Our Journey Began at Home

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A birds eye view of our new home!

That's right, God began to show His almighty hand of provision weeks before we arrived in Puerto Rico. Getting plugged-in to a church family was #1 on my priority list, not for what the church could do for us, but for how we might follow and serve the Lord while living in Puerto Rico. Afterall, the baseball opportunity that is being handed to Hunter is only part of the equation, I just know it! While we have yet to see what fruit will come from the level of baseball training and time focused scholarship he will receive, we begain to see God's almighty hand of provision in the most basic way weeks before we arrived in PR. Isn't that how He always works, meeting our most basic needs first? An online search for a protestant church on the island (PR is 95% Catholic) turned up a North Point Baptist Church near the area we would be staying. A quick email to the pastor, informing him of our relocation, put us in touch with Brian and Keli Elkins and their three precious children, Jordan, Jadon, and Jameson. Keli and I formed a friendship online in the weeks leading up to our arrival as she and Brian "adopted" us into their hearts even before meeting us, and now into their home as we have been staying with them while waiting for our apartment in the tourist area of Condado to be ready for move in.  May I be a living witness to the fact that God is indeed a Father to His children who are in Christ, and as such we are brothers and sisters in Christ who need each another in order to serve and build one another up in the body of Christ (Mark 10:42-45). With the breakdown of the family being at the center of all social and national ills, it is refreshing to see God's plan for His family of believers still at work! Thank you Brian and Keli for being the very instruments and strong voice of the Lord in saying, "Come to Puerto Rico Harsh Family!" and as we arrived on your doorstep for dinner the second night here, and continue to visit in your kitchen every morning over breakfast, we continue to hear the Lords voice saying to each of us "BIENVENIDA!" 

As I inferred in the title to this post, His provision began before we even arrived and for those of you who were worried about our safety, being that David will not be with us on a daily basis, Brian is an FBI agent! He's checked out our location, given us pointers on how to be "smart" while living on the island, and provided a first hand account of the similarities and contrasts of what we think we know from television of the role of an FBI agent! :)

Harsh and Elkins Families (little Jameson was asleep)