Ok, well the last blog shared how our life may of had a few bumps in the road. Through all the bumps, God has still been there. These past couple of weeks we have been overwhelmed. As I've told you before Jason's resume has been out since August 2008. There were times we've been discouraged but we knew God had something in store. Well what has happened these past few weeks, have been a whirwind!
Jason has had a couple of interviews with Search Committees from about 3 churches. (1 in Louisiana, 2 in Texas) We were excited about these and Jason felt good about each of them. Our prayer was to go where God wanted us. A church in Irving, called and asked for a third interview (Jason had two prior interviews with them, one phone, the other in person with just him, this third interview, included me), we were pretty excited, and the search committee team we met were great, including the Pastor and Executive Pastor. We were not sure how it went, until..........
June 23, Jason called me and said "How are you?", I said "Good, how are you?", his response "I'm on cloud 9, Irving offered me the job." My response "Seriously?!?!". We were overwhelmed and excited. The next steps would be prayer and asking a few more questions. Jason wanted to talk to Keith (chairman of the search committee), and ask a few questions. He called him on Wednesday and they spoke, after prayer and talking with each other, we thought "God, this is too much, is this where you want us?" We knew it was. Jason called on Thursday to say "I am humbled and honored to accept." From then on, confirmation after confirmation, told us this was where we were suppose to be.
The next step was to be prepared for a place a live. I say, prepared, because we still had a meet and greet with the church, and they had to vote on us. So we decided to go Apartment Hunting, not fun! We then, for entertainment applied for a house loan to see if we were approved, and we were.Which then started a new phase.........housing hunting.
Through the house hunting process, we found an amazing lady who is a member of the church, Linda Stone. Such a wonderful lady, who has made this process so easy. We could not imagine doing this with anyone else! She has helped us with every step of the way, including helping us meet another great lady, Jeanette, who has been working on our loan. We plan to use Linda each time we move, regardless where! :) After a couple weekends and many phone calls and emails, I am happy to say we have found a house and are under contract. And as long as all goes well, we hope to sign papers end of August.
So, to conclude this story, Keith came and brought us info on the church, it was good to start to see what and who the church was. Next we met with Larry the executive Pastor and his wife, Carrie, we went to Pf Changs (very good!) and had a great tme. We had a meet and greet, where we met with the church family this past Saturday, such a precious/loving/fun group. Had a tour of the church, signed a contract for the house and then went to relax!The church gave us a great weekend with putting us up in a room at the Embassy Suites, such a relaxing and fun time. We really needed it! Then on Sunday, we met with more workers and volunteers and Jason got voted as the new Minister of Young Families for Plymouth Park Baptist Church!
We are so excited and scared at the same time. Jason has already worked two days and is blown away at how blessed he is, we hope to move in about two weeks to temporary housing and then in September move into our house! In the meantime I am finishing up my job at SWBTS, my last day being July 22. I am asked if I'm going to find a job, currently not right now, going to focus on the move and my RA, as well as getting involved and knowing my new church family. I hope also to blog a little more with recipes and life!
We right now want to pinch ourselves, because life is pretty amazing. Thank you all for your continued words of encouragement and prayer! (felt those prayers all the time!) Please don't stop praying though, please continue praying for us as we enter this next step in this thing called life.....
Blessings,
The Curry's :)
