Laura and I have officially moved to College Place, WA. All 26 ft of our life sitting in a moving truck waiting to be unloaded (soon I hope!).
Karl Haffner preached a good sermon this morning about "change", the inevitability of it occurring and it's irreversablility (they just changed the name to "University Church"). Funny, I could have sworn I lived here before! In reverent tones during the sermon Laura and I noted that our return seems to have happened just as we were liking Portland (minus the commute).
We are looking forward to moving in, settling down, working out (@WWU), swimming (@WWU), playing in Lions Park and generally making a nuisance of ourselves. Ya'll are more than welcome to come by and see the new digs (after Monday).
Tim has received an interview for a Communications Tech position in Ariel, WA. We are praying about what to do. It is a beautiful spot about 15 minutes east of Woodland. AKA Out in the boonies! I would be working on hydro-electric style communications and possibly PLC equipment. There is some possibility of employee housing availible at reduced rent, onsite. Otherwise I would be enough out of town that traffic wouldn't really be a big deal.
If we decide we're not interested or they decide they're not interested, we most likely will be transfered to Yakima at some later date. Yakima has the advantage of being more technically challenging work-wise and I'd be working as my own foreman with a great group of guys. However we would be forced to drop all the friendships we've made here in Vancouver and start over again in Yakima. We aren't very excited about this. Leaving our friends in Walla Walla in the years previous has been bad enough.
Please pray for us as we make this important decision.