Tuesday July 8th was finally the day that we got to sign the papers to close on our house, YEAH!!! Actually... due to my work situation I (Christina) was not able to sign the papers for the house. Ben and I had to get a notarized Power of Attorney paper signed in order that Ben could sign for me on all the papers. Ben did a great job working through the mound of papers that they gave to him. I was able to make it for part of the signing when I got off of work. It was so cool to have them hand us the keys to our home and to immediately be able to move in. On Wednesday of last week Ben had the youth leader and 6 of the youth group members come to help us move our stuff from storage to our house. So we now have all of our stuff moved in, which is such a great feeling. We are loving our house and loving the settling in/decorating process. We have so much space to work with that it is not too difficult to have boxes everywhere. Slowly yet surely we are making it our home. We also have had a major need of buying a second car, and it was great because the Lord led us to just the right car. The second car is making our lives easier as our jobs are far apart from eachother.
Speaking of our jobs... we are settling in quite nicely. I started work last Monday the 7th for the Department of Child Services. I am in training for a total of 12 weeks, but have the first week under my belt. I am enjoying my training immensely and learning a lot that will be beneficial when I get put out on the field. I am in a class (they call us a cohort) of 22 people and we will be with eachother in this same training class until our graduation on September 29th. They are great people and we are learning how to work together as a team, which is essential for the type of job that I will be doing. Ben's job is also going well. It has been a bit of a slow start though for him since much of his focus has had to be on our move. The church was very flexible this past week with our closing and move to allow Ben the time to help us get settled and situated. Sunday, Ben took the opportunity to introduce himself to many of the volunteers and to observe the Sunday morning ministry in order to get a good idea of how he could best serve this ministry. It was very beneficial for him and he looks forward to putting all of his ideas into practice.
Praise the Lord for all of this coming into place for us. We can clearly see His hand in all that we are doing!
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Hey you guys! Congrats on the house. Kind of ironic, my wife and I just sold most of our stuff and we're in the middle of joining Mission Aviation Fellowship. I put your new address on our contact list so you'll be receiving our newsletters (hope you don't mind). Check out my blog at www.chriskonop8.blogspot.com for updates on what we're doing. We'll be heading through your area this fall, maybe we could stop by and catch up along the way!
-Chris Konop-
Hello There My friends,
I am so happy everything is working to your favor & your good. I do praise God with you. Girl Ain't God Good, he sure is.Ha ha that's the afro american version of Hallelujah, I know it's not spelled right, dont have time to look it up. Got to turn these phones off or Beth will shoot me, she has taken over your job of making sure I get them off on time,
Love ya until nest time. YES!!
Hey, obviously that was Mattie... not me... but since you now have to have a google/blogger account to leave a message, I put my info in... Anyway, we are really happy for you guys! Congrats (finally!)!
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