The Church

Reading your blogs is so encouraging! Jamey preached on God's eternal purpose this a.m. - Christ being manifested through the Church (he's preached on this who knows how many times and yet somehow it is always "fresh"). He's always saying, "There is no Plan B!" Wall Family, did you ever dream you'd be doing this?! As Graham Cooke says, God is completely unchanging, but totally unpredictable! How else could He do more than we ask or imagine? Can't wait to hear about your first meeting!

Tod, I don't know how in the world you guys have any sanity keeping up with 4 kids who aren't wall flowers. I wouldn't think you were whining! I spent some time this afternoon trying to lay out my family's daily fall schedule and got a bit overwhelmed. I'm not sure we heard the Lord on letting McKenna try out soccer this year - RB thinks we missed Him on this one. We'll see - He is gracious and we can always drop something! We've got one week left until we dive in to this new school,etc. God may only have us there for one year, but we are very thankful. After leaving a get-to-know-the-new-teachers/parent dessert the other night at one of the school board member's homes, we left knowing that God undoubtedly has a purpose in us being there for whatever length of time we can. It's a new social "sphere" for us (one that we're not all that comfortable with, really), but I told RB that we cannot do the ministry God has called us to without many of these people - my sense is that God is going to use this time to make many divine connections in the city.

Not sure about our Labor Day plans yet. We're trying to figure out how to do the lake and still leave our kids margin to start a pretty strenuous schedule on Tuesday. May leave Sunday p.m.? Don't know yet, but we look forward to seeing everyone. Can't wait to hear more (and see the 500 pictures - ha!) of Alaska!

Blessings,
Anda

(normally, I'm not conscious at this hour, but was having trouble sleeping!)