...and we're off!
It's hard for us to believe that in only 3 days we will be puddle-jumping the Atlantic and landing ourselves in Edinburgh. We flew to Washington D.C. this morning to be a part of National Community Church's Missions Program, will visit here through Sunday, then fly to Edinburgh Monday morning. Praise God; we're on our way!
It is quite amazing to look back now on the past couple weeks and all that has been accomplished. Just today, as we stepped off the plane in D.C., we got a text message from the Foleys saying that the letting company has approved our application for an apartment and the keys will be waiting for us Monday! Tony and Yvonne have been a tremendous help in the apartment search process; viewing and calling on multiple places almost daily for us. They've even thought of going ahead of us and stocking the kitchen with some food and preparing the bed for us...they've been so great; we're really very excited to see them again!
This apartment that we got, they say, is an old victorian house with three levels (we'll be renting the ground floor) with a very spacious living room, large bedroom, washer and tumble dryer, fully furnished, nice decor, right smack dab in the middle of the city...all for 550 pounds a month! God is SO good...He has provided for us everything we asked in an apartment. Thank you for your prayers as well!
So, visas in hand, we've packed virtually everything we own into six suitcases (shipped some extras) and have begun our travels to Edinburgh. This time in D.C. will be awesome; it already has been! Just this afternoon we had lunch with Joel Schmidgall, who had also arranged for us to meet with a couple key figures at NCC: Heather (heading up Small Groups) and David (media...mastermind?).
Both David and Heather were extremely helpful and let us ask questions about their experiences, explaining some of their vision and methodology, sharing some of their tools and resources and overall giving us the opportunity to absorb their insight. There is a lot more planned for this weekend here in D.C.; we hope to connect with lots more people and really take in these last days in the States!
P.S. THIS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A MUCH MORE ACTIVE BLOG!! KEEP CHECKING BACK!
It is quite amazing to look back now on the past couple weeks and all that has been accomplished. Just today, as we stepped off the plane in D.C., we got a text message from the Foleys saying that the letting company has approved our application for an apartment and the keys will be waiting for us Monday! Tony and Yvonne have been a tremendous help in the apartment search process; viewing and calling on multiple places almost daily for us. They've even thought of going ahead of us and stocking the kitchen with some food and preparing the bed for us...they've been so great; we're really very excited to see them again!
This apartment that we got, they say, is an old victorian house with three levels (we'll be renting the ground floor) with a very spacious living room, large bedroom, washer and tumble dryer, fully furnished, nice decor, right smack dab in the middle of the city...all for 550 pounds a month! God is SO good...He has provided for us everything we asked in an apartment. Thank you for your prayers as well!
So, visas in hand, we've packed virtually everything we own into six suitcases (shipped some extras) and have begun our travels to Edinburgh. This time in D.C. will be awesome; it already has been! Just this afternoon we had lunch with Joel Schmidgall, who had also arranged for us to meet with a couple key figures at NCC: Heather (heading up Small Groups) and David (media...mastermind?).
Both David and Heather were extremely helpful and let us ask questions about their experiences, explaining some of their vision and methodology, sharing some of their tools and resources and overall giving us the opportunity to absorb their insight. There is a lot more planned for this weekend here in D.C.; we hope to connect with lots more people and really take in these last days in the States!
P.S. THIS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A MUCH MORE ACTIVE BLOG!! KEEP CHECKING BACK!
posted by kschmiddy at 5:07 PM
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You all rocked at the Friday night dinner. We're so excited to see your passion & gift mix coming together in this God ordained opportunity! Plus now we have an excuse to take a missions trip to Scotland!!! Go get em!
Joel Schm(as in mom)id(as in dog)all
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