And So We're Gone

We got back into the States on September 8th and have been raising support ever since. We set a goal and probably reached about 50% of that. We simply dropped the goal level and say we have 100% :). We think it should do us well to live on.
As you can see, we have another blog (thehanoverfamily.blogspot.com) where you can be updated about the family. We have traveled to about half of the States in our support raising. We left for Ethiopia on March 19th and picked up our three girls we adopted. We have been back since the 28th of March. We just recently drove out to AZ for our new assignment in Flagstaff. We just found a house and will be moving in shortly. Although staying in America wasn't our first plan and our hearts are still overseas, recently there has been a small window into God's plan. Our youngest has shown some signs of illness through all her medical testing and some of her meds require us to be here for 9 months. God knew all along.
We will be working at NAU (Nothern Arizona University), the third largest university in AZ measuring in at about 18,000 students. A large part of that student population is Native Americans, as we are right outside a Native American reservation. The town consists of Native Americans, whites and hispanics as it's majority, which I think is a great mix. It is a huge tourist town because it is the closest "city" to the Grand Canyon and I think half of the buildings are hotels. It comes in around 80,000 in population.
We have joined up with the team here of 2 other couples, one single guy and a single girl. They are a ministry underneath CCC called Lifelines. Lifelines uses the outdoors to draw students out and then uses the adventures they take them on to bring in spiritual topics. The ministry at NAU is relatively new and just starting to slowly take off. They are excited about the storying aspect that we bring. Their mentality seems to be "if it works, we'll do it". Perfect.