Home Hunting Complete...the Church Hunt is ON!

Well, as you can probably tell from the title of this post, we have found a place to live! What a godsend, huh? I can hardly believe that we've only been here for 10 days and already we've found a wonderful little home. We ended up leasing that cute little house in the University District that Brian wrote about in the last post. We're planning on taking pictures of the outside today after my Italian lecture, and then we'll post them for you all to enjoy. Once we've moved in (January 15-17!!) we'll take some interior shots; those are more fun than the outside anyway, right?

Brian is particularly excited for the basement, henceforward known as "The Man Cave" where he plans to do manly things...like build model airplanes (rrraaaawwwwwwwrrrrrrrrr!) Do you hear the manliness? No...he'll probably build stuff down there, too, and hopefully have some good male bonding time with other "buildy-type" men. My one question is about the washer and dryer down there. Does that mean that part of the Man Cave belongs to me, thereby decreasing its manliness? I think not. I will just have to do laundry when he's not around :-P

Well, one down, one to go. The church hunt has begun. For some reason, we've been sticking to the Christian Reform denomination as we begin our search. We're denominational muts, as is, so really we're just trying to find a church home where we can grow. Our first attempt was at Seattle CRC. Nice little congregation and the sermon was thought-provoking...but we were by far the youngest couple and we really want to plug in with others who are in the same place in life that we are.

This past Sunday, we went to Sanctuary CRC, which is inside of the Taproot Theatre, a Christian theatre company around here that I plan to check out sometime in the not-too-distant future. They are a very young church, begun just over a year ago. Their worship is good and their pastor is really great. He, like Seth (the pastor at PCI for those who don't know him), seems to have the ability to "comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable" and to be controversial in a gentle way, "speaking the truth in love". We are going to a viewing/discussion of the movie Crash at the church office tonight. Hopefully that will prove entertaining and enlightening. If all goes well, we should be back at Sanctuary again on Sunday.

Brian mentioned after church that there are pros and cons to the church being so young. It's a little scary because you don't know what will happen, and they're just getting on their feet. But, it's also exciting because there is so much room to grow and serve in a church whose traditions aren't yet solidified. To be a part of that growth and service would be a great blessing.