Wow. It's been forever. My apologies; big life changes have been happening in the last month!
End of August brought on a crazy chain of events... my living situation was changed last minute, and Savhna and I ended up moving in with my dad. CRAZY, to say the very least... that is a whole other issue for a different day. Anyway, within the 3 days of moving to my dads and having stress levels through the roof, I was laid off at Chicago Title. This was a really sad thing for me surprisingly. For some reason I thought I'd be sort of relieved... but I was devastated! I miss the people so much, and even to this day, I still catch myself thinking about them all the time. I saw Carmen today and actually have been in to visit a few times :) I was in and out of the doctor's office with this horrible rash/hives that came out of nowhere. Originally my family and I thought it was an allergic reaction that I'd gotten from a lunch in Bremerton for nanny's 80th. Wrong. It continued for the next 2 weeks and I still see signs of it today. It's been insane, itchy, and uncomfortable to say the very least.
Moral of the story: It's been SUPER transitional. Just a crazy month. Last weekend we had our annual YL kick off weekend, and it was great. We welcomed Lexi (proud mama I am ) and Kyle Thon to our team. It's been an exciting ride and I'm blessed to have them as team members this year. I'm babysitting as much as i can because i'm trying not to freak out about my current financial state! But as October just began, I'm getting SO excited for our Ethiopia trip! We leave in 28 days... it is approaching quick. We have been finalizing our last steps toward our trip; we have a huge packing party at the end of the month, and we are also being commissioned by our church at the end of the month. Usually for missions to go out they commission each team at the Refuge each month. It's typically a smaller gathering and just happens one time a month. On the weekend of the 24th and 25th, at ALL four services, our church will be commissioning us off:) That's INCREDIBLE! They really want to make it clear to our church how big of a deal this is; so every single person at any service will be involved. It's going to be great, and I'm very excited!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Nanny, Africa, Moving, && Chicago Title
Sorry it's been awhile, it's been crazy around here for awhile.
Nanny is in the hospital and the status of her situation is more like a rollercoaster than anything I have ever seen. Mornings are different than afternoons and nights are different than the two before. She has been back and forth between ICU and general rooms since last Thursday. She went from heart failure, to pneumonia, to dimensia, to her lungs filling with fluids... from loving us, to hating us to not knowing who we are. It's been insane to say the least. So please keep her on your prayer lists becuase we really don't know what will be next with her. Right now she is stable, but like I said, nothing stays the same for too long.
Africa plans are coming along greattttttttt, I sent out support letters a few weeks back and have received 3 checks back (thank you SO much to all who are supporting financially), it is SUCH a big help. Only downside is that a lot of our Ethiopia meetings are conflicting with my Young Life meetings. I'm on the Selection Committee to help pick out our new area director, and that's a huge honor, but a lot of work also. We are meeting this month to interview a few candidates, so that should be interesting :)
Mom is moving to Seattle this week...it is CRAZY. I really don't know how I'm going to survive without her! A lot of trips to Seattle is my guess... I'm also moving out at the end of the month to live with Kjerstin and Savahna out on Lake Samish. It's basically my ideal living situation so I'm really looking forward to it. Another thing that has been heavily on my heart lately is what to do about work @ Chicago Title. It's SUCH a great job, and I know a lot of people my age and even older would love to have this job. It really has the potential of being a career...from where I am at now I could only move up and I could be working here for a long time. Some people in our office have been here for 40 years.
For some reason though I am just feeling really unsatisfied with this place, especially lately. I'm questioning what to do, becuase originally I took the job to pay for my Africa trip...now that I have, I don't know what I'm doing here anymore. Long term I would really love to work in Ministry, but I just haven't seen any signs of opportunities lately. My fear is that God won't open up the door to Ministry until I've shut the door on Corporate America (aka Chicago Title). But the waiting time in between is REALLY scary. The biggest part of me knows the Lord will provide, but I am still struggling with really taking the initiative to leave this job behind. Anyway, I don't know what to do... still trying to figure it out, but we will see I suppose. Hope all are doing well :)
Nanny is in the hospital and the status of her situation is more like a rollercoaster than anything I have ever seen. Mornings are different than afternoons and nights are different than the two before. She has been back and forth between ICU and general rooms since last Thursday. She went from heart failure, to pneumonia, to dimensia, to her lungs filling with fluids... from loving us, to hating us to not knowing who we are. It's been insane to say the least. So please keep her on your prayer lists becuase we really don't know what will be next with her. Right now she is stable, but like I said, nothing stays the same for too long.
Africa plans are coming along greattttttttt, I sent out support letters a few weeks back and have received 3 checks back (thank you SO much to all who are supporting financially), it is SUCH a big help. Only downside is that a lot of our Ethiopia meetings are conflicting with my Young Life meetings. I'm on the Selection Committee to help pick out our new area director, and that's a huge honor, but a lot of work also. We are meeting this month to interview a few candidates, so that should be interesting :)
Mom is moving to Seattle this week...it is CRAZY. I really don't know how I'm going to survive without her! A lot of trips to Seattle is my guess... I'm also moving out at the end of the month to live with Kjerstin and Savahna out on Lake Samish. It's basically my ideal living situation so I'm really looking forward to it. Another thing that has been heavily on my heart lately is what to do about work @ Chicago Title. It's SUCH a great job, and I know a lot of people my age and even older would love to have this job. It really has the potential of being a career...from where I am at now I could only move up and I could be working here for a long time. Some people in our office have been here for 40 years.
For some reason though I am just feeling really unsatisfied with this place, especially lately. I'm questioning what to do, becuase originally I took the job to pay for my Africa trip...now that I have, I don't know what I'm doing here anymore. Long term I would really love to work in Ministry, but I just haven't seen any signs of opportunities lately. My fear is that God won't open up the door to Ministry until I've shut the door on Corporate America (aka Chicago Title). But the waiting time in between is REALLY scary. The biggest part of me knows the Lord will provide, but I am still struggling with really taking the initiative to leave this job behind. Anyway, I don't know what to do... still trying to figure it out, but we will see I suppose. Hope all are doing well :)
Monday, July 27, 2009
Helllooo Blogging World...
Wellllll. I figured it was time to join in on the world of Blogging. My biggest reasoning behind that being my trip to Africa soon. I figured since I had a lot of supporters out there in the internet world, I might as well keep this up so that you guys can keep track of my progress and the other things going on in my life. It's a bit easier than sending out email after email.
It's almost the end of July and I'm really starting to gear up to get ready for Ethiopia. My trip is almost all paid off and now I'm just needing to finish up and pay for the rest of my shots as well as some extra money for buying some supplies (listed below) we will need on our trip. Our trip count is at 14! Amazing! My mind is really blown with this number considering where we stood at the beginning of our trip. I remember when there was just me, Kristin (our trip coordinator) and one other married couple. We felt like our trip was never going to lift off the ground and we might never reach our goal of 10 people. Through a lot of prayer and meetings we finally came to what we thought was our final group. Then some dropped out...others had to leave...and for all sorts of reasons our group was again growing and then shrinking again in size. As of yesterday, we finalized our number at 14, and I can safely say I feel that the Lord really knows and wants every single one of us on this trip.
I apologize in advance for the length of this, but it's best to get it all out now! I leave October 29th for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From there we will spend about a day or two just getting settled in where we will then head off on a van for a 6 hour drive through mountains to Mekele a small village outside of the capital. We will be working with Dr. Geb, who grew up in an orphanage in Ethiopia; he grew up and in the process found the Lord and made his way to becoming a Doctor. He specializes in working with HIV/AIDS patients, and we will be helping him build a new hopsital to cater to the needs of those in the Mekele region. We will be there for several days before heading back to Addis for a few more days. We plan to return mid November. Our hearts are very much already rooted in Ethiopia because 2 of the families that will be coming with us adopted from Ethiopia last year. We are still in need of these supplies:
It's almost the end of July and I'm really starting to gear up to get ready for Ethiopia. My trip is almost all paid off and now I'm just needing to finish up and pay for the rest of my shots as well as some extra money for buying some supplies (listed below) we will need on our trip. Our trip count is at 14! Amazing! My mind is really blown with this number considering where we stood at the beginning of our trip. I remember when there was just me, Kristin (our trip coordinator) and one other married couple. We felt like our trip was never going to lift off the ground and we might never reach our goal of 10 people. Through a lot of prayer and meetings we finally came to what we thought was our final group. Then some dropped out...others had to leave...and for all sorts of reasons our group was again growing and then shrinking again in size. As of yesterday, we finalized our number at 14, and I can safely say I feel that the Lord really knows and wants every single one of us on this trip.
I apologize in advance for the length of this, but it's best to get it all out now! I leave October 29th for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From there we will spend about a day or two just getting settled in where we will then head off on a van for a 6 hour drive through mountains to Mekele a small village outside of the capital. We will be working with Dr. Geb, who grew up in an orphanage in Ethiopia; he grew up and in the process found the Lord and made his way to becoming a Doctor. He specializes in working with HIV/AIDS patients, and we will be helping him build a new hopsital to cater to the needs of those in the Mekele region. We will be there for several days before heading back to Addis for a few more days. We plan to return mid November. Our hearts are very much already rooted in Ethiopia because 2 of the families that will be coming with us adopted from Ethiopia last year. We are still in need of these supplies:
- Paint Brushes
- Shoes for ages 3-17 (we will also be buying shoes there b/c it's less expensive there, so we are also taking shoe $ donations)
- Paint Tape
- Paint Tarps
- Paint Pans
- Rollers
- Older children's antibiotics and cold medicines
If you are feeling called to help with ANY of these items, please call me so I can give you an address at which to send it to (in the process of moving and want it to end up in the right spot!). Hopefully this works for an update thus far, I will definitely be keeping everyone posted on my progress; until then my team and I would really appreciate your prayers!
Also, here is a map below of where will be!!
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