I am a slooow blogger. Until we actually move in to Newark, there isn't much to share. We are waiting for one more building permit so the inspectors can come check out the work that has been done. The outside of the house looks great. The next step there will be to have the iron worker in. He is putting up a fence with a locking gate in front of the driveway. We added 2 windows to the house so he is also making 2 more sets of bars for the downstairs windows. (o: We need to do a little more painting on the front of the house, and then there is just the matter of finishing off the entire inside of the house. Just a little matter. Our move in date is August 1st no matter what! As soon as I learn how to add pictures and links to my blog, I will let you all see the house.

I admit it. Sometimes I think we have lost our minds. It's a good thing to know that Jesus said whoever loses their life for His sake, are the ones who will find their real life. I trust that applies to our minds as well. There is just such a huge learning curve in leaving the white suburb life and living incarnationally in the inner city where we become the minority. It is a good thing, and good things are seldom easy. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

I'm having a (thankfully) quiet day today. Teaching music all day is tiring, though its not the music, it's the discipline.
I have rediscovered baking and am baking my 3rd iced cake from scratch in 5 days. Don't worry, I give them all away. This one will go to Newark Christian School to the office staff, teachers and custodian. This, of course, after Steve taste-tests!

I really should have called this blog Hoernigs on the highway to Newark. My husband Steve and I are in the process of becoming missionaries with World Impact in Newark, NJ. Right now we are support staff and Steve commutes in 5 days a week, bringing me in with him 2 days a week. It is a 40 or so minute commute on the Garden State Parkway so that speaks for itself. Steve wears lots of hats but mainly building maintainence oversight and job-training and discipleship of high school boys. I teach music at the K-6th grade Christian school in our facility. A house is being renovated for us and when it is done we will move to Newark permanently.
It is a privilege to be called by God to continue to work for Him in a new venture. Steve spent 11 years at a para-church youth mission and I spent those years working at the local Christian bookstore. This is all new and a real adventure. God is good.