We're home!
We had a great time relaxing and transitioning back to western culture with our friends in Germany over the weekend.
We arrived at PDX Monday with all of our luggage, a definite praise, and are settling back into life here in Newberg.
Our plan for the next couple of months is to find an apartment, which we think we've found (also a huge praise because it is month-to-month and we don't have to sign a lease), while I work and Michael continues to work on job applications.
Fortunately, I am still in the substitute systems here and already worked my first sub job yesterday (despite some jet lag still lagging...) We are hoping I will be able to work a lot throughout the rest of the school year, so hopefully a lot of teachers will be using their sick days and personal days.
Michael has applied to development-type jobs all over the country, and we are waiting to see where the Lord will lead us next. The first thing we heard on the radio when we got into our car on Monday was about how Oregon's unemployment rate is up to 12%, the highest in years, and one of the highest in the entire country. It was a great "welcome back to Oregon" moment for us. Our prayer for now is that something will open up that will be a good use of Michael's skills, knowledge, and degrees.
In the meantime, we are thankful to be back to our home church, where we've already felt so welcomed and taken care of (including a place to stay while we find an apartment). We are continuing to process our time in Rwanda and all the ways the Lord has spoke to us, stretched us, and challenged us, and will continue to share some of those thoughts as they come.
