First Day of Class!

We are in our city! For those of you who receive our emails, we let you know that we started classes today! Whew whoo! We have so been anticipating this day for several months now and it finally came. Thank you to everyone who remembered us today! Classes went GREAT! We both had just one class today. We would normally have more but all the freshmen are in orientation this week so no freshmen classes meet until next week. We both had sophomore classes today. So many students, with hopes and dreams and background stories we look forward to hearing and knowing. We have more classes all this week. Please ask that we would have wisdom as we seek to make deepen our relationship with our students- we are asking for the who, when and how specifically! We have roughly 30 students in each of our seven classes…for a total of 410 students for the semester. We know it’s important not to spread ourselves to thin so we need wisdom as we make friends and form deeper relationships. We could not be more excited to be here! We often stop and step back in just amazement that we get to be here, that we have been given this opportunity, that our school seeks to be a blessing to us. It’s so incredibly rewarding already and we cannot express how grateful we are to be doing what we’re doing.

In front of our school's main building on our first full day in our new home city.

D's shiny forehead made the first day selfie. :)

My first class' first day selfie!

Just had to share this because it blessed us so much - this is a picture our group from Knoxville sent us this morning! Their signs say "Happy first day of school!" We are so grateful for a body who actively and intentionally "holds the rope" for us on the homefront. We really could not do this without them. Love you all! Thank you for the sweet surprise!