chattanooga week.

We spent the past week in Chattanooga, TN, for a supporting church’s missions conference.

This is an event we have had marked on our calendar all year, and I can’t believe it is come and gone already. I also can’t believe how perfectly God’s timing fits our needs. This conference – this week away in Chattanooga – happened right before our move out of our apartment, and with our November departure imminent.  A busy time for us. But oh, how we needed this week – and we didn’t even know it.  We fell in love with this town and this church.

God ministered to us all week long … in the host family that, after a week together, has literally become family to us, in the many shared meals with church folks and veteran missionaries, in time spent with our future teammates, the Iversons, in the sermons and the singing and conversations and hugs and shared tears with brothers and sisters in Christ who are passionate about taking God’s Word to the ends of the earth. This body reached out and pulled us into their arms, and we are changed because of it. And we are thankful.