It's been 1 year...today!

It's really hard to believe that we've been @ Columbia Heights for one year now. We came to the church through a willingness to help out for a few months while the church went through a pastoral search. To my knowledge, they never even began a search, I think that when they found us they just began to 'hope' (and pray) that they could keep us. Our minds weren't there at all, not because we didn't want to, we just hadn't allowed ourselves to even dream about it or to think that far ahead. We knew what we were asked to do and that's what we were doing.

The weeks turned to months and it seemed that it was just the logical solution for us to stay. We were happy...they were happy...what else was there to do? We felt the Lord work in our hearts during those weeks and our hearts began to feel at home.

Speaking of home, this was such an interesting place for me (Elaine) to find myself, for, I was indeed home. Between the ages of 6-16 this church was my home. It was my dad's first pastorate and boy oh boy did I find myself in a lot of mischief during those years but it was all encompassed with wonderful, wholesome memories. I enjoy each week, meeting together with so many of the dear people that we met with back then...just another feeling of home.

There's no way to determine our future. God had this whole year planned so long ago and we are confident that the rest of our lives are in His hands...we're really just along for the ride.

family picture taken while we lived @ Hunters

this picture taken after we had been gone a few years and added a new baby to the family :-)

taken in front of the church - ready to leave for summer camp

written by Elaine