Some background info on the last few months

At the end of December, I moved back home from doing my internship in Glace Bay, NS. I was exhausted and burnt out from having done ministry and full-time school for the last 3 years and needed a break. I moved into my parents basement for a few months to hide and recuperate while I wondered where I would end up next. I had a wedding to plan and time to look for a direction for after the wedding.

In March, I decided I would send my resume out to a few churches to see what would come out of it. It didn't take long for the church of Gaspé to get back to me and ask that I come up to spend a week so they would get to know me a little. I came up for a week. Preached four times in two different languages, did hospital visitations (since one of the leaders from the church had been hospitalized for heart problems the second day I got here), led Bible studies and prayer meetings. It was a busy week - which told me how busy I would be if I ended up coming here for real. And then I went back home and waited....

And waited... People around kept asking, so where are Jeremy and you going to be moving after the wedding? I'd gently reply, 'We're still working on it. I know we're getting married in a few weeks, but it will come together.'

At the end of April, while I was on my way to Toronto for my graduation, I finally heard from the church that they wanted Jeremy and I to come up for an official interview. Since Jeremy would only be coming to New Brunswick early May, the interview had to be schedule for... yep, you guessed it, the weekend before the wedding! During that time I rushed to get my credential application in, got squeezed in for an interview for those, and worked on the finishing touches of the wedding.

May 21st finally came along, and Jeremy and I drove up to Gaspé to have a couple hours interview with the board. For 30 minutes of this interview Jeremy was with us upstairs, and for the other three hours, he hid in the basement watching the spiders eat centipedes. I couldn't believe they had us come the week before our wedding just for 30 minutes worth of question. But, that is how it works. On May 26th we heard back from the board saying that they wanted us to come back to be presented to the church on June 13th.

May 29th came along and we finally got married! It was a beautiful day exactly as I pictured it to be. The decor, the weather, the people, the food, the everything was perfect! I loved every minute of it and enjoyed the day to it's fullest.

After the wedding we packed our car with all of our camping gear, suitcases and gift baskets and went to Pokemouche for a week where we had a most beautiful little cottage. After that week we roamed around a bit trying to spend the less amount of time in my parent's basement considering we were now homeless.

On June 13th the church voted me in as their new senior pastor unanimously and on July 1st we packed up all our stuff and moved to the little apartment in the back of the church that we now call home. It's been some crazy few months and the journey to get here has asked a lot of patience and perseverance on our part. But, God did not make me to be a stubborn person for nothing.