Hello again…
Let me catch you up on everything since moving:
November:
Moved
Birthday for Libby
Finished a musical in Indy
2 new schools for the boys
2 new jobs for the parents
Thanksgiving with 2 sets of friends
No paycheck yet
December:
More friends visiting 1 st 2 weekends
Mid-month payday - Yippee!!!
Anniversary
Some Christmas shopping
Christmas with both sides of family
Paying up on bills - hadn’t been able to do that for a while
Quiet Christmas at home - just us - it was really nice
Nice end to a pretty crummy year.
January:
Quiet new year at home - just us
Still no church home up here
Celebrated John’s birthday back in Indy
Feeling isolated with no friends up here
Financially, things are improving
Now I’ll expound a little bit:
We are still looking for a church home. I don’t think our expectations are too high, but I do think that we will not attend some due to reminders of past hurts and experiences. We have visited 3 churches so far, 1 non-denominational, 1 another denomination and 1 Nazarene. The Nazarene is the best of the 3, making us feel the most welcome and comfortable. The non-denominational was nice too, but new and not offering much in the way of fellowship and no Sunday School: no times to get to know people and make friends, which is what we need right now. The other denomination is just not where we feel would be a good fit for us because of reminders of past negative experiences.
At this point we are looking at the Nazarene church being our church home here, but we are going to try one other before we make that decision. We just aren’t 100% sure this is the one God is placing us in. We haven’t felt that immediate connection like we have at the last 2 churches we’ve attended. Not to say that we have to feel that, but we don’t want to stop short of something else that God may have in store.
Well, gotta get to work. More later. My schedule is settling in, so I will be able to write more.
