Well, the winds of change have been blowing since the last post.
God has led and we are heading west again - this time to Oregon.
It was 10 1/2 years ago (October 2008) that we left the Pacific Northwest
and figured that it wouldn't be long until we were back "home."
In the process of time, "home" has been relocated to NC.
God had us stay in NC 7 years longer than anticipated.
There was so much that we had to learn -
about ministry, about relationships, about serving ...
But now we will head back ...
in much the same way we came ...
A Penske moving truck pulling a Focus on a car trailer.
There wasn't much to say goodbye to when we left WA so many years ago.
We had struggled to find a good church.
Many of the friends we made had left with or before us.
We had the excitement of no more deployments before us.
This goodbye is much harder.
We bought our first home here and are saying goodbye to it.
We have made friends who have treated us like family when we were far from our own.
We have a church family that has helped us through some tough times and loved us back to health.
But God's grace provides and sustains.
He sold our trailer quickly,
He provided a new job quickly,
As of last Friday, He provided a rental home that meets needs and eases us back into rental life.
And we rest knowing that He would not lead without providing a church and church family,
and so we anticipate finding our new place of ministry.
The trailer is more than half boxed and is looking less and less like home.
By the end of the day, there will be even more boxed up and ready to go.
The truck will be loaded on Thursday.
We head out on Friday morning and hope to be in Oregon in the middle of next week.
So that's the update.
I anticipate that with the move,
the blogs will be a little more regular for a while.
It is always hard to start over and it takes time to find my place of service and ministry
and those things that will keep me busy again.