On Hold..

I know that you are all thinking what is up with this title? Well it is regarding our move to St. Louis, that I've been blogging about for about month. Well we are not going to be moving to St.Louis. We believe that God has been letting us know that this is not His plan. The cost of living in St. Louis is so much higher than here of course, and we sort of knew that. But then we started looking at the schools for the kids. The apartment that we were planing on living in, well their school district isn't the greatest in the St. Louis area. The great school district is where the campus is located. We didn't want to live on campus b/c they are so much smaller and a lot more than the other apartment. This apartment we were looking at allowed animals. We have a 1 year old Yorkie, and did not want to leave him behind. But the bump in the road again was the school district. Then we came across that we could find another apartment to live at or house to rent. But they were still around $800 to 1,000 a MONTH! With Deon going to school he could only work about 20 hours a week. That would leave me working 30 hours or more to cover on to live. Then when what would we do with the kids? That would leave me working All day and Deon working after school. So the kids would be left out by them selves. They aren't old enough to be left at home by themselves for that long of a period.

So we slowed down and thought real hard. So we thought with some great friends of ours (which is our pastor and his wife) that why don't we look into the online course you can take at RTS (another seminary school). Which Deon did think about at the beginning but he felt that being hands on would be better. So we did not put another thought into it. Now here are again thinking about it. Another thing that was brought up was that Deon has even talked to any of the committees (that can give advice on these situations etc..) We looked at each other and said "We are doing this all backwards." We were trying to do this all by our selves when there are people who could be helping and we weren't asking. I truly believe that this was not God's plan for Deon to go to this seminary. I believe the online course would benefit everyone a lot better, and not be such a stressful house hold. (Oh the stress in this house!) I know in my heart that it is God's plan for Deon to become a ordained preacher, but I believe he has another plan for Deon to accomplish it. There are other options out there, and we were ignoring them.

So at the moment, we are on hold with going to a seminary. There are committees that Deon need to talk to, before we take the next step. I will keep you all up to date.