Moon Light & Yoo Yue sign the lease on their first American home tomorrow. It's a nice 2 bedroom duplex right around the corner from our church and around the block from our house. They are excited to have their own place and putting their new life together. Our church and World Relief are furnishing their home from the bottom to the top. It has been quite a project, collecting stuff, purchasing items and making sure they like what we are gathering. They arrived with hardly anything, some clothes and personal items but that is about it.
It has been a lot of work helping a family enter the US and become familiar with all the ins and outs of American life. Government meetings, housing, funding, medical, doctors visits, english lessons around the kitchen table, household lessons about everything from how to use our various bathroom stuff to washing machines, stoves, microwaves, tvs and anything else you wouldn't find in a village in Burma. But dont let that stuff fool you, they are smart tacks for sure. They love to laugh and are quick to learn too.
So much I could share about so many things thats for sure. It has been a stretching experience but a rich one too. Last wed. night it was cool to hear all of them singing hymns with LeeElla in the kitchen. We will have to include some in our sunday service because they know them in english. They love the Lord and Yoo Yue even plays guitar. She picked it up at the church and started singing a song with her kids...it was quite moving to watch.
So ends this leg of the KaRen journey but more is to come. Two of Yoo Yue's sisters are arriving with their families too. The first family of 5 arrives on September 22 and the second, a couple, arrives on the 25th. So it all starts over again...whew! So pray that we all will stay energized, prayerful, rested and healthy to help with the next families. Pray that we can find them housing in our neighborhood too, so that all the families can be close to each other, our church and our home.
God is good.
2 comments:
I can't tell you how happy hearing about all this makes me. It's a strange well of emotion. I see it as an extension of the love and pain I felt for people inside Karen State. I wanted to share with them that the outside world cares, but I didn't know how to exactly do that. "Here, let me take your picture and I will make you better". I didn't even believe it myself. But seeing and hearing what you are doing here helps connect these dots. Thank all of you for being on the team and catching the ball. God is good. Even when we don't see.
Matt, I so agree with what you wrote. I am so proud of the church for taking on this mission of love and it just gives me pride pimples all over. One family rescued from bitter oppression and delivered into the arms of Christian brothers and sisters waiting to love. Does it get any better than that?
Eric, I can imagine some of the difficulties in a venture like this and I can also imagine the deep soul moving richness your whole family experiences along with those of your church.
Yes, God is good and His work pays the highest wage.
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