Some exciting news.....

... sorry for the delay.

We have some thing exciting to share, we had to wait till key people were informed, but if you see my boss please don't mention it yet, she will find out on Tuesday, when she gets back from her 2 week long motorcycle tour in Ontario.
As of September 1st 2010 my dearest husband will be starting a pastoral internship at Willingdon Church, Burnaby BC (www.willingdon.org, if you are interested) Meaning that we will be moving to Burnaby August 1st 2010. We will still be on board with Church Planting BC, but Matt will be spending a year in rigours study as well as learning the ropes of running a church hands on. We are so excited, we have been praying about this for a while, it is an amazing opportunity on top of it he will get paid a small salary to learn! Most people have to pay to learn this stuff. We have seen God open the doors all along our path and in the right moment He makes the way clear to us. There was no hesitation accepting the position. All though it means leaving our home, family and my job behind, we are confident that God will provide for all of our needs, as he always has.

We are now trying to plan ahead as much as possible, all though is is pretty hard at this point, we are mostly praying a lot! We will need a place in Burnaby because we would love to both be able to walk to work. There is the issue of me finding a new job down there. It will have to be full time and hopefully I will make at least what I do now. We are extremely bless to be getting paid by Willingdon, but Vancouver is a very expensive place to live. I am praying that God will provide a job for me that I enjoy, not just one I do because I need to make money. I would really love to be able to spend my days doing something that comes naturally to me and not something thing I have to constantly fight to do well at. It is much easy to enjoy your job when you feel like you can do a really good job at it, without going crazy or having your brain burnout due to over use (round peg square hole kind of thing).

I feel a mixture of excitement and nervousness. It is an adventure. I have never been too worried about change, in fact I usually like it. The thought of moving to a new city, getting a new place and meeting new people really excites me. Leaving family, and not knowing where I will work makes me nervous. It also makes me question how soon children will be on the agenda? Thhey will probably be postponed a little longer.

I really want to praise God for this opportunity! They made it pretty clear that they had never hired any intern with as little experience and schooling as Matt. Most interns they bring on have already completed seminary. Matt is an exception (again) he is also the first church planter they have brought on. Most of the other interns have just fed into the pastoral staff of their ever growing church. It is clearly and act of God that they offered him the position at all. We are very grateful to God.

I know the road ahead will not be easy, my prayer is that I will be able to fix my eyes on Him, His face, His purposes, His glory, above everything else in the whole world. Once again I have to lay down my desires at his feet and say "Your Kingdom come, your will be done, in my life, and on this earth as it is in heaven." That is hard to say sometimes! But I know that when I delight myself in Him He will give me the desires of my heart.
I would love your prayers as we make this transition.