On the move once again....

God is so good to us. I am blown away once again at his provision for our family.

On April 18th we will once again be moving. God continues to pour out his blessings over us in ways we have never even asked for. He ALWAYS knows what we need, and when we need it.

We have been living in a TINY apartment, and when I say TINY I mean like an apartment cut out for a single person. Not exactly an apartment made for a married couple and surely not for a married couple with a CRAZY three year old. Although it's been a tight squeeze we have managed just fine. The location has been amazing, and the view is pretty awesome too. You learn to take the good with the bad.

Yesterday out of nowhere the Principal of our school who's name is Grace (also a christian) asked us if we would be interested in moving into a larger and very nice apartment near the school. We told her we had just moved into the apartment we are living in now, paid a large deposit and we wouldn't be moving until this lease was up. She insisted that we come take a look at it, that she thought it would be great for our family.

We decided we would at least take a look at it. This apartment is in a beautiful community next door to school, has much more space and even newer furniture. We loved it when we walked through, but once again we didn't think we could get out of our current lease.

We told her we would go home and think about it, and she insisted we call our landlord right away to ask if he would let us move out with a one month notice. We gave our landlord a call, and his response was this: "Of course you can move out with a 30 day notice, and of course you can have your full deposit back."

Seriously?? This is not exactly the answer we were expecting!!!

So next month we will be moving to a MUCH nicer and bigger apartment right next door to the school. It's a beautiful neighborhood with TONS of sweet Chinese children, most of which are OUR students in the school we teach at.

We are very excited to say the least, and blown away at how God continues to see and meet our needs, all in his time.

I believe with ALL of my heart that he wants to have a place bigger so we can be hospitable to those in our community by inviting them into our own home.

I believe he is giving us MORE so that we can GIVE MORE.

I am mostly excited about the awesome opportunities to have these families in OUR home every week, to share LIFE with them. We adore our students, and would absolutely LOVE to have their parents over and really know them too.

This next week we are starting a brand new bible study in our apartment. We felt God tugging at our hearts to do this but we were discouraged at how it would be possible in our shoebox apartment. About a week ago we decided we would begin the bible study and start inviting our friends regardless of how small our apartment was.

I believe that because we said YES to what he has asked of us, he is blessing us with the space we need to host these sweet friends.

I pray that our new home will be a place where our friends feel embraced, safe, loved, and encouraged. I pray that while they are in our home the seed of Christ will be planted, watered, and nutured to grow.

Thank You God for you never ending love, grace and provision for family.

You are marvelous God .... And knowing You is everything.