I Got a Job

I'm happy to announce that I am the new resident activity coordinator for Lost Spurs Ranch. What’s great about this is that I work for our apartment complex. That means no commuting! 

My main task will be to plan an event every week for the entire community. I’ll also be running an after-school tutoring program for the elementary students living in our apartment community.

The after-school program started Tuesday. I have 12 children involved ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade. Most of them are very good, and I’m grateful for that. The community events begin next week.

This job position has been vacant for a year, so the managers are very excited to have me.

I love that I can work from home and that I don’t have to work 40 hours a week. I’m not opposed to hard work, and this job is keeping me very busy, and since it’s the dollar amount that I need to bring in, how could I pass it up?!

Settling in to Roanoke

About a month ago now, we moved a little north to Roanoke, Texas for David’s job. The move wasn’t the hard part; it was the packing. 

I should have listened to my husband, but instead I rented a 20 foot U-Haul truck. It didn’t fit all of our stuff. Oops. But it all worked out because we had to go back down the next week so David could teach the adult class at Family Bible School in San Marcos at University Church of Christ.

Thank goodness the movers we hired in Austin were experienced, because they had the truck filled and packed so tightly that we literally couldn’t add a broom to it after they left. I’m so grateful we could afford to hire movers both in Austin and Roanoke. Especially in Roanoke since we live on the third floor.

We’re getting settled in up here in Roanoke. We don’t have quite enough room for all of our furniture in the living room. I’m still trying to figure out how to make it all fit without breaking our backs moving it around.

Preachers are typically known for having a lot of books, and David is definitely one of them! We need to buy at least one more full-sized bookshelf for him to be able to fit them all. Right now there’s still quite a few books packed in boxes. 

I don’t have room for a desk like I did in Austin, so I’m weeding out things as best as I can. It will probably take us a little bit to figure it all out, but we’ll manage for now. 

We’re really looking forward to having members of the church over! Everyone has been really helpful and friendly. Multiple people are even giving me lots of ideas for places to look for work. We are definitely blessed to have them as a church family.

Like I stated earlier, we hired movers, but we still had a few people from the church come and help us move in. And they bought us some groceries so we didn’t have to go grocery shopping right away. I was blown away by everyone’s generosity! 

Have I made it clear yet that we are really loving it up here? :) Even our dog is happy. He loves to follow us around the house all day, and any chance he gets, he jumps up into my lap. Here’s a picture of him sleeping on me.

Next Wednesday will be David’s first time to teach at Roanoke. He’ll also be preaching Sunday the 19^th and Wednesday the 22^nd. I’m excited for him! Please keep our preacher’s family, the Davis’s, in your prayers as they travel to Tennessee for Polishing the Pulpit this upcoming week. We’ll miss them while they’re gone.

That’s a good idea of what’s been going on so far. We’re staying plenty busy, in a good way.

David’s Graduation

It's been a while since I've had the time to blog, so that means there is a lot to write about. Something very important happened and I think it deserves special attention. That important event is that David graduated from the Southwest School of Bible Studies on Sunday, July 15th! I am SO proud of him!

Southwest is a two-year, intensive Bible study program located at the Southwest Church of Christ in Austin, Texas. The school goes year round, with a few weeks off for a summer break in July and August. It's basically four years of school crammed into two years. The students stay very busy!

David has learned so much about the Bible. We have been very blessed by multiple congregations around the United States who supported him financially through school. It was a great learning experience that not everybody is able to have. We are forever thankful for their generosity. 

Now that David has graduated, he's working as the associate minister intern for the Roanoke Church of Christ in Roanoke, Texas. If you'd like to know more about that, you can read my previous post filled with details here.

Congratulations and good job, David!

David receiving his diploma