More Good News!!!!

Sorry for two posts in one day, but we had been also waiting to hear officially about school, and the news just came in the mail today.....

It's official! Ben will be attending the Missionary Baptist Seminary to receive his Masters!!!

It is such a relief to have finality to decisions that had been prayed about. We now can begin to move forward and prepare for the next step. Thank you everyone who has been praying for us. We absolutely love the men that have come out of this school, and Ben is very excited to dive right in!

God has Provided!

We are very excited to announce that we have been blessed with a home while we are in Arkansas!!!! The generous members of Oak Grove MBC in Benton, Arkansas, under the direction of their pastor, Mr. Vance Nutt, are graciously allowing us to move into their parsonage! This is a HUGE blessing for our family. The seminary has free student housing, but it is set up more for new families with maybe a small child or two. While we would have lived under these cramped conditions so that we could follow God's calling, it is going to be so nice to not have to! Having a home will make our transition so much smoother, especially since we will be homeschooling. I still cannot believe we only have about two months left in Pennsylvania. Each day gets a little harder as we begin to say goodbye to places, people and things.

Just today I took Rianne to her followup appointment with her ENT, Dr. Dohar. I cannot believe it was really the last time we will go to him. This man was a God send to our family. When Rianne was 11 months old, only 13 pounds, and hadn't grown or gained an ounce since she was 4 months old, it was him that discovered she had very severe sleep apnea. She only had 5% of her nostrils functioning because her adenoids were so large. She was only getting 4 min of REM sleep a night and would stop breathing over 150 times during a night's "sleep". He expertly removed her tonsils and adenoids even though his tools were really too big for an 11 month old. He removed Annabelle's adenoids and tonsils a couple years later and put tubes in Rianne's ears. I am so grateful for his skill, but I am even more grateful that he was willing to pray with our pastor before surgery. It's pretty amazing too, because he knows a pediatric ENT in Little Rock and said he would gladly pass our care and any needed info onto him. 

It is relationships like this that take me off guard. I know I am going to miss my family, friends, students and coworkers. However, I am beginning to realize there are so many more people that make up our world that will be missed as well. Our children's bus driver....our dental hygienist....our family doctors....our schools...Mark Bedillion and his farm stand....

We have the night free tonight. I keep telling the kids we need to make a list of all of the places we want to visit one last time before we go. Unfortunately, I think the time has come to start doing just that...

Sentimentally Yours- Anne

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Winnie the Pooh