I have been so bad about keeping up my blog. Actually, I've been insanely busy, but that's no excuse. I've always been insanely busy and I've always found time to post a few words here and there.
To be honest, the real reason I haven't kept up my blog is that since during my internship I did so much writing, that I was kind of tired of writing by the time I got home and didn't want to write anymore.
Also, there were things going on that I had to keep secret, and it makes for a boring blog when you can't tell what is going on. Now that everything is out in the open, I don't have to keep the secret anymore.
To summarize: Erick was elected the pastor of New Salem Assembly of God in Petersburg, Illinois, and we moved to a new home last week.
We had been looking for a church for about a year. We still loved the people at Clay City, but we really felt that our time there was coming to an end. We talked to the District, who said that until we officially resigned, we should not tell people that we were resigning. So that's why I never mentioned it in my blog.
We sent out a resume to this particular church back in July, I think. Then we heard from them around September, and they said they were going to give us a call. They never called, and in January Erick called them. They interviewed him over the phone, we went and candidated in early March, they voted him in a few weeks later, and his first Sunday was May 5, which was also Abby's 12th birthday.
We moved to a house that is owned by one of the deacon's daughters. It's out in the country a couple of miles, and it's a very nice house. We are trying to sell our house in Jasonville. The plan is to rent this until we can get the mortgage to go through. We are going to meet with the loan officer tomorrow.
So far we really love the church. It's a newer church, only about twenty years old. It's still small, in comparison to our last church it seems pretty big. There are actually people there who do things like run the nursery and lead worship and teach children's church. It's not just Erick and me doing everything. The worship is great and I don't have to lead it, although Jay and Sarah and I have joined the worship team.
So that's the short version of what we've been doing. I will try to not neglect this blog ever again.
