We had a bunch of people over to cookout last night...98% of them were coaches or teachers, and since I too have an office at least in the public school, I guess it could classify as a "back-to-school party"? Ha. Just when you think those are over...it was a blast though! I've really enjoyed getting to know all these people since Jason and I got married. I'm looking forward to training for a 1/2 marathon w/ some of them after Lincoln is born :)
Brandon & Bethany Cole came last night to the "party" and informed us that they got the Germany trip approved!!! *hints the title - I'm excited* Brandon is the new FCA guy for this region and he got it approved to start organizing an ongoing ministry team of basketball players to take over to Germany for a good portion of the summers to play their professional teams...so serious training would be involved, but it would also be a ministry team which would incorporate an element of spiritual development and create opportunities to spread the Word overseas in Germany. Brandon wants Jason to be one of the coaches so that means Lincoln and I would get to go in the summers! And we all know how I feel about doing missions in the summers when there's a chance :) So I'm excited about this opportunity - probably won't come to fruition until 2010, but nonetheless, I'm excited to see how God's going to work through this.
In other news, we had decided it was time to trade Jason's truck in and get him a new (well, used) car that was in better shape and newer cause we've had a bad feeling about how long his current one will actually last. So he's been doing research all week on cars all over NWA and had it narrowed down to a couple. We were going to get about $2500 on a trade in to go toward the new car. Well, literally on Wednesday he was on his way to Springdale to trade it in for what we had decided on and, no joke, his truck overheated and DIED. We jut found out it's going to cost $1500 to fix it!! NOT WORTH IT, obviously. And now instead of a $2500 trade in value, we have to roll that much into another car - and we only have one car right now! nightmare. terrible timing.
So we are praying that God provides in this area...we know He's faithful and that things will work out, but this is just not good timing in our lives right now :( But then again, who am I to say it's not good timing...we'll see what happens!
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