hooray for the weekend!

B and I haven't been this excited for a weekend to come in a long time.  Its not because work is bad or life is hectic.  Its just busy.  We have been living at such a slower pace recently (minus all the moving around) that having our first week of training and "real life"  so to speak was exhausting- especially for B.

So its a Saturday morning and I finally crawled out of bed around 8, but my sweet hubby is still in bed, trying to catch up on all those Zzz's.  

Another thing I wanted to mention again, is that we have found a church body!  When we were hopping around the country for 12 weeks, we were unable to really connect with a body, and the one really great church we knew of in Pensacola was really far away from us.  We attended it for a while, but when we tried to get involved, they really didn't have anything they needed help with at the time- and we started to feel like the Lord was calling us to visit other churches closer to our area.

B and I both have very similar hearts for the church and really want to be a part of one that is not only doctrinally sound, but is meeting together more than once a week- to really foster community, and one that is serving locally beyond the church walls.  There aren't many churches near our area, so it has been a concern of ours for a while- whether or not we would find one in our area.

But, praise the Lord-  He provides for us so well!  We found a church called Emerald Coast Community Church, by surfing the internet one day- and love it.  There are old people, young people, children, youth, middle aged people- all in this relatively small body of believers!  On our first Sunday, sooo many people came up to us to introduce themselves, but not only that- they really wanted to get to know us!  We felt so loved by this genuine body!  We even helped out with a meet the church event they were holding after church at the walmart right across the street from our apartments!  It was so cool to get together with many churches in the area to share the love of Christ to our literal neighbors!

We have visited the church twice now and have really felt the peace of the Lord in it.  The pastor and his wife came over the other night and shared with us everything about the church-  we spent like 3 hours with them- it was really fun and encouraging!

They have small groups starting up soon that we are hoping to get involved with, and we have even met some young military couples there who we have gotten to spend some good time with already!

All that to say, the Lord is definitely doing good things in that area!  He is working.  There are still a couple of difficult things we are praying through- I don't really want to post them, but if you want to know better how to pray for us still in that area- call or email me and I will gladly fill you in!

Enjoy this Saturday and Rest!