Transition Update...

Well, here we are with only 3 days of school left, and quite frankly, time can't go fast enough.  Tomorrow is the last day of final exams for the students.  Thursday is reserved for a service project day where students and their teachers go out and do something to help the community in some way.  A couple classes are helping clean churches, others have gone tracting at the subway stop near our school in the past.  So, that gives you a general idea of what Thursday holds in store.  Friday, then, if our final chapel.  During this chapel, teachers hand-out academic awards of achievement throughout the year, and student awards for teachers are given, too.

Next Tuesday marks the beginning of summer school which I am manning this summer.  It will last until Friday, June 26, taking me practically all the way up until we leave.  Being able to do this, though, is a huge blessing in that it helped us pay for our plane tickets back to the States.  It is not very laborious, just time consuming, and time is something of which I will have a lot.  Next week during the afternoons (after summer school), I will be helping my floor waxing partner for the last time as he gets started with the daunting task of waxing all the floors in the school over the summer.  Praise the Lord, though, that we will have some former students helping us move classroom furniture (the hardest part of the job, really)!  That will make the work-load much less than what it was.

I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with our car insurance company this morning getting everything ironed out for our coverage to start on July 1st.  We also decided to get renter's insurance through USAA, too, as doing so gave us a small discount on our car insurance.  Both of them combined only came to about $83/month.  So, it continues to be a huge praise that my Dad kept that going for us while we were here in Korea.

I heard back from both Pastor Rushing and Lavoy Byars, our head deacon, about the housing situation this morning.  They are both working very hard to find a nice place for us.  Pastor Rushing sent a link to a rather nice place, is in the right price range, but doesn't allow pets.  I told them that we trust them to make the right decision, and that not being able to have a pet wasn't necessarily a deal-breaker.  In all, it seems like they have a good grasp on the market, and we trust that God will help them make the right decision for us.  Please PRAY that God will continue to guide them through this process, and that they will find His perfect place for us before we arrive.

We are going tomorrow to sign-over our car to our good friends The Lowell's.  He was my assistant coach during the soccer season.  Please PRAY that all goes smoothly during that process.  With the language barrier, it's easy to get confused when talking about these kinds of things.  So please PRAY that everything will be good to go, and the time we have to spend at the office won't be long.

Well, that's about it for now, I think.  A bit shorter than usual, but I guess you need a break every now and then...:)

In His Service,

Sam, Dulcy, Michael, David,and Katherine Healey