Exhausted and excited!

We are so so grateful how God has provided every step of the way. It's been so clear that He has gone before us and laid out His perfect path for us. It's our job to TRUST Him even though we can't see the whole plan. During this time we are covering everything in prayer. We are having to be totally dependent on God to come through and provide. It's raw and it's real.

That's where we are right now.

Kyle is still job hunting. The position he interviewed for several times has not been filled (when he talked to HR the other day) but he still hasn't heard back from them or others. Tomorrow he will be going to more places to apply. We are praying that when he leaves the house he will know exactly where to go, that people will be available to talk with, and that he will make connections...tomorrow.

As far as SaltRock... We are getting SO excited about our Easter Sunday preview service! We are still praying that God will provide the location for us that He wants us to meet at for atleast Easter and Mother's Day services. Forrest has meetings with people at 2 different locations the next 2 days. On Sunday, we drove around and prayed at several locations that we thought would be great spots... Now we are waiting for God to open the doors!

This was in our devotional today:

"...This is why prayer is so spiritually dangerous for Satan. It supersedes the limitations of a mortal world. Prayer is immortal. It has no boundaries and no marker lines. Prayer holds ultimate potential. The best the Devil can hope for is that you don't pray. And much of his strategy is to discourage you from praying at all, as a prayer never prayed has zero chance of ever being answered."

In other news, I've started running again. Since having Bailey, I haven't ran that much, until a couple weeks ago. I've worked back up to 2 miles. My original goal was 3, but since I'm already at 2, I'm thinking why not 5. The most I've ran before is 5 and I'm good with that number. I might stick with 3... Who knows! My thought was- I want to get back to 3 so if anyone was like "hey, wanna run a 5k?" Then i would be ready. Haha!

The Countdown is ON!

Today was a good day!
It was our first Sunday to go to church in Jax because last Sunday we were taking my parents to the airport. The plan for the next several weeks is to visit churches around the area and see what they have going on and see what we could possibly take away that would be great for us to do as well. Or maybe even things we want to do differently. Also, there are churches we will potentially want to partner with in order to do community outreach type things. So- today we all went to a church called The District that's in a part of Jacksonville that's called the historic district. It's a church that is only 2 years old. We had great worship and teaching and really enjoyed it!
It was def a younger crowd, but seemed to be a thriving, gospel centered church. I can't even explain how NEAT it was to be worshipping as a church plant team! (minus the Goolsby fam) It was so exciting knowing that we are getting so close to our launch date/1st preview service. Our goal is Easter. That's 49 days from now!! (Forrest is a fan of countdowns, so we are frequently reminded ;) )
After church, we went to lunch to have some good talk time and discuss things that needed to be discussed. When we left, I told Kyle that the whole morning made me SO excited because since April of last year we have been talking and dreaming but now we are executing. We are here. We have prayed. We are continuing to pray. We are focused, moving, and ready to see what God has in store for Saltrock!

Continuing praying for us as a church plant team that we will not be easily distracted. Pray that our eyes will stay upwardly focused and bring God glory.
Pray with us as we are praying and searching for a location to be able to meet and also for some form or fashion of worship leader/team. (None of us are musically inclined haha)

As for the Brewer fam-
-Kyle has had 3 interviews with the same company. He is suppose to hear something this week. We want to be exactly where God wants us to be, so are praying that in terms of employment as well. We know that God knows exactly what we need and we are trusting Him.
-Bailey has not fully adjusted and isn't sleeping like she used to... :/ that's sad for all of us! Haha!

Much love!

Here we are...

The goodbyes are necessary and loved but I admit that I'm ready for them to be over. I was in a go, rushed, focused mood for so much of the last couple weeks that I hadn't had time to be emotional. The last few days I've still been go, go, going but the goodbyes have begun. We have hugged tight, said lots of I love yous/see you laters, and cried. I hold my ugly tears back and do a pretty good job without blubbering around people, but as soon as I close the door they come...and they come big. (...until Bailey cries and I hop into mom mode and have to suck it up.  Ha! But, even then, I know I'm just pushing it back and it'll come eventually.)

I'm going to do my best to keep you updated on the life of the Brewers, all the goings on of our adventures, and what God is doing in and around us. Of course, you'll see daily updates on fb, but so many have asked, so this is where the big updates will be.

So- like they say when they get cut from a show... This isn't the last time you'll see (or hear from) me!!
Bahahaha! 😉

Much love.