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Well, we've been in our new home for about 2.5 weeks, and all is good. Jenny started working at Subway a couple of days ago and is well on her way to officially becoming a 'sandwich artist'. I am still working part time on the weekends doing homecare, and am waiting to hear back from another homecare job which would put me to work through the week. I also have applied at a couple of places to do some cleaning. Please continue praying that we would both settle into full-time positions so that we could afford to live! We are also in the midst of looking for a decent car. 
Embedded above is a fantastic worship tune I heard from Ghost Ship, who play at Mars Hill Church in Seattle.
 
 
and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, but encouraging one another, and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.Hebrews 10:24-25 NASB
This verse has become the mandate for Jenny & I in the rest of our time here on PEI. We want to strengthen our local Church while we are here. We have agreed to focus on this and this alone while we are here. The importance of the visible Church of Christ has never been more important to me than it is now. I realize that bitterness to something Jesus has the utmost concern concern and care for is not a sign of great maturity but is altogether shameful.
If the Church "sucks", it is because "we" suck. That includes our friends, wives, children, and all who actually make up the Church. Only when Christians have a proper view of the Church will we strive to better it and make it what Jesus intended it to be. People outside the Church should be envious of what they see inside; a community unaffected by personal desires and selfishness, a community transparent and willing to be inconvenienced for the sake of each other. A community of servants.
Jenny & I aren't naive enough to think that this will happen overnight. It takes a strategy to turn people around. It has taken years to change my thoughts on the subject even! We are praying and noting ideas to shift the current situation into something better.
Focus and discipline are words that will have to take on lives of their own as we strive to strengthen our local Body.
Last Sunday, Jenny got to share a timely exhortation (click -->HERE<-- to listen). What would it look like if this were the hearts cry of all who call upon the name of the Lord? We can sit and think about the answers, or we can take it and run with it.
Jenny and I are sick of criticizing, it is now time to edify.
 
settling in 03/01/2010
 
Wow, who could imagine that life was so full of.........somewhat important things to do.
Since Jenny returned from Windsor, we have been running a rat race trying to meet with people, find jobs, find an apartment, find a car, get phones hooked up, watch Canada win medals, etc etc etc. I have a weekend job so far, with an interview for more work through the week on Tuesday. Jenny had a job interview at Tim Hortons today. We went and got hooked up with Koodo cell phones today. We have a couple of people keeping an eye out for a decent car for us. And we went and checked out a one-bedroom apt too. Busy busy busy stuff this life consists of. As soon as we get settled into a place, with some hours coming in, we will decide if correspondence is what will be of benefit to us, and start into that process.
One thing Jenny & I do not want to fall into is normal day-to-day, paycheck-to-paycheck "life". We have removed ourselves from the 'field' for a purpose, and unless we are fulfilling that purpose I will remove ourselves from this field as well. Stagnancy is something I just will not allow. We all must always be moving forward, even if it is only by babysteps. Spiritual advancement is absolutley necessary in life, or life starts to lose meaning. This life is much to short to become lacksidaisical or complacent.
If we take our eyes off the goal, then, what are we looking at?