After the Prayer Walk DC, God opened up a door for the ASL ministry team of YWAM DC to move into a house in NE, DC! We know that faith can move mountains and prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective! It has been just over a month that we have moved into "The Lighthouse", an amazing house 5 mins away from Gallaudet University in Washington DC.
We were so blessed to have the support of Jason Hershey, the YWAM DC director in the whole process of moving in. He told us to go for it, helped with all the leasing and helped on moving day! Above is a picture of our team in front of our house, with Jason and Josh (another YWAM DC staff) in the back, who helped us move in.
Pastor Dave Owens of Embassy Church honored the ASL ministry team by "sending us out" from the NW side of DC to the NE side of DC at a Sunday morning service. Dan was thanking the church for supporting us and being amazing partners the last two years as we lived in their building. Then Pastor Dave Owens lead the whole church in praying for us as we moved on to the other side of D.C.
Moving! Moving! Moving!
Dan rented a huge Uhaul. All morning we packed the Uhaul.
We ate lunch. And then all afternoon we unpacked the Uhaul.
Kimberlee Hershey, Jason's wife, send flowers to our house for our crew the day we moved it! We found a glass bottle and put them in water right away to decorate our home.
Olive is attentively paying attention as her dad, Dan, is leading the first team meeting at our new house. She has her own spot for our team meetings.
The week we moved in, we decided to have a BBQ, cooking hamburgers and hotdogs to get to know our neighbors. We cooked and gave out 100 hamburgers and about 40 hotdogs in 3 hours. There was a mixture of deaf people and hearing people, neighbors that we had invited and others who just smelled a cook out. A few came back for seconds until we eventually ran out of meat!
We were received so well and really believe that God brought the key people he wanted us to meet last night. Many people opened up their homes to us for the summer when they barbecue. The word I heard over and over was "family". "Welcome to the neighborhood, you are family."
We met our next door neighbors at the BBQ. They really enjoyed the brownies we made.
We see them everyday and are getting to know them.
They just got a pool for their kids for the summer and all LOVE holding Olive.
Maurice and Rahnisha are in the picture above and Emoni is holding her in the picture below.
The BBQ was definitely a GOD IDEA, as we see many of the people we met that night in the neighborhood. We are developing relationship with many of them and I have personally had the opportunity to pray with a handful.
Back Row: Josiah, Liza, Destiny, Caleb, Dan, Carole and Olive
Kneeling: Danni and Renca
We are so excited about where God has placed us and what He wants to do through us here!
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