Hello world :-) Update on our whereabouts!

Hi all!

Well if you were following mine and Teruah's journey very closely and keeping up with our blog, I must apologize for a year's absence. Neither of us meant to stop writing entirely - but we got rather off track with day to day things. For those of you who are asking, let me catch you up to speed.

In September last year (2009) Teruah and I were offered a great house in Texas to stay in. It would be near a small college and we would have oppurtunity to take classes or pursue whatever course we wished. It was a huge blessing for us at that time, because neither of us had a plan after the Spring/Summer of '09.

Previous to this, we had traveled throughout the Eastern states, visiting friends and mostly my family. In May/June, we returned to California for the summer months. This is where the blog left off - at Teruah's speaking engagement at her parent's church - which I must say was really, really awesome! Good job Teruah and Eva, and thank you Holy Spirit! Many many people were encouraged and God did a lot of very cool stuff in people's hearts that night. It seems crazy that it was a full year ago now!

Anyway, back to where we are: We are in Texas, in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area. We have been staying in a wonderful place (thanks to a wonderful and generous friend) and Teruah had oppurtunity to take some classes this past Spring. In December, my sister Leah moved in with us after she completed her music ministry school at Christ For the Nations here in Dallas.

Both Teruah and I were offered jobs at Target last November. It was an interesting shift switching from living by faith and God providing every single need to working and getting paychecks. There were good and bad things about it - mostly I felt at first how frustrated I was by not being able to just spend limitless amounts of time soaking in God's presence. But I rather liked getting paid every two weeks, I must say. It wasn't that I have never worked a job before, but rather that I had been in a long season of God providing a certain way, and then we had to shift gears a bit. This keeps things fresh I guess, because I would rather depend on my work to get finances, however in much of my life so far, God has caused me to live in a way where I receive support. This has been a HUGE challenge to me and to my sense of self reliance. Which I am sure is what God is getting at. So we transition. And adjust - and just when we think we have this down, things change!

So now you know where we are, my next update will be more about what we feel is on God's heart for us now, and also what we hope to do in the days ahead...

Love to you each and every one! More to come soon.

Anna