Blessed Beyond Measure

WOW!  What an exciting week we have had!  Last Sunday our home church commissioned us as neighborhood missionaries, pledging to support us in deed and in prayer.  Since we are Southern Baptists, this was followed by a potluck lunch:)  Then, those that we able walked the block and a half or so to our Challenge House, where we encircled the house, hand in hand, and prayed over it and all those that will be affected by the ministry taking place in it.  What an awesome experience this was!  Such a sweet fellowship with our church family.

On Monday night, ladies from the Beth Faul WMU group came to the Challenge House and cleaned it from top to bottom.  These awesome women came straight from work, cleaning supplies in hand!  They did everything from vacuum and dust to clean the refrigerator shelves.  Another blessing to know that my family could move into a clean house.

Two retired men from our church donated  a 40+ hour work week to paint the entire downstairs of our CH. This will be the common area of the house that will be used by any group that comes in to have a meeting or Bible study.  Such a relief to know that it is freshly painted and ready for whatever this ministry brings our way!

On Thursday, we had a buyer put a contract on our "old" house.  The circumstances behind this buyer choosing our house and the details of the purchase contract leave no doubt that God was in that situation!  We will have a couple of extra weeks to finish moving out the last of our stuff, and maybe even have a moving sale, before the new owner takes possession. (We are waiting on an outdoor storage building to be installed at the CH, so we had to leave behind everything in the attic and garage of the old house.)

Yesterday, Saturday, was our big moving day!  We had 9 men from church show up to help with the move.  We were done in a couple hours!  My mom and I were even able to get a good bit of the kitchen unpacked! 

Even today at church the blessings continued to flow.  We had several people approach us about wanting to reseed the front yard, having a friend remove a tree stump in the backyard (which is holding up the progress of our outbuilding), and just blessing us with gift cards!  We feel so loved as God continues to use our church family to confirm this life changing decision!

Give, and it will be given to you.  A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.  For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  Luke 6:38