A Couple of weeks ago, we were part of an outreach to Barberry Apartment Complex in Outer Southeast PDX. We, along with 13 others from The Door spent three days together on this outreach. During the mornings we would worship, pray and have practical teachings. In the afternoon, we went to the apartment complex to love on kids, share the gospel, and meet practical needs in the community. There, Christian and I connected with several influential families in the neighborhood. Their kiddos are in the pictures below. We were mainly looking for people of peace, people who were open to spiritual things, the gospel and to relationship with us. Our goal was to find these people, establish relationship and in the future move toward developing small groups in the neighborhood. We definitely found people of peace and have been blessed by the new relationships. In light of them, we are now learning conversational words in Swahili, Arabic, Spanish (obviously Christian doesn't have to learn Spanish), and French. I personally, could not be more excited. Here is a picture of me with the kiddos.

Here is one of Christian too...

This week we will mainly be unpacking remaining boxes, getting a little more settled in and working on some more practical life things like passing the Oregon drivers test, getting new license plates, changing over voter registration, and getting caught up on connecting with everyone!