This last season has been a long transition in location. Here’s a timeline that shows a bit more of what it takes to move an entire organization and several families / teammates to a new country.
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Between Worlds
We’ve been in the states for a few weeks now reconnecting with family, participating in wedding festivites for a family member, meeting some of you (in groups and individually), and have already been sharing at a number of presentations!
It’s been a full time so far and so good overall, but also a bit surreal as we get weekly messages from our team as they pack up the office / homes ahead of us and scatter for the summer to their own home areas. Connecting with people here, coordinating zoom calls spread across several time zones about new visa unknowns, and trying to fundraise and plan for this next season, it does at times feel as though our life is stretched between worlds.
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BIG CHANGES
For 3.5 years now we have lived and worked alongside an incredible team of counselors in a richly diverse and beautiful country in the Middle East. We have fallen in love with it in so many ways, poured our heart and soul into making friends, learning the language, and navigating life in a new culture – in addition to serving the expat community. It hasn’t been easy, but we’ve thrived in many ways in this place. We are SO grateful.
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REFLECTIONS
We’ve been living in a new country for 7 months now! As we consider the life decisions that have landed us on the other side of the world, and how we’re doing amidst them, we’re overwhelmed mostly with gratitude. Our timing was interesting… I mean, nobody planned for us to be moving abroad amidst a pandemic. Or trying to learn a new language with masks and restrictions and lockdowns getting in the way. Or for one of our parents to get diagnosed with cancer. But we have been consistently surprised by blessing along the way and despite the unique challenges of this season, we are on our feet. So here are a few reflections 7 months in:
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Immersion & Adoption Updates
We’re finally cold! We had to leave our city and travel by plane to a new city to get a taste of fall and the changing colors, but we’re now wearing scarves and coats and kinda loving it. Although we’re still glad there’s more sunshine here than in Indiana 🙂 Why traveling? Well…
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COVID CHRONICLES CONTINUE
“I really wish you an ever deeper peace. I know that peace quite often lives underneath the turmoils and anxieties of our hearts and doesn’t always mean inner harmony or emotional tranquility. That peace that God gives us quite often is beyond our thoughts and feelings, and we have to really trust that peace is there for us to claim even in the midst of our moments of despair.”
Henri Nouwen
God’s timing isn’t always ours and we’re getting good lessons in that these days. In case you don’t get our emails, we just wanted to share an update here. We are delayed a little further due to COVID in our travels and were not able to travel on August 1 like we’d planned. We are hoping we can travel soon, but are keeping plenty busy here in the meantime.
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NEW DATES & REFLECTIONS
Our tickets are re-purchased and we are eagerly anticipating our departure on August 1! We are excited, a bit overwhelmed, and trying to wrap our brains around finally going after 4 months of limbo.
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Things are really on the move in 2020! So far…
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