I realized the other day that I haven’t shared much about our whole purpose for moving here to Eastern Washington… Fuel- our new youth ministry, and the worship team that Andrew leads on Sunday mornings. We’ve been here for almost 6 months now- hard to believe, and have settled in fast. We were welcomed by our new church with open arms and have felt really supported since we first came. When we got here, the youth ministry had dwindled down to about 15 regular attenders, and has grown to around 50 youth now, and growing! We are so privileged to be youth leaders, and Andrew has done an awesome job shaping the identity of our group, coming up with the name Fuel, as well as leading the worship team and organizing special services and things like that. He’s been very busy but because we live about 2 minutes from the church we see more of him than ever and are thankful for more time as a family. One of the biggest blessings for me since moving here is to be in ministry with Andrew again. I have been able to sing on worship team with Andrew about once a month, and get to be on staff with Fuel. We have a wonderful friend that watches Jude and rocks him to sleep on Wednesday nights so that I can be at youth group, and I will be starting up a small group with about 6 girls on Monday nights starting next week. I’ve also made some wonderful friends and we have some really amazing people on staff with Fuel and on the worship team. We are so grateful that God called us here.
This summer we’ll be putting on a high school camp for our youth, as well as driving down to Eureka to visit family and friends, and Andrew will be speaking at a week long summer camp down there, as well as speaking at our old church and officiating his first wedding ceremony! We’re looking for a house right now- and love to have visitors (in our apartment too!) so come on over! This area is really fun and we’re excited to explore it more this spring and summer.
That’s the overall update of our life here, more to come!