From a 900sq.ft Apartment to a 3000sq.ft House

 Front house

 Front door

 Love this big kitchen :)

 The upstairs possible play room area. Picture below the living area, love the wood floors :)

No we didn't win the lottery, nor have we bought a new house. Last year, we were willing to follow God's call to the mission field and go to Indonesia to work with the unreached people. However, God shut the doors for us there and as His Word says He had other and greater plans for us, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9. We began to pray for God's leading last November and it was hard for a couple of months because we didn't hear anything. In February this year, Warwick Baptist Church contacted Frank and they developed a good relationship.  We were praying and asking God to show us His will in this job position and we felt God's peace about it. This house is located in called Hobbsville, NC, a 30 minutes from drive west of Elizabeth City. This is the place where the Lord has invited us to live and work in the ministry.  The church just built a new house for the pastor's family to live in and it is located about 1 mile from the church. We met the people this past weekend and both of us were overwhelmed at the warmth and love we felt from the people. They have a hunger for God's word and for missions and the people are eager to serve and work hard in the work of the ministry, especially the deacons and key leaders. So, it seems to be a great fit for us and we are excited. However, our hearts are heavy for leaving the Raleigh/Wake Forest area and all of our seminary and Open Door friends. Biggest of all is Frank's sadness for having to leave the people at Vaughan Baptist, where he has been preaching and helping them over the past 3 years. It was so hard for him to pick up the phone and inform them of this news.  We would be praying for God to provide the right person in this loving church at Vaughan Baptist. In the same way, please be in praying for us since a new move is not always easy. We are in this world to follow God's will not ours because God's will is right and perfect( Romans 12:2)

Happy Resurrection Day!!!

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried
our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he
was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment
that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds
we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us
has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on
him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not
open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did
not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off
from the land of the living; for the transgression of my
people he was stricken.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the
rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor
was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to
suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will
of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of
life and be satisfied, by his knowledge my righteous servant
will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and
he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured
out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.
Isaiah 53