Thursday, October 19, 2006
What's Next?
Many people have asked if we know what we are doing when we leave Korea. We have been hesitant to answer that question as God always seems to throw in some change at the last minute that we aren't expecting. I mean for an entire year we prepared to go to Japan and if you don't count the airport in Tokyo, we have never stepped foot there! Instead at the last minute God called us to Korea! We were supposed to be in Korea for 2 short years...it is now 4 years later and we are finally making plans to come home. We have learned from experience NOT to get ahead of God!
About 6 months ago, we began writing out our resumes! WOW, it had been a LONG time since we had done that! However, after a lot of rough drafts, we finally got them all made up. We were approached about submitting our resumes for a new position being started at William Carey University in Mississippi. William Carey's heart has always been for reaching the World and they want to do that through the college. They have decided to hire a couple who has experience with Asian Culture to mentor and assist the International Student population. It sounded like an awesome opportunity to continue to work with Asian Students (who have stolen our hearts in the past 4 years) as well as continue our education (we will begin to work on our Masters as a benefit of working for the school). So, we applied and so began the waiting game.
The Board of Trustees for the school met in August and the last week of August we were finally offered a position. As of January 2007, Clark will be the International Student Coordinator for William Carey University. I have been hired on part time to assist him and work on the schools webdesign team (I have a LOT of learning to do..LOL)! I will work from home a lot and continue to homeschool my oldest daughter. We are SO excited about this new opportunity to serve!
However, January is a few months away...so you may be wondering what will be happening in the next few months. The tentative plan is as follows. We will stay on Jeju until a few days before Thanksgiving. I will continue to homeschool and Clark will continue to minister to the Jeju people. We will also begin packing in early November we will send our personal belongings to Seoul to be crated and shipped to America. We will load our 6 suite cases in the van and take the ferry off the island and drive on to Seoul. There is a week of meetings in Seoul that begin with all of us celebrating Thanksgiving day together! After the week of meetings we will drive back down to Pusan/Yangsan and spend a week saying good-byes to the people we used to work with. We will return to Seoul a few days before we fly out to America.
The first week of December we will fly out of Korea and I know it will be a SAD day! We will fly to SC and begin our time home with a week to fellowship with Clark's family and many of our old college friends. After 1 week we will probably rent a car and drive to FL. We will settle in FL for 4 to 6 weeks. Bug and I will continue homeschooling. Clark will have many opportunities to share with churches and we will spend some MUCH needed time with family!
Sometime in January we will pack our stuff up again and drive to SC for another visit. We will also get all of our stuff out of storage and load it in a moving van to make the trip to our new home in Mississippi.
Please keep our family in your prayers as the next few months are going to be constant changes and times of transition. I know it will have many wonderful moments, but there are sure to be MANY sad and difficult moments as well. We treasure your prayers! If anyone has any questions of something I may not have covered, please ask away and I will do my best to answer! :-)
About 6 months ago, we began writing out our resumes! WOW, it had been a LONG time since we had done that! However, after a lot of rough drafts, we finally got them all made up. We were approached about submitting our resumes for a new position being started at William Carey University in Mississippi. William Carey's heart has always been for reaching the World and they want to do that through the college. They have decided to hire a couple who has experience with Asian Culture to mentor and assist the International Student population. It sounded like an awesome opportunity to continue to work with Asian Students (who have stolen our hearts in the past 4 years) as well as continue our education (we will begin to work on our Masters as a benefit of working for the school). So, we applied and so began the waiting game.
The Board of Trustees for the school met in August and the last week of August we were finally offered a position. As of January 2007, Clark will be the International Student Coordinator for William Carey University. I have been hired on part time to assist him and work on the schools webdesign team (I have a LOT of learning to do..LOL)! I will work from home a lot and continue to homeschool my oldest daughter. We are SO excited about this new opportunity to serve!
However, January is a few months away...so you may be wondering what will be happening in the next few months. The tentative plan is as follows. We will stay on Jeju until a few days before Thanksgiving. I will continue to homeschool and Clark will continue to minister to the Jeju people. We will also begin packing in early November we will send our personal belongings to Seoul to be crated and shipped to America. We will load our 6 suite cases in the van and take the ferry off the island and drive on to Seoul. There is a week of meetings in Seoul that begin with all of us celebrating Thanksgiving day together! After the week of meetings we will drive back down to Pusan/Yangsan and spend a week saying good-byes to the people we used to work with. We will return to Seoul a few days before we fly out to America.
The first week of December we will fly out of Korea and I know it will be a SAD day! We will fly to SC and begin our time home with a week to fellowship with Clark's family and many of our old college friends. After 1 week we will probably rent a car and drive to FL. We will settle in FL for 4 to 6 weeks. Bug and I will continue homeschooling. Clark will have many opportunities to share with churches and we will spend some MUCH needed time with family!
Sometime in January we will pack our stuff up again and drive to SC for another visit. We will also get all of our stuff out of storage and load it in a moving van to make the trip to our new home in Mississippi.
Please keep our family in your prayers as the next few months are going to be constant changes and times of transition. I know it will have many wonderful moments, but there are sure to be MANY sad and difficult moments as well. We treasure your prayers! If anyone has any questions of something I may not have covered, please ask away and I will do my best to answer! :-)
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