The Video finally worked.

IT WORKED!!!

And the winner is ...

 

Tonight we drew the winner for the raffle that we held for the New Ipad Air. We would like to thank all of you who purchased tickets.  We really appreciate your support!  Through your generosity we were able to raise more than $1700.  And the moment you have all been waiting for...watch the video to see if it was you!

.......................................Well after trying all night to get the video to upload, I had no luck.  So without further delay....the Winner is Tom Townsend.  Congratulations Tom!!

If we can get the video to work, we will upload it later.  It may show up on our Facebook page.

 

Long time no post.....

Sorry for the lack of updates lately.  You might imagine we have been a little busy.  Besides our normal life of busy schedules and activities with 5 children, we have been also working on getting ready for our trip.  We could have never imagined what that would mean until we found ourselves smack dab in the middle of it.

When you plan to leave for a trip, you usually stop the mail and the paper, get someone to watch your dog (or take it with you), ask your neighbor to keep an eye on the house, etc…

In this case we have a little more preparation than that.  And that is what we have been focused on.  One of our main focuses have been our home and what to do with it for 2 years while we are in the Dominican Republic.  Do we sell it or rent it?  We have prayed about it and asked God what we should do and the more we talked about it and prayed about it we felt like renting it was the right thing to do. 

We had this grand idea that we would simply find someone we knew or at least someone we could trust that needs to rent a house for a few years.  Sounds simple right, but how were we going to find this person or this family?  Maybe someone in our church….but that seemed too perfect to actually happen. 

Well as time went on and we were trying to figure out what we would do about our home, we got a call from someone at our church who heard that we were looking for a renter.  We were amazed!  This is exactly what we were hoping and praying for.   They came and checked out the house and it ended up that it just wasn’t right for them and their situation.  But, it was great to get to know them and share the story of how God is taking us on this journey. 

So we got our hopes up with that one.  We thought wow, God has come through again….and then it didn’t work out.  Was God trying to tell us something?  Are we just supposed to sell?  What should we do with the house?  It is not that we are really attached to it….so why do we feel strongly to rent? We found that the answer to all of these is TRUST.  Trust in the Lord.

A few weeks later, while we were still trying to figure it out ourselves J, I was talking to someone at Church whom I get to work with as a volunteer.  Not only is he a good man and someone I respect, he also just happened to be, along with his wife and three children, looking for a place to rent for a few more years.  They need to be out of their place in the Spring and hey, guess what???  That is about when we are planning to leave.  Long story short, they came and checked out the place and are going to rent it for the time we are gone.  Isn’t God amazing!!

I think we are learning more and more that if we just get out of the way and let God do His thing, and stop trying to be in control, things would get done a lot fasterJ