Since I’m often behind the lens, I thought I’d “steal” this from my dad’s flickr site and put up on our blog. Gotta love the strawberry residue on Ezra’s chin and subsequently on my shirt!
Hooray! We just got word that we’re approved to rent a 3 bedroom/2 bath house in Mira Mesa! We will have a *separate* office, which means we can work and print things after Ezra goes to bed. Ezra will have his own room and Francis (and all of us) will have a YARD! I’m so excited.
Check out our new digs here.
Now we just need to raise enough money for our salary so we can pay rent. 
We are soon to be gainfully employed! Bryce got a job at Harbor in San Diego. Harbor was started in 1999 and now has about 8 sites with approximately 5 church planters, but it’s one church. He’ll be spending about 75 percent of his time developing outreach and mercy ministries with the Mira Mesa and UTC sites and the other 25 percent will be spent seeing other church plants start across the city. We’ll let you know more soon. (Also if you’re interested in supporting us financially and/or through prayer, please email me your postal address. We have to raise most of our salary for the year).
I’d like to think more about living intentionally in either the city, country or suburbs. So, in preparation for a future post of mine, if you could please answer the following questions for me:
a) Where did you grow up (city, country, suburb) and where do you live now?
b) Are you married and do you have kids?
c) Where do you see yourself living long term? Is it influenced by either a) or b)?
d) State your reasons for c). Is it simply due to circumstances or due to feeling it’s the right place for you (or something else)?
…is still pretty little. Here are his 9-month stats:
Weight: 16 lbs 12 oz (3rd percentile)
Length/Height: 27 3/4 in (25th percentile)
Head circumference 50th percentile
So we will keep feeding him as much cheese, avocado and banana as he likes as he’s obviously not keeping too much of it on his bones. Ezra is a happy boy who is quite active, loves to smile and laugh, loves to move around (crawling and some pulling up on to furniture now), and loves to make a mess with his food. He also really likes door stoppers, cords and laughing when he crawls from the carpet to the tile.
After three days, our online home has returned. Anyone looking for a web hosting package is advised to avoid 1and1.com.
If anyone’s still interested in joining my online book club (and hasn’t done so), please leave a comment in the comments section. Our first selection is Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and we’ll be starting to read this weekend! The link to the book club is here.
Dear Reader(s):
Might you be kind enough to recommend a blog or two that you particularly enjoy? My blogroll (in my bookmarks section, not on our sidebar) seems to have grown a bit stale. I’d be happy to read anything that’s particularly interesting in most any category. So if Joe Schmoe has a blog that simply updates us on him and his family — and I don’t know Joe Schmoe — please do not recommend his blog; if, however, he blogs about things that cater to a wider audience (the arts, family, religion, philosophy, etc), then by all means, please pass it on.
Thank you kindly.
The Management at TheLionRampant.net
I’ve found a few sentences of our support letter oddly helpful and apropos now:
Would you pray that God would use whatever it takes to make us dependent upon Him so that the church we plant would not bear our own name but His? And would you consider supporting us financially either with a one-time gift or a pledge for monthly support in your own act of trust that as you give in faith, God will provide all your needs as well? Thus, confessing our doubt, we still believe; wanting life to be easily understandable, we know it’s not that simple; and desiring to hold on to our plans, we instead put our faith in Christ.
I guess I just didn’t think that all of that “stepping to the edge” stuff would happen now. I guess I had wanted a year to plan for that. Ah well, life isn’t that simple.
