Moving Day!

Today we celebrated the move of 6 more of the Agape Home kids into their new home! This is the fifth of five homes that we built and will "officially" open tomorrow. All five homes are fully occupied as of today, as we moved three pairs of natural siblings-one pair of sisters, one pair of brothers and a brother sister pair into their family home. What a great day! There was excitement, joy, and a bit of palpable nervousness as these kids contemplated their new surroundings and the enormity of this change. They have been getting to know their house parents slowly over the last three months, and tonight they will spend their first night together in a new---and different kind of family then they have enjoyed and come to know back in the Agape Home. Change...it is never easy, eh? But along with the anxiousness comes the excitement and promise of something new. My heart is full of all these things as I write this---and full of gratitude for all of the many people who have helped make today and tomorrow possible. Here's to new things, to acknowledeging that they can be scary, and to hoping and trusting that joy will come in the morning!