In less than six weeks we start our journey towards Colorado. We have a required month long Culture and Language School in Colorado Springs that starts on June 2nd. Our whole family will be in school, even Harper and Ember. The girls classes will be about learning what it is like to be third culture kids; growing up in a different culture, from a different culture. Our classes will help us adjust to living, doing family, and ministry in a different culture.
From Colorado we head back to Idaho to finish packing. We will say goodbye to family and friends here in Sandpoint before we head down to Redding. Once in Redding we want to connect with as many people as we can before we leave for Cambodia at the end of July. The girls both start school August 14th, and we want to be there for at least two weeks before so we can adjust a little beforehand. We will have a dinner event at the end of July in Redding, more details to come. Prayer Please pray with us for finances, safe travel, and family connection. We have to pay for culture school in the next couple weeks, as well as plane tickets to Cambodia. We are about 1/4 of the way to funding culture school, so please pray with us for the rest of the money to come in time. Our car has a case of the wobbles. The mechanics tell us its the tires being worn funny and its safe, but it feels uncomfortable to drive. As you can see above we are traveling a lot between now and Cambodia, so please pray the car holds together long enough for us to get everywhere we need to go. In the midst of packing, traveling, working, culture school, and finishing some other projects, we still feel that we are called to prioritize family. With everything going on we know we need wisdom and discernment in how to partner and love each other through all the transition. We are very excited for our move to Cambodia and believe it will also be good for our family. Please partner with us in prayer as a family to make the most of this wild and exciting season. More Posts I (Aaron) started working part time as an independent contractor last month. With that shift I have been getting new vision for communication. From now on you should see a blog post every two weeks. These posts will be short little updates and stories that will give you insight into our journey. We also will send out a quarterly newsletter sharing the bigger picture of our time and ministry in Cambodia. Thank you for partnering with our family as we journey to Cambodia. Please also send us emails or messages on social media for how we can be praying for you. We love you all! The Holmes Family - Megan, Aaron, Harper, and Ember
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It's cold here. A strange contrast to the hot and smokey Redding we left a month ago. Today marks our first post to our family web site blog. It seems that raw and unrefined distinguishes our families habits. Not that we don't value intentionality, quite the contrary. Doing the right things well is the reason we regularly find ourselves embarking on new territory... the type of new territory that is met with unprepared expectancy, no matter how hard we plan.
So how does one start the first of an unknown amount of blogs, newsletters, updates? How does one share the thoughtful details of the process that includes teaching our children to seek the heart of the Father as we journey together into a corporate YES that has and will take us to more new territory? How does one pull friends and family into the mundane details of preparing finances and talking with insurance agents? Those are some of the questions in which we sit with the Lord as of late. Seeking the Father for what He is up to when it comes to our family's transition to Cambodia. And those are some of the many questions we look forward to working out along side of you, our community. So with little much else to say other than WELCOME to us, here begins the first of many correspondences between our family and yours. May our words encourage and inspire. May our words draw us closer to you and you to us. May our words allow for us to better recognize our interdependence, no matter how many miles may be between us. And, most importantly, may the Lord shine through every triumph and every loss that we may be privileged to communicate to each other. Shalom, Megan |
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