Somebody asked me the other day what was going on in my life lately. I said 'moving'. They said they meant in my personal life. I said 'moving'. There's not a lot of room for anything else!
The intensity of the last couple of months has been coming from two fronts- the first being moving out of base without a new base to move into, and the second being getting the new base finished! Thankfully, the first hurdle is behind us, and we can concentrate all we have on the second. We'd known for a while that we had to move out of our old premises by the 30th of November, but what we didn't was whether the new base building project would be completed by then. It wasn't, but we managed to get out nonetheless, and the build goes on!
Most of the handy people on base have already been working on the new building for some time, but I stayed back to help with the move. I was put in charge of sorting and emptying our tool shed, and man was that a big job! Eleven years of accumulated 'this could be useful!'. Plus I'm inclined to keep things rather than throw them away, so it took a fair bit of work. But we got there in the end, and crammed all of the day to day stuff into a much smaller shed at the back of one of our staff houses. Sometime in the future we'll work on a more permanent shed solution, but that's taking a back seat at the moment.
Then in the week and a half before the deadline, things were kicked up to the next level. Twelve hour days have been pretty normal lately. My favourite part of the whole process, though, was seeing God provide for us. Obviously we have a lot of stuff to move off base, but no new base to move into, so we had to find storage. We had no money for it, because every spare cent is going towards the build, so we were praying hard for a solution. We had a couple of places that we thought were the answer, but they fell through. It looked like the only solution was going to be taking it all to a farm two hours' drive south. Then one of the women organising the move felt she should ask about using an empty warehouse up the road from us. She didn't hear back from the real estate agent for a couple of days, but eventually he called and said the owners had said no. But would we be interested in a bigger one? A few hours later we had the keys to a warehouse literally five minutes down the road, big enough to fit everything we had to store! God came through with exactly what we needed, exactly when we needed it! He is so good!
So that's what's been engulfing my life lately. Now that we're out I'm working at the building site, as well as continuing to cover Vehicles, so I don't expect any respite soon, although we're aiming to be finished before Christmas. Please pray that we finish on schedule, and that moving in goes smoothly! Also that our vehicles stay healthy- it will be really difficult to work on them with so much else happening at the same time.
Thanks for your all your prayers and support!
