We are officially on a schedule. We have a routine and I am so thankful! I am working full-time and Roy is a full-time student and puts in several hours of work on campus as an Admissions Counselor. Apart from work, we have a busy schedule. Roy just started playing slow pitch softball on Monday nights, Tuesday nights we go to some friends house for dinner and community ( a huge blessing and something we look forward to!), Thursday nights is our City Group night, and then we hang out with people here and there as well. We just love it here in Orlando!
I absolutely love my job at Partin Elementary School in Oviedo. I am an aide for a precious girl who is in a wheelchair in Kindergarten. I spend all day with kindergartners. They are teaching me so much. I never would have thought they would, but I am grateful for this opportunity. I come home with a smile on my face everyday. It is such a blessing to be a part of such a wonderful staff at Partin. I cannot thank the Lord enough for teaching me so much throughout the job hunting process. He really does know what is best. Roy is loving seminary! He is such a great student and honestly wants to process the things that he is learning. He has such a genuine desire to walk with the Lord and serve him in vocational ministry in the future. I come home and talk to him about what the kindergartners I work with said throughout my day and he talks to me about theology :) It's a great combination.
We have been able to get involved in the church we are going to. We volunteer in the nursery and are involved in a City Group, which has been huge in connecting us to the church. We are grateful for community, friendships, and fellowship. We meet on a weekly basis and study scripture and pray together. It is an intimate time. We have also had the chance to volunteer at the Orlando Union Rescue Mission. We will be doing that once a month and working with the children who actually live at the Mission. We are excited to share the love of Christ with them!
Roy has been playing basketball alot lately in an attempt to meet some guys. He goes to Baldwin Park with a few guys from our church and has gotten to know a few of them pretty well. Please continue to pray for these new relationships and pray that they will lead to Gospel conversation. I am also trying to think of ways to meet people. I thought about joining the YMCA, which I thought would be an incredible way to meet people, but we are on a tight "seminary budget" so I am trying to brainstorm other ways. I long for relationships with people who don't know the Lord and hope to love on women and share the GOOD NEWS with them. Please join us in praying for friendships with those who don't have a relationship with Jesus!
Also, to be bold, funds are tight. We are on two small incomes and trying to make our money go as far as we can :) We trust the Lord to provide and are praying for Him to lead us to some more income. Please pray that He will show us what to do in order to obtain some needed income per month. He has never failed us and we have never been without all that we need. We trust, again, that He will provide.
Next month we will celebrate our ONE YEAR anniversary! I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by. We hope to celebrate our anniversary weekend in St. Augustine.
If you are ever in the ORLANDO area please give us a call! :)
We are thankful for your encouragement and prayers. Here are a few prayer requests we have...
* Income. Trusting God to provide for our needs!
* Relationships with the LOST. We long for people to know and love Jesus. That is what life is all about and we truly believe that.
* Intimacy with the Lord. Through some trials we have faced and what we are learning, the Lord is truly working in our hearts both together as a married couple and individually. Please pray that we will spend as much time with Jesus as we can over the next three years in seminary.
