Did you receive our newsletter?

I tried to figure out a way to post our newsletter in blogger, and I kept running into roadblocks with publishing a pdf. So if you have not received our letter and would like it, shoot me an email at kimber.king@gmail.com and I'll send it your way. I had a lot of fun creating it (and making Greg read and edit it).

Let me know what you think! I wouldn't be surprised if it takes us another three years to do this again! Ugh!

In other news, Drew & Carrie arrive in less than 48 hours!!!

New Friends

Manali (Ethiopia), Mamuna (Somalia), Ruksana (India) & daughter Namira, Jesmin (Bangladesh) & daughter Atkiya, Cece (Libya), Rachel (Haiti), & Fizola (Bangladesh)... We had a room full of women tonight at Rindge Towers English Conversation Class! And four women volunteers came to help as well! What fun! I was happy to see that six of the ladies returned from last week. I'm thrilled to have their friendships and excited to see how they develop over the summer...

Conversational English Class!

Tonight was a refreshing night. Our church, Hope Fellowship, is hoping to partner with a nearby apartment complex in providing various community services. One of those is - drumroll please - English language help! Yeaaaa! So after praying over this opportunity and meeting with our community outreach guy at church, I decided to help out for two weeks with their new English Conversational Class. It was so much fun! Other than showing up and having the coordinator ask what I wanted to do with the night (let's just say, I was thinking, "What? I was supposed to prepare something?!"), it was a wonderful time to be with internationals who desire to improve their English skills. (And the coordinator, Scott, did end up facilitating the time. *sigh of relief*) Barely over a year ago, I returned to Michigan from a month in Denver carrying with me my TEFL Certificate and wondering how God would use me in the years ahead. Hopefully, this is one of those answers. On my way home from the class, I felt God giving me passion and vision for how He can use me, Greg, and our church in the lives of these people and their families. Oh that they would know the God of Glory... That they would live lives of wholistic worship to the King... I love what God is doing in Boston!

I haven't committed to leading this conversational class yet, but it sure seems God is leading me to that. I'll facilitate the time next Wednesday evening; I'd love your prayers for Greg & me as we make this decision.

Saturday thoughts

I woke up this morning depressed, had two nightmares that left me numb. Definitely not a fun way to begin a Saturday. Greg let me sleep most of the afternoon - I just couldn't kick the numbness. While making a couple meals this evening, I was thinking pretty seriously about where I am in life. I asked our community group to pray for me a couple weeks ago concerning my struggle with accepting the sacrifices marriage is requiring of me right now. Granted, it's not anything huge compared to the suffering of Christians around the world, but it's still not easy for me to accept with joy right now. I'd been told by many experienced ministry wives that being a seminary wife is an extremely difficult role, but I think I was surprised when it started hitting me hard after the new year and a year and a half into the role. It's a season of waiting and postponing for me...and for Greg too really. He's doing something he's dreamed of doing for a while - being in seminary - but it's really for the purpose of what comes after seminary. So he's having to wait (in a sense) as well. For me though, I struggle with having to wait to make a family, having to wait to be able to pursue teaching English (whether that is pursuing a masters or a teaching position or both), having to wait to be able to give a good chunk of my life to people (instead of my job), having to wait to pursue dreams and passions because I'm overwhelmed with the necessities of my job, our home, our finances, etc... Don't get me wrong, I am blessed to have the job I do. I love serving my co-workers in Tufts Career Services. Being an administrative assistant is no glamorous job, but it allows me to pour my life into serving others - my co-workers - by hopefully making their work lives a little easier and less stressful. All this to say that I'm struggling to be content with this season of my life. Hmm, do you see a trend? Anywho, would love you prayers and encouragement. I'm so thankful for Greg and his love and acceptance of me through my struggles. Pray for him to keep showing me grace - I'm so in need of it...

Don't forget to change your clocks tonight!