Dear Family and Friends,
As many of you know, our home in Minnesota has been on the market since last July. Jon started his new job here in Evanston on September 1st and our home has yet to sell. Throughout the last eight months, we have never doubted God’s leading us to serve at Evanston Bible Fellowship and relocate to the Chicago area. However, our housing situation continues to be a growing challenge in our lives. After lowering the price of our home many times and offering a variety of incentives, we have yet to receive an offer. While we continue to trust in God’s sovereign goodness, we are in a dangerous place of growing more tired spiritually, emotionally, and physically by the day. Many of you have offered to help us and have helped us in a variety of ways, for which we are very grateful. Still, we continue to believe that the most important thing we can ask for is your prayers. Desiring to earnestly and intentionally seek God on this matter, we will be setting aside this coming Friday, April 27th as a time to fast and pray regarding our housing situation. We ask that you would join us as you feel led.
Some specific ways you can pray for us are as follows:
1. the sale of our home
2. wisdom for us as we have many decisions and choices to make regarding this matter: we want to be good stewards of the investment of our home, we want to sell it for a fair price, we want to trust God’s timing, we want to make wise choices for where to live in the mean-time.
3. for our family during this continued time of transition.
4. that the Lord will lead us to the right home in the right place.
5. that God will be glorified in our actions and attitudes regardless of our current circumstances.
Regarding Friday, we would invite those of you in the Chicago area to join us in praying together at our home in Evanston from 7 pm to 10 pm. We are currently living at 2316 Brown, Evanston on the second floor of a two-flat. Feel free to come and go as your schedule allows.
Please feel free to pass this along to others who would be willing to pray with us. Thank you all for your love and support.
Still trusting in His sovereign goodness,
Jon & Laila
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Jon and Laila,
We join you during this dedicated time of prayer, fasting, and seeking God. The valley of God's Will is wide... see the depth and breadth of it... not the tightrope that we often feel.
We can't fully understand the range of emotions that you feel, but know and understand that we care and we love you.
Scott and Amy
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