Decision

Well, we're moving to Wisconsin!

It's been awhile since I've mentioned our pending decision about leading a church plant in Kenosha. We and the core team there have spent the season of Lent waiting and listening.

On Sunday we met after the service, and we all believe that God has confirmed His call upon my husband to lead this new church. The core team officially invited him to assume its leadership as soon as we're able to move there. He will continue to work in his current job (which is closer to Kenosha than here, actually) for the short-term, but it is the church's intention to eventually support him as a full-time priest.

The church has yet to have a "grand opening" service; they've done no advertising or even put up a sign yet, but God has already drawn a couple of families to join the core team, and all feel confident, in the Lord, that it will grow quickly. Last night we informed the vestry of our current church; they are in agreement and are eager to support this effort as a daughter church.

We are excited! It feels right to us--like we will be cooperating with God on something He imagined long before we could ever imagine ourselves moving to Wisconsin. We aren't sure how our call to start a prayer community will work itself out, but it may begin with buying a house in the immediate neighborhood of the lovely space the church now rents on Sunday mornings. One couple on the core team already lives across the street, and if that property (a beautiful old Episcopal girls' school, right on Lake Michigan) were ever to become available to buy, it would be fabulous for what we have in mind. (It's owned by the park district now, but nothing is impossible for God!)

So we'll start looking in that neighborhood of older homes--and start getting this one ready to sell.

THAT topic is big enough for another post.... But I'm starting by clearing a couple shelves of homeschool curriculum that I'm not going to hang onto any longer. My homeschool group is having a big used curriculum sale on Friday...so I'm off to mull and pull and price!