Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Packing Up the Computers Tomorrow

This will be the last post to this blog until we get to Burlington. If all goes according to plan, we will be arriving there Saturday, June 2nd.

The U-Load trailer will be here Thursday and we'll start loading. We hope to get about everything on the trailer Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Then Monday and Tuesday, we'll be getting the house nice and ready for the new owners. The trailer will be picked up next Tuesday, May 22. We're scheduled to close on the sale of the house on the 23rd, then Jared graduates Thursday afternoon. He is taking his finals this week . . . Thursday will be his last day of actual school.

With our furniture gone, we'll move into a little apartment the Leonard Street church has in its building and stay there through Sunday morning, May 27th. I'll preach that morning, then after a farewell luncheon we'll leave Pensacola and start our journey. We'll spend Memorial Day with my older son Daniel and his family in Hartselle, Alabama. Tuesday, the 29th will be the real beginning of our cross-country trip. We hope to make it to somewhere in Missouri that day. On Wednesday, we're planning to travel on across Missouri and Kansas on I-70. Thursday will take us on to Denver, up to Cheyenne, and westward through Wyoming. On Friday, we'll go through the northeast corner of Utah, cut across Idaho, and get into Oregon . . . perhaps somewhere around Pendleton. Then if all goes well, we'll come up I-82 through Yakima and intersect I-90 at Ellensburg. Then, we'll cross the Cascades and head north on I-5. On a trip this long, there is a high probability something will interfere with the itinerary . . . but there you have our plans at this point.

Anyway, in less than 3 weeks, we should be there and ready to get started with our work together for the Lord. I have felt all along that this is the Lord's will and I believe He will bless our labors together in a very special way. Let us pledge ourselves to making 2007 the beginning of a great new chapter in the history of the Skagit Valley church. If we secure the blessings of heaven by doing things according to God's will, the possibilities are great beyond our ability to imagine.

See you soon!!

John & Trish