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Moving Day

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Avery & Addison with a mountain o boxes
Moving Day at the Hand house was November 14th.

After packing for days on end, our house in Mableton was stacked deep in boxes.  Our last move was “pre-kids” almost 9 years ago, so we’ve seen exponential growth in our ‘Household Stuff’ department.

Understatement of the year:  Moving is overwhelming!

What did people do before the cardboard box?  Certainly back then people must have had much less stuff to put in the boxes anyway!

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Avery, Addison and Toby say farewell to some friends and take one last turn on the backyard swingset.

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Go with the the pros!  The movers arrived and promptly tackled the mountain of boxes.  These guys did a great job:  Hardly a scratch on any of our items; they were very throrouh and courteous.  All of our stuff arrived in Florida on time and we did not lift a thing.  Praise the Lord for so many answered prayers with a good, safe move!

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A Mere Stones Throw

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Here is a bird’s eye view of just how close our new home will be to Campus Crusade for Christ Headquarters. (Map courtesy of Google)

Although the photo indicates there are only open fields in the area north of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Campus Crusade for Christ, over 100 houses have been built there during the last year.

Only the Lord and His grace could have provided such a convenient location for us! It will be a ½ mile drive, 4 minute bike ride or 10 minute walk to the office each day!

Financial Update

How He Brought It To Pass

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To sum up: The Lord God heard all our prayers and He answered! . . .And He answered even beyond what we prayed for!

Sold Our House
We asked you to pray that our house in Mableton would sell by Columbus Day (October 9th). The people buying our house came to see it the day before Columbus Day and gave us a formal offer two days after Columbus Day! Please pray that the closing goes wellit was scheduled for November 8th but has been postponed a day or two due to some technicalities (incomplete paperwork) on the buyers’ side.

Support Provided
We still need approximately $200 per month more to be at our minimum goal, but compared to where we were support-wise a year ago, it is simply amazing! What’s even more amazing is how God provided again and again through unexpected and unplanned avenues. Praise the Lord!

Home in Orlando
It’s still coming together, but it looks like we will be able to purchase a new home in Orlando which is within walking distance of Campus Crusade for Christ Headquarters!! Originally, the price of this home was way more than we could afford. After they accepted our low-ball offer, we can only give credit to the power of prayer through God’s amazing kindness. See more.

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Our Sending Church

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We will love and miss all our friends from Westside Baptist in Mableton, Georgia. They have become our home church and are sending us out with love to the Lord’s work in Orlando. Today was extremely special as the church had a special prayer time for us during the service and then blessed us with many nice send-off gifts.

Westside is a very small church by Atlanta standards, but their influence is incredibly broad. Check out the excellent selection of audio messages from our pastor, Dr. A.T. Stewart. Several of his sermons have been downloaded hundreds of times – even from multiple locations overseas. People everywhere are searching for the topics Dr. Stewart is addressing from God’s Word. . .and they are listening! This is significant. The Word is going out much beyond what we can see at home during the service.

What a blessing that the Lord has allowed us to be a part of this special body of believers for so long! Being sent out by them means so much. We couldn’t do it without you, Westside!