Friday night at En Gedi Hospitality House

The boxes are everywhere. The pictures are not hung. BUT my first meal at the En Gedi Hospitality House is ready to be taken over there and served! Our first Friday night "back in the saddle"! Suzie graciously allowed me to make this meal and it really, really felt wonderful. Which is, all by itself, for those of you who know me, the grace of God.

Mountain Home is a wonderful town. And we have already had a week full of ministry and getting to know and love people here.

So come on over for Cranberry Chicken over rice, salad, rolls and snickerdoodles! And keep praying for us! The little details of moving can sneak up on a person. But oh my! How happy we are here!

Love to you all!
Janet

Going home!

On Saturday, September 1st, we officially leave home to go home. This world is a strange place. Peter says we are aliens and strangers. The old hymn says, "This world is not my home, I'm just a-passin' through." So to ever fully GET settled, well, I think that is just out of the question. But I also see that God graciously allows us to settle for a bit. And we are at the end of this process of unsettling in one foreign world to get settled in another, while we wait for the ultimate Home. Colorado will soon be in the rearview mirror as we set our sites and the GPS for Mountain Home, Idaho.

Eric is already there with one load of stuff. He hooked up the washer and dryer in our new home last night. What more do I need? Today and tomorrow he completes a few tasks there, flies back into Denver on Thursday night and on Saturday morning, we load up again and head out.

The goodbyes here aren't really goodbyes. They feel so temporary. For one thing, Mountain Home is only 800 miles from Denver and it is on a well-traveled "on our way to somewhere else" highway. We anticipate and hope for LOTS OF VISITING FRIENDS. We have such dear, precious, loving, kind, wonderful friends here. How they will be missed in the dailyness of our new home. But as I have said many times, "All this and heaven, too!"

Please do pray for us. We are trusting God for everything behind and for everything ahead. We thank God for the precious team already waiting there in Mountain Home and the dear ones already coming alongside to make us part of the family there.

The invitation stands! Come be in our HOME in MOUNTAIN HOME as we celebrate Him who calls us to one day be in our Eternal Home.

We love you.  Janet and Eric

We have a contract on our house in Colorado!!! Pray for the inspection, the details, the closing, and all that has to be taken care of!

We have been told that we can rent the home in Mountain Home that we have placed a contract on until the short sale goes through as well.

So! We are thinking September 1st we will move to Idaho! Pray, pray, pray!with our many thanks.

Love, Janet and Eric

We are home. Sort of. We are back in Aurora, Colorado. Driving into our neighborhood, after one week in Idaho, felt odd. Like we weren't "home" anymore. Like we had left "home" and come back to our past.
We enjoyed a very full week. We putzed around the En Gedi Hospitality House, painting, scraping, learning to be cat people (a little bit), cooking, fellowshiping, meeting new people, loving the ministry. Oh yes, and we found a home! We put a contract on a new (to us) home and since it is a short sale, it could take awhile. Which may be good because we still need a buyer for our Aurora home! Would you please pray for that?

That sense of not being "home" is more than just Mountain Home, Idaho versus Aurora, Colorado. It is the restlessness that longs for the day when we are fully home. Forever home. As we wait for the sale of the Colorado home, as we wait to finally move to our new place of ministry, as we WAIT, I realize that God is being very present to us in ways that we have not yet learned about Him. I know that He will make it all a very sweet journey as we lean on Him, on His perfect plan and timing.

Will you please join us in this sweet journey? We are figuring out what to do with our time as we wait. Raising new support will be one of the most critical things to do. That will mean some traveling, most likely. We would love to come to where YOU are and share the ministry of Cadence, of the En Gedi Hospitality House, and all about the needs of our precious military. Let us know if we can share in your church, in your home or small group. That would be a privilege.

See you next time! We love you!  Janet and Eric on THE WAY HOME

Hey! We are HOME! In Mountain Home, actually. We are here for one week, taking care of the En Gedi Hospitality for Ed and Suzie. Looking for a home to buy. Doing a few maintenance jobs around here while we are hanging out in OUR NEW TOWN. Tomorrow, Sunday 22nd, we will attend chapel at Mountain Home AFB. On Monday, we will go look at houses with our realtor. On Tuesday and Thursday, we will work around the house here, painting, caulking, mowing, cat-sitting.  The cats LOVE Eric. Who knew? On Wednesday, we will get to do ministry stuff on base.

Ben is on the road to California. Pray for him, please, as he heads to Camp Pendleton. He had three weeks at home and they were full ones.

We just experienced the aftermath of the Colorado Century 16 massacre, about 5 minutes from our home. Several of my client companies (as a chaplain) had folks involved. I was on the phone assigning chaplains to handle the crises as we drove out of town.

On the way out of Colorado, the ENTIRE FRONT WHEEL came off of our car. Eric steered us off the highway, the wheel and tire rolling down the freeway caused no accidents, and we were towed back to Aurora with the angels following on behind. Car back at the mechanic, we drove off in the other car, and arrived in Pocatello last night at midnight. Then on to Mountain Home this morning. Ed and Suzie have our Blazer and are in Oregon along with their lovely daughter and two precious grandbabies. We are HERE. HOME. (soon)

Please pray. God is lovingly, kindly, compassionately in control. We trust Him. With our home sale, with our home purchase, with our "stuff", physical and emotional.

Pray for the grieving and the sore hearted during this aftermath of killing in Aurora. How do we go about processing this kind of evil?  Leaning HARD ON OUR LORD!

We love you.  Janet and Eric

Pray! An interested family is coming to see our home for the second time this week. Pray this happens, pray for a sale! Thank you!

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In Him and for His glory,

Eric and Janet

Welcome!

“You are never too old to have an adventure with God.” And so we are off to a new adventure in life, following God’s directions. We believe God is moving us to Mountain Home, Idaho and we are so excited.

Eric and I have been in military ministry with OCSC/Cadence for 29 years. Panama, Korea, Germany, Englewood, CO. Now we are being led to team ministry at Mountain Home AFB, working alongside our friends, Ed and Suzie Buri.

At the beginning of each year, I think I have a relatively clear picture of what the year ahead might hold. This year ~ nothing but surprises and waiting to look around the next bend. Certainly not the organized and structured year I had envisioned!

Our home is on the market. Pray for a quick sale. (Eric was such an amazing genius getting the house ready to sell!) Once we have the sale, we go to Mt. Home, Lord willing, to find a house there.

We are going to Idaho the third week of July to take care of the En Gedi Hospitality House while Ed and Suzie take a trip over to Oregon. We were there in May and it will be good to visit again.

Pray with us as we take each NEXT step. The next step seems clear. The one after that, not so much. We are going to be taking some compatibility tests to ensure this is a good team fit. We are waiting on mission leadership to make the final decisions and we are trusting the Lord to lead through them. All four of us are praying for this move and all four of us are excited.

So we are adventuring in faith with our great God. Come along as we lead THE WAY HOME.



In Him and for His glory, Janet and Eric