I am sitting in my pjs listening to love songs and watching my husband play some sort of game as to which I do not understand nor care to understand, I am thankful! We are coming closer and closer to moving back to Arkansas for the semester. This excites me and yet is daunting to think about. We have to pack still. (I know I should have been packing a lot sooner.) I am looking forward to seeing and spending time with my mama and daddy. I am leaving a job ( I will come back to it though, no fear) that I love! (A preschool teacher who teaches 18-24 month olds! They melt my heart in ways that cannot be described.)
Moving back to Arkansas is a two fold move actually. Yes there is the internship to further Bob's experience as a campus minister, but it is also a support raising endeavor as I am from Arkansas (app. 3 hours from where we will be). We want to build a better relationship with the people in my home church and let them know what we will be doing as in-state missionaries on a college campus.
The church I work for in the preschool has been WONDERFUL! We have gotten to know the pastor and his family pretty well because we got our drive repaved and had to park else where and they live around the corner from us and he was seeing me walk to my car in the morning while this repaving was going on, came and talked to me one morning while I was at work to find out where we lived and the story of campus ministry spilled out and a relationship between us and the church started to form along with him, his family and us!
Bob met with the elders of the church around Thanksgiving discussing partnering with the church in campus ministry and support for us each month. That was answered a few weeks later when we learned that the church agreed to support us each month. That support increased when the pastor told us he would start supporting us personally. We were able to speak to the church last Sunday about our partnership with the church and asked them to consider supporting us as well. Hopefully God will bless that and we will see fruit from that.
Some of the other teachers that I work with at the preschool have been awesome support as well. From well wishes and threats that I better come back after moving back (what can I say, they love me :D) to some special gifts to help us. They truly have amazed me and shown God's providence.
The parents of my kids at the preschool are the same way! My lead teacher and I received SO many wonderful and thoughtful gifts! I have to write a bunch of thank you cards and you know I don't mind a bit.
So now maybe I will find the motivation to pack a bit and get ready for the Christmas Eve service. :)
Merry Christmas! May Christmas bring you blessings beyond what you thought.
Blessings,
Jonnie
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