Okay, here we are, it's April 06'. We're moving to Richland Washington in 3 weeks. A lot of people have asked a lot of questions in regard to this move. Most of them are why are you moving, why there, and how did you decide? I'll attempt to answer these questions.
About 2 years ago, the Lord made it clear that we were not to stay in Richmond Va permanently. He actually gave us a time frame of two years. So, I knew we were suppose to move, but where? I wrestled with this for several months. For awhile I thought Australia (Sounds nice huh). Fortunately I only told a few people about this idea so when the Lord made it clear that this was wrong, I only looked silly to a few people. Well, I know I look silly to more than a few. Anyway, I continued to wrestle. I think we all do this. We all want to know the Lord's will, but we're not sure if we're not waiting long enough or if He's already spoken and we missed it, or something else.
So I continued and about 5 months later, in October 04' during a time of prayer God revealed to me that we were to move to the Northwest. He actually allowed me to see a vision. I won't get into details about this, but I will say I feel priviledged to have been spoken to in this way. It's funny because everytime I speak of this I feel funny like people are going to think I'm weird, but don't we all ask to be spoken to like this?
Well, now I knew it was the Northwest, but where exactly? Again, this is where I stepped out ahead of the Lord. Why do we do that? So, we had some good friends moving to Portland Or and it just seemed like a good fit. They're moving there, we should move there too. The thing was we never had a peace about it. There was however a place in Washington that has been brought to our attention over the past few years several times called Tri-Cities. It has come up in many different ways and seemed like a neat place. But, we don't know anyone there and I've never been there and Michele's only driven through there when she was young. We never even talked about moving there seriously until about three months ago. But, we began to ask ourselves why not? And like that everything seemed to come together, we had perfect peace about this place and all the details were lining up. The only thing that made me hesitant was that I'd already told people Portland. Isn't pride funny? You'll actually do the wrong thing just to cover up the fact that you were wrong in the first place. Well, I swallowed my pride, I'd spoken too soon about Portland, I was wrong. So, now were headed to the Tri-Cities, Richland to be exact.
Now, people always ask, "What are you going to do there?" I think people want to hear some sort of tremendous answer and my flesh wants to give them one like, "We're going to plant a church, a mega-church" or "were going to start a new work" or something super spiritual and cool sounding. But, I'm of a different persuasion. I think what I'll do there will look very similar to what I've done here. Isn't it kind of weird to think that I'd move and be different? I mean if I didn't do anything tremendous here why would I start doing it there? That would mean I was either holding back here or faking out there. Now, I know there are probably other explanations when things like that do happen, so please don't get too offended. We're just going to continue to pursue Jesus in all that we do. I taught a little Bible study here and that really became my passion. I intend to continue teaching in whatever capacity I can. Will this turn into something else? Who knows? The only thing I know is that I've been called to go so that's what I'm doing. I guess we'll all see. Anyway, I think this answers the original questions. Leave questions or comments if you like.
Peace
Harold
