Our love for dogs goes all the way back to Julie’s farm days. The family farm wasn’t complete without a good dog… and one even moved in a month after we got married! Twenty years, five kids, and one puppy later, we were called to move to Southern Haiti to serve as missionaries where we were blessed to work alongside a great team of locals who became strong supporters and friends.
One of our “teammates” at our house in Haiti was our faithful German Shepherd, Mitzi. She was a gentle guard dog who did her job well keeping us safe and offering needed companionship and protection. When we would go to our neighbor’s house ¼ mile down the road, she would run up the stairs to the rooftop of the concrete house and gaze out through the railing anxiously waiting sometimes for hours until we would return where she would run to the gate and welcome us home!
Our 2.5 years in Haiti were both hard and rich. An ATV accident that caused a complex injury on my (Kurt’s) dominant left elbow and required our daughter Kylie to be airlifted back to the states with life threatening head injuries has life-altering effects on all of us. On top of that, 12 months later, we again were required to leave when our middle son Corban was diagnosed with T-Cell ALL Leukemia. Yet, everything that we went through paled in comparison to the hardship and suffering that we saw around us.
The story ended well for us. Our daughter was healed. My broken elbow was mended. Our son’s Leukemia is in remission, His treatments are complete and the prognosis is good. Yet, the next chapter continues… and in my heart, God’s spirit whispers “what more will you do for Me.”
We’ve learned to trust God more and have been surrounded by a caring and compassionate team… our Haitian Coworkers, the church, mission and missionary community. The gifted doctors and nurses at OSF St Jude Children’s Hospital that have given us life saving and compassionate care along the way. We cannot begin to repay the blessings that we have been given but we can do our small part. We can empathize more deeply. We can love the Lord more devoutly. We can support the organizations and the ministries that have blessed us so abundantly. And we can trust in God who is our anchor when life’s storms surround us. We can continue to hope in Him. Not a transient hope that is conditional according to the circumstance or outcome, but an eternal hope that keeps us secure when we put our faith and trust in Him.
Our Initiative. We serve an Amazing and Wonderful God. In order to give back to the organizations that have blessed us SO abundantly, 15% of the Puppy Sales of Blue Skye Kennels will be donated to the MEBSH Construction Department in Les Cayes, Haiti and St Jude OSF Children’s Hospital.
Meet the Schrocks.
Kurt and Julie and our five kids are a Central Illinois family with family farm, small business, faith driven mid-American roots. For us, Dog breeding is more than just a part-time family project , it’s a passion.
