept coming to her mind, so she told the Lord that if this was "him" that He would show her what to say and when to contact Gentry who she really didn't remember much about. *I never knew about this until months later, in July, when Tara and I met on FaceTime, and told me she met the man she was going to marry!!

Tara told me she had waited one week, and then, following God's lead, she reached out to Gentry and he replied just moments later. For the most part, Tara wanted to know what Gentry's beliefs were on EVERYTHING that mattered to her. She was amazed how everything he believed and felt was what she had hoped for in a husband (she let him talk while she listened). That's when she agreed to FaceTime to get to know him. Soon they agreed to meet face-to-face. Gentry looked for a flight but couldn’t find one soon enough— so he just began driving from Missouri to Phoenix, Arizona!

Before returning back to Missouri, Gentry asked if Tara would fast three days with him so they knew what God wanted them to do next. After the fast, he said, “It's clear that we need to live by each other and since I am the man I need to come to you.“ Gentry immediately sold almost everything he had, packed his car, and moved to Arizona! He stayed in an Airbnb— where he’d been living until they got married and he moved into Tara's apartment to live as a married couple!

All that I could think of when Gentry told me this and I pondered what he's said, was that this promise that I felt led to share with him, “he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord” and Gentry replied, "Wow, that's one of my favorite verses."

Later, when connecting with Gentry's mother, this is what she texted me: "The funny thing is Gentry has told us over and over down through the years that he was saving himself. We have always been very thankful for that." Later I discovered that this is a generational blessing passed down to him from his father and grandfather—another dream and desire of Tara's heart.

If you have been reading any of the new His Princess Series, then you know that my family came from an excessive amount of monetary wealth that disappeared due to divorce, and infidelity. Gentry’s family comes from a deep-rooted and excessive spiritual well, a well that never fades away and cannot be stolen!! This is what both Tara and I personally prayed for her future husband and for her future children to have for a father and grandfather.

When Tara told me during one of our every other week virtual lunches (since we live three times zones away from one another), she told me "Mom, we're going through A Wise Woman and A Wise Man, we're on chapter 3." 

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Thank you all for your love and support—and for joining with me as together we agree that.. Glory belongs to Him.. who by His mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.” Ephesians 3:20 TLB

~ Erin
More than ever "I am lovesick!" head over heels in love with my Heavenly Husband!