Tennessee is Amazing!

I finally have internet! Woot, woot! I know a ton of people are wanting to see pictures of our new house and I promise I'll post some as soon as I get some unpacking done. It is super cute...way more than I expected and we love it. From the outside, it looks very small but it has way more room than the apartment and I don't have a crazy neighbor beating on my floor! Bonus!

We arrived safely in Union City about 6:30 PM Friday after a great trip. The weather was beautiful, basically no construction and we just had God's favor the whole way. Pastor Tommy had a huge crew waiting for us to unload. What took us 12 hours to pack on Thursday took about 50 minutes to unload! What a nice way to be greeted! I don't think I carried anything that night.

Saturday was a flurry of preparing for Sunday, two meetings and trying to return the moving truck to a very hard to find place. Oh well, we got to see some Kentucky country side in the process.

Sunday was the most amazing day in all the time I have been in ministry. Pastor Tommy asked me to greet the congregation right at the beginning of service and then leave for children's church. I was a little nervous but was so pleased he wanted everyone to be sure and know who I was. It was their first "Friends and Family" day and he had been encouraging the church to invite people for several weeks. We had such a HUGE turnout! The normal attendance between both services is about 200 but Sunday we had 328! The children's church staff said a big Sunday in the kid's department was about 25 and we had 90!! We had a total of 26 kids ask Jesus into their hearts and 3 adults for 29 salvations! PTL...God is so GOOD. I was so humbled and in awe of how He blessed the day and brought in so many people that I spontaneously would burst into tears.

Today was my first day in the office and it already feels like I've been on staff for a long time. It's so hard to explain...I know it's a God thing. I miss you all so much and can't wait to see everyone in person again but am so happy to be here. I owe soooo many phone calls and I promise to get back to you in a day or two. Right now I am exhausted and can hardly keep my eyes open. I have not done much unpacking and normally that would have me NUTS, but I don't care...I just want to sleeeeeeep. :) I LOVE my new opportunity....can't call it a job...it's too much fun to be work!