Unloading

We were supposed to go to Evalee's last night for dinner, but Ed got called into work. So we stayed home and rescheduled that for Sunday evening.

Instead, God had other plans. On Wednesday, Rob told me that we received a phone tree from church that was asking for help to unload the moving truck of one of our families at church. I wasn't home so Rob didn't go. Well, yesterday, God put me at the church office at the right time to find out that that family needed a dolly. So I sent them to my house to get it. Rob talked to Ryan for a few minutes and discovered that the phone tree wasn't productive yesterday and the truck was still full. When I arrived home, we loaded the kids in the car and headed over to help. Ryan grew up at our church. He married his wife Renee and together they went into ministry. Ryan is youth pastor and Renee is close to her own ordination as well. They have three little boys, JR, Blake and Trentin.

It was a nice evening. We were able to visit with the whole family, not only Ryan and Renee, but the Avery's completely: Larry and Evelyn and Holly and her girls. We stayed for pizza and fellowship. It was great to get to know Ryan and Renee. We had known of them but didn't know them because they lived and served so far away. It will be great during this transition time for their family to get to know them.

The kids played hard with the trampoline, the kiddie pool and the slip n' slide. They even had lawn mower rides through their backyard. It was funny to watch Nadine with the slip n' slide. She is such a girl, but after a few minutes she was diving right in. And again Rowan loved having boys to play with. And I think Rob really enjoyed getting to know Ryan and even Larry a little better through this.