Farewell to Waco

Let me tell you a story about how great and powerful our God is and how wonderfully He has blessed our family. In early June, we received our student housing assignment for a 2 bedroom townhouse totaling 900 sq. ft. The rent was very affordable, but we would have to also get a storage unit to store our stuff for 4-5 years and I would be working from home in a very small dinette. We knew that we needed to find another option and but this was the only thing we could afford if we still had a mortgage to pay. We got our assignment on Monday and we had to let the housing department know if we accepted the assignment or not by 5pm Wednesday. If we choose to keep the assignment we would be scheduled to sign a lease beginning in July for a minimum of 60 days.

Our response..................We hit our knees in prayer and prayed intently that God would sell our house on Tuesday so we could feel confident in rejecting the housing offer.

God's response...............We got an acceptable offer on our house Tuesday afternoon at 5:30pm.

That was incredible, but now we had to find a place to live. We made offers on two houses that took too long to get back to us and it looked like we were not going to have a place to live come August.

Our response..................We hit our knees in prayer and prayed intently that God would provide a place for us to live and that he would help us find that house on our last trip to Ft Worth on June 26. We went to Ft Worth and looked at 6 more houses. Not finding anything we felt comfortable with and totally exasperated, we suddenly remembered the very first house that our realtor had shown us. We went to look at the house and discovered that the owners were just finishing seminar and going into the mission field. They were eager and the house seemed to fit our needs. We made an offer.

God's response...............Our offer was accepted before we got back home that evening. Plus, the owners directed us to a daycare that we ended up deciding was the best fit as well.

Our conclusion - Our God is great, and powerful and responsive to earnest prayer.

Now that we know what we are doing we are packing frantically to be out of our house by July 13th. Who knew you could accumulate so much stuff in just a few years.

As we prepare to leave our friends invited us to have dinner as a final farewell last night. We were touched and moved tears when we showed up and there were a bunch of people there to say goodbye. People who have touched our lives and impacted us in a way that we will never forget.

We are full confident that we are following God' plan, but we will miss the friends we have made in Waco and I am not sure that we will ever find people who love and care about us like this group. Not to mention that they are a lot of fun to be around. The two families we will miss the most are the Waltons and the Bryants. Especially since they hate to travel and will probably never come see us! - Just kidding. They better visit us. At least we all know that the Forrest family spends half of our life in the car already so it will be nothing for us to come back to Waco to see everyone.