Filling In the Gap

I'm not sure how to summarize an eight month span, especially when it includes many goodbyes, a relocation back to the States and an announcement of a new addition to our family. But I'm going to attempt it.

The start of this blog came from wanting to share the work God is doing at my previous school. That is why I titled it 'A Changing Heart.' It was one of my students who wrote on his homework that his stick figured drawing was changing because of reading and memorizing God's Word. That was why Mike and I packed our bags and traveled to spend two years in Palestine. That is why any believer in Jesus Christ lives, no matter where we are located.

It was tough packing up my classroom and saying goodbye to so many that we had grown to love, invest and learn from. But, we stepped forward knowing that God has the future planned, even if it's not visible to us.

One of the greatest little souvenirs that we brought back with us was a "Made in Palestine" baby! Well, he is more like a work in progress. While in Bethlehem we found out that God was going to bless us with a child. In a way, this baby helped sooth our hearts as we left Palestine. Now we are just a week away from the expected due date!

As for my former students, I pray that their hearts continue to change and grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. My job as a teacher in Bethlehem is completed. The seeds have been planted, and they are being tended to by their current teachers. One day, those hearts will change into women and men of God and prayerfully they will make changes in the hearts of others. This is the good news that Jesus teaches us.

So this is my last update as a second grade teacher in Palestine (who really left way back in June), and I am going to start blogging about our growing family, the new direction God is leading us and just little tid bits that I feel like blogging about.