January...

It has been a long time since I have written but a lot has been going on. We had a wonderful Christmas and New years. We had a great visit with our old friend Alyse. We went to Gatlinburg/Knoxville for TCTC and to visit Crossings last weekend. It was great to have a nice suite close to the convention and have no agenda. We slept in and hung out with friends and did it all on our terms with no one to supervise but our own kids, which was wonderful. Crossing was amazing and we had a really good lunch and conversation with Mark, the lead pastor and his wife Monica. This past weekend Thomas and I went to VA for Kenzie's baby shower. It was a lot of fun to be with family and see her cute belly. Dave and Jeremiah had a boys weekend and went to the movies, a monster truck show and an Air force museum. Good times!!

But one Big thing that has changed for us is that Dave and I have been praying for months about this calling we have felt to do something in Blacksburg/Christiansburg. We feel like we need to work to pursue it so Dave has dropped down to part time for the next few months and will focus on finishing his masters here and on spiritual growth to be ready for what we feel may be our next step of planting a church in the southwest VA area of Va Tech. I have accepted a full time position at work and will be working 3 nights a week now to cover our expenses. We are excited to see what God leads us to do and are open to following the calling. Dave will finish school in December and we are hoping to tentatively move back to VA and start networking and making connections and developing relationships with people. We have no big plans any time soon but will just follow Gods prompting. Please pray for our family as we transition into new work habits. It is a blessing we have this option and we are very thankful as to how God worked it all out.
We are excited! This is a fun and crazy ride we are on and we are just holding on and enjoying it!!!