I am packing again... I will be moving to New York City (or at least that area) to join my husband at our new challenge... Stepping into his father's shoes (while he still has them on) and taking the church from where it is to where it can be...
This has been an exhausting and heart-breaking experience complete with almost two months of every other weekend visitations with my beloved.
Hopefully this is the last move - well honestly New York was not my place of joy but I am a PW, I bloom where I am planted... And I also start my job as the Office Manager the New York Office of World Vision... (the international missions-based ministry)
Now the excitement is that I am supposed to start work on the 17th, I haven't got the slightest idea where we will be living when I get there - my husband has been staying with his parents, being his dad's babysitter and personal chauffeur... And since my husband has not really been working since he has left (that is to say that he has not been earning money, he has been working himself into a frenzy trying to get my father-in-law to take his medicine, go to the doctor, bathe, etc.) we do not have enough money to get a place... But that is nothing but an opportunity for God to do what he does best - make ways out of no way and make money out of no money!
I fortunately do not travel without a computer so I will be keeping an eye on the website... My silence has been because I have been overwhelmed with being a family in two cities... but my latter will be greater!
Which reminds me ladies - you must read Haggai in the Message translation... When you realize that we are called to bring the church back to its former gloryand realize that God himself has promised to bless us from now on it is awe-inspiring! I struggled with this because my father-in-law's church is SOOOOOOO traditional - they still have deacon-led devotions (its a black baptist thing) and the thought of a praise team has not even crossed their minds... And truly that is just not my flow of worship, but I believe that God's will is going to be done and I believe that the glory of this house shall be greater!!! There will be a lifting of the hands, the hearts and the eyes.
wow, wow, wow FLOW.............my heart is with you.
This is real quick because it's 2:30 am and I'm getting back from the hospital - one of our board members & wife just had a baby...so we're coming in and I'm checking mail quickly...very tired.
But.........WOW. I had no idea you were going through this to this extent. Thank you for telling us. We know how to pray. Keep us posted. We want to know what's happening.
