Christ Communicator

Read the New Testament in 90 days.  Saturday is March 1, but you can get a head start this week!  I’d be curious to know if you might take up this challenge.  Leave a comment or send an e-mail.

On Valentine’s day, I invited Katie to travel with me to one of my upcoming trips (airplane ride and all!), and this was her reaction:

Yesterday at the Bible Study at Park U., there were eight of us total, and five of those in attendance were students from Kenya. Two young ladies from Kenya have come for two weeks in a row, Marianne and Rachel. What a joy to teach the Bible to these students! Please pray that this Bible Study would impact not only Kenyan students, but students from many nations. 

If the inspections go well this Saturday, Patty, Katie, Luke, and our little one on the way will be moving into a home a few minutes away from the house we are currently renting. We began looking seriously about a month ago, knowing that our lease would be coming to an end for this house which will go for sale soon (out of our price range). We looked at more houses than I can remember, and houses in our price range were typically too small or way too much work (and thus ultimately too expensive). On Saturday, we viewed what will be our new home (it went on the market last Thursday), we were back their Sunday afternoon, and on Monday we made an offer. For any who have purchased a home, you know that all of this was tense and full of questions yet excitement–added to our situation was the fact that this house is terrific and a really, really great price, and there were two other offers we were competing with. Our realtor called us Monday at about 8 pm to say that she didn’t think we would hear anything until Tuesday. She was wrong. She called back at about 9 pm to tell us the beneficiary of the owner accepted our offer. Then our realtor called us the next day to tell us that the furniture in the house comes with the home (Nice, huh?). Our thoughts range from “God has been so good to us to provide this house, at this price, in this location,” to “Um, what have we just gotten ourselves into???” The closing is scheduled for February 29. My mom, who was in town (with Dad) over the weekend, took the picture above. For some reason it’s fuzzy, but I’m not sharp enough to know why. If you click on the picture, the fuzz disappears.

We have some enjoyable days ahead as far as hospitality is concerned:

1.  My parents will be with us this weekend. We will be celebrating the birthdays of both my dad and me (January). Fun times.

 2.  Toward the end of February, we will be hosting a young couple (and five month old baby) who is interested in the internship program in our church.

3. For a few days in March, a young lady from Kasakhstan will be visiting us from Ohio. Her name is Aigerim, and she attended our church in Ohio (she is still attending Ohio University).  She loves Katie and Luke, and they think she is great.

4.  Toward the end of March, it’s looking like a pastor friend is going to be visiting with his wife and their baby. He is interested in finishing his seminary degree at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary here in KC.

5.  Oh, and in June, somebody is coming not just for a visit, but to live with us permanently!  We will be finding out if the baby is a boy or girl soon.