Well, it's good to be back in good ol' San Diego! To the left is a picture of Crystal Pier, an icon in PB. It's one of my favorite places and one of the first beaches I took my kids to when we first arrived back. God has blessed us with typical March San Diego weather, plenty of warmth and sunshine. It's nice to have tanned feet again.
In our 21 years of marriage, we have had three distinct phases so far. The first 4 or so years was finishing college for Kelley, doing youth ministry at Del Cerro Baptist Church and laying the foundation in our marriage. We left a very comfortable situation there to attend seminary up in Marin County and start a new life. God blessed us with 4 amazing years there and once again, we left a very comfortable situation for the unknown when we came back to San Diego to start a church. God was very gracious to us in that he allowed Coastlands Church to exist for over 13 years from core team development to the end.
Now we are in phase 4, returning to San Diego and ready to start something new once again. We are excited about buying another home here in San Diego, stoked that we made some cash on the sale of our home last Fall and way-stoked that just like 8 years ago, we are once again in a great place to buy a house. We've got a decent amount of money to put down and housing prices in San Diego are certainly good for buyers.
Please pray with us that God will open the right doors as we look to him for my next pastoring job and a nice house so we can resettle somewhere here in San Diego.
2 comments:
Hey Evan,
It's Stuart Gardner, My wife and I went to Coastlands several times, and I helped clean up the school with you guys.
My wife Christina and I were at Target last week and saw Kelley. We exchanged smiles, but we weren't sure if it was her, but now I see you guys are back. Welcome back. I hope the job search is going well for you. Christina and I only attended Coastland a hand full of times but I felt a strong connection with you guys. I would love to hear how God led you back to SD. I would also like to hear where you end up working. We finally settled in at a church in Tierra Santa. Canyon View Christina Fellowship. For me, it always helps when the Pastor surfs :)
We will keep you in our prayers!
Stuart
Stuart,
Good to hear from you. I wish I could've seen you guys at Target too. Seems like that's a great place to run into friends, that happens to us all the time.
Presently we are praying about a church in Encinitas. It's an older church that recognizes the need for new life and we might be able to help with that.
Glad to hear you landed at CVCF. I know their pastor Mike and have even surfed with him. We surfing pastors gotta stick together!
Thanks for the prayers.
Evan
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