We’ve been told that we need to be beyond flexible, we need to be fluid to be on the mission field.  That’s a lot to digest for a girl who likes to plan.  We have already seen a lot of change since we became missionary appointees with HCJB Global a year and a half ago (has it really been that long?!).  And we know that our lives will experience plenty of change in the years to come.  We met with the regional director of the Asia-Pacific region fairly soon after we came on board with the mission.  During that meeting we were told that the office might be relocating from Singapore to another location, but at that time everything was really up in the air.  Since then that regional director felt led to come back to the US to take a different position with HCJB Global and we had a new regional director come on as of October 1.  He was already serving in the region and transitioned to the new position.  When he came on his first priority was to make a decision about the office.  The decision-the office will no longer be located in Singapore. So, we will be moving somewhere else.
Currently three locations are being considered-in Southeast Asia.  The rest of the team will all be in the new city by August 2011, so our goal is to move not long after they all do-late August/early September.  As I said a few weeks ago, God’s timing is perfect. Had we hit our original goal we would have moved just in time for this decision to be made and would have ended up in Singapore for less than a year.  What we need to raise will be decreased by possibly up to 25%.  Until we know where the office will be we won’t know exactly what our new support schedule will look like.
At this time we don’t plan to make another trip to Asia before we move, so the adventure factor has been upped and we’ll be moving to a third world country with two small children sight unseen.  We know that God has already gone ahead of us to wherever we will be living and He will be with us wherever we go and in whatever we do.