u-haul out of town

by this title one should be able to tell that jenny and i are moving. well that is correct. after some initial uncertainty about what might happen. but before i tell you where we are going, here are some of the ideas that we considered over the past 6-7 months

1. jenny being an rd at iwu (shatford to be precise) they were considering her before she removed herself from the process.

2. i going to asbury. then i visited josh and went to a class and decided not for me at this moment.

3. staying in sc to help with a church restart. considered this up until yesterday.

4. sent out my resume to multiple churches in maryland and michigan for youth ministry.

of course non of these things happened. things started to come together when i flew back home for my grandfathers funeral about a month ago. i ran into my home pastor from high school and he asked about my situation. i had told him that we just resigned that previous sunday. little did i know what he was planning. later that day he came to me again and said that his brother in law was looking for a youth pastor, and had called him about 15 minutes earlier and talked to him about me.
three weeks later jenny and i went to the church for an interview. it was a very good church running about 300. pastor bud fancy has 30 years of experience pastoring. including a short time being my parents pastor back in maine. the other assistant greg dakin is a graduate of bethany bible college and was a youth pastor and dyp before moving to new york a year ago. it is in a small town of 5000 very similar to the town i grew up in.
as for the youth group, they have been without a pastor for 7 months and in that time have dwindled in number. they really need some consistency and leadership. they have a barn bash every fall which last year brought in 1200 teens. this year they are bringing in the band, kids in the way.
if you are wondering where it might be it is in pulaski, new york. about 30 miles north of syracuse where jenny will hopefully be able to start graduate work in social work by january. things have come together really fast and at first scared me quite a bit. but i know this opportunity has happened for a reason. i just want to be faithful and be able to give it all the attention that i can from here on.
we will be finished with greenville first wesleyan on wednesday july 27th and we will be up in new york the following week.
please pray for us in this next journey

good bye greenville hello pulaski