It's been awhile since I posted. In my last posting I told you about changes for my family and me. Well, the month of March was intense, so we welcome April (and its showers) and hope to be settled in by May (and look forward to its flowers).
A brief rundown on the month of March... Julie and I flew, with our kids, from Denver to DC. I met with some churches, then a couple days later Julie flew to Uganda with doma international. I drove, with the kids, to southeastern Virginia and continued meeting with churches and sponsors - mobilizing world-changing and life-transforming orphan care. Then I spoke at two churches Sunday, Crossroads and Hampton Christian. It was such a blessing to be with my dear friends at Crossroads. It was there, in October 2003, that Julie and I first became acquainted with Children's HopeChest.
After a week in Virginia, I drove, with my kids, to Ohio, left them with my parents (poppa and grandma) and flew to Denver. A couple days after getting back to Colorado Springs, the packers and movers arrived and I tried to manage the pack and load in Colorado and work my last week full-time in the office at HopeChest. Then Julie went straight from Uganda to our new home in Ohio and tried to manage the unload and unpack while my brother and I drove from Colorado Springs to Columbus (it's making me tired to recount all this activity).
Now a couple weeks later, we are slowly but surely settling in. We are welcoming our new life and lifestyle in Columbus. I'm getting acquainted and acclamated at our new church, Upper Arlington Lutheran Church, and Julie is continuing to build doma and see exciting new opportunities emerge all the time.
We're getting used to living in a smaller house and an urban community (Columbus is the 15th largest city in the US and has 1.8 million when the metro area is included). We quickly figured out our basement gets water and that creaky old floors can wake up sleeping children, but other than that, everday it feels a little more like home.
My blogging will kick up again here soon. Honestly, it's a regular practice that I've missed, but it simply got pushed to the back burner for the last month or so. I'm looking forward to the normal rhythms of life returning again soon.
dan,
what happened with hopechest? did you fill called to another church? i mean you set our two churches up for unganda then moved? just curious on what made you do this, diane
Posted by: diane loy | April 07, 2009 at 10:03 AM
...and can we get back to chatting, via Skype this time, in May?
...hope so!
...prayers continuing
Posted by: Wes Roberts | April 07, 2009 at 12:49 PM