It’s almost been two weeks since we’ve arrived in Elkhart. For the time being (and the foreseeable future) we are staying with a friend who has graciously taken in us four (noisy, sticky, mess-making) Scatliffs. Our days have been filled with administrative stuff (obtaining social security numbers, applying for new insurances, establishing a new banking […]
Today marks one full week of being in Indiana. This past week has been far more emotionally challenging than I ever anticipated, but thankfully the past few days have drawn us back to what matters and I’m reminded as to why we are here. As I head to bed tonight, I’m clinging to words of […]
On Wednesday afternoon my mom, the kids, and I flew into South Bend, Indiana, the nearest airport to Elkhart. Tom and his dad (who drove the uHaul truck and arrived the night before) met us at the airport with the rental car. And just like that… After two years of support raising, lots of prayer, […]
This is it! We are, literally, going now!!! After an amazing crew of friends helped us pack the uHaul truck on Sunday, June 1st, Tom and his dad rolled out of town Monday morning – Elkhart bound! The kids, my mom and I are hanging back at a friend’s house to allow the guys a […]
This is it. Our last night in the place we’ve called home for four years. The place we scooped up in a heartbeat when we returned from serving in Ecuador. The place we brought our first child home from the hospital to. The place our second son surprised us by arriving while we were still at […]
This past week has been a BIG one for us! We traveled to Elkhart, Indiana for an important fund raising event last Saturday and this past Wednesday we traveled to the border again to have our visa applications adjudicated. The Lord walked ahead of us for both of them! The fundraiser was an awesome evening […]
Howdy! It’s time to take a giant leap of faith. We’ve given our landlord notice that we are out June 1st. Yup, June 1st. No, we don’t have our visas yet. Those will come, Lord willing, in the 3rd or 4th week of May. Considering we won’t have a home within a week of that […]
This is it. The time is now!! We are going – Lord willing and Lord providing – June 2nd, 2014. That’s 58 (broken) sleeps from now. And between now and then we need miracles. Lots of them. But if there’s anything we’ve learned in this process, it’s that waiting on miracles is an awesome […]
As we round the corner to the end of our time here in Manitoba, we are facing a few (mega) things and a few (mega) decisions need to be made. It feels a lot like a storm, with so many things swirling around: funding percentages and a start date, and everything that those affect (giving […]