April 29, 2008

So we are 4 days away from the BIG MOVE! Although we are so very sad to leave our families, friends and church behind. We are so very excited to see what the Lord has in store for us at Mooseheart. If this is new news to you let me share with you about our new adventure...

I would say this journey really began 19 months ago, or so. When Randy & I started dating the Lord directed us to First Church of the Nazarene in Indianapolis. I believe the Lord started His work on us the day we stepped foot in those church doors, February of 2006. Since then the Lord has been pouring His love on us by bringing a community of believers to our side in friendship at First Church.

The Lord started molding our hearts to be more ministry related in our free time. We got involved in the mentorship program with our youth, chaplain program with our church's soccer program, playing a support roll in our Saturday Night Worship Service and helping in any other areas in between. After about 6 months of marriage we both felt the Lord wanted to push us farther then Indianapolis ministry. We started a vast search online and separately both came across a ministry opportunity at Mooseheart Child City & School Inc. in Moosehear, IL.

We entered an extensive interview process there with the hopes to be hired on as "Family Teachers" were we would then live with 10 children and teach them every day life skills and behaviors. We were offered the job at the end of March and have seen the Lord continue to confirm that we are doing what He wants of us day after day after day. We have started this blog to keep all family, friends and our church up to date on our journey as well as communicate areas in which we could use support in prayer.

Some of you may be asking some questions so I'm going to do my best to answer the most frequently asked questions of us.

1) No we can't take our dog Winston with us. Very very very sad! We have found a home for him in Colorado with my brother, sister-in-law, nephews and niece which we are very happy about.

2) No we haven't sold our house, we are fortunate enough to hold onto it until we finish a few home improvements to put it in position to sell when the time comes.

3) Randy & I do get vacation days, personal days, sick days and 2 consecutive days off a week (more then likely not weekend days)

4) Yes we are encouraged to share our faith with these students. This is a lot of why we felt Mooseheart was the right fit for us.

5) Where exactly is Mooseheart, IL? Mooseheart is about 35miles west of downtown Chicago, just North of Aurora just about the center of Batavia.

This is the house we'll be living in, "Oregon House". There are 30 resident home's named after different states within the United States.

340 S. Fellowship Lane Mooseheart, IL 60539
www.mooseheart.org