And so starts the adventure....

2 months ago we were living in San Pedro, enjoying our 2 bedroom apartment, and Mega-Couch, working full time jobs and leading the High School & Jr. High students at Bethany Christian  Fellowship. Today, we are unemployed, homeless (well, living at my sisters house in long beach) and missing Mega-Couch. As most of you know, we have decided to move to the Middle East to live, work & minister there. We are now just waiting for September 11th (I know, I know) to roll around so we can fly off and start a new chapter in our lives. 

Getting to this point hasn't been easy, it started with a lot of prayer and counsel from some people we trust and love. Once the decision was made, came the hard part of telling everyone we loved of our decision to move to Dubai (thank God for Facebook) and to try to arrange a move to the other side of the world. 

 

We had a plan set to sell some of our stuff, ship some stuff (Mega-Couch) to Dubai, and store some stuff at my moms house in Torrance. We were so blessed and thankful for our good friends Julie & Ami who cleaned out their garage and donated it all to our garage sale. My mom, and brother-in-law Nic also helped us out a ton with getting set up for our garage sale. Once everything was sold, we had to pack up the few things that we were storing at my moms. Then came the movers:  we sat back and watched as our lives were packed, wrapped and loaded onto a 20 ft container in less then 4 hours. 

After that, there was really no point to continue to rent our apartment so we packed the few clothes we had left and headed over to the Banda's house. 

Next stop: Vietnam, where Steven has promised me many manicures & pedicures!