Last Night

Adam enduring the rain.

Well, this is it. After calling downtown Vancouver home for 7(!) years, we are moving away. We first lived on Granville st. on the 3rd floor of a brand new tiny 1 bedroom apartment. We lived near a lot of clubs, and it was always noisy on week-ends.

After a year there, we knew we had to move - too small and noisy. At the time, we felt God was calling us to plant a church in Yaletown. So, we explored the possibility of buying an apartment in Yaletown. God miraculously led us to the beautiful apartment that we have enjoyed for the past 6 years.

Our apartment is large for downtown - 1100 sq. feet. It's on the 26th floor w. floor to ceiling windows in every room. The building has a gym, pool and hot tub. We are walking distance from everything downtown. In fact, for 3 years we didn't own a car, because we rarely needed one.

It's an amazing apartment, and a great investment as well. We plan to continue to rent it out over the next 2-3 years, including over the 2010 olympics.

The house we are moving to, we are renting for 10 months while the owners are living in Cambridge. The owners are the Froeses - a family from our church. Awesome people. And their house is awesome too! Huge - something we would never be able to afford w.out their generosity. We were there today moving some stuff, before the big move tomorrow.

I sat on the deck in the backyard and looked around. I felt a little bit like Woody Allen in one of his movies where he is staying in a cabin in the woods. He wakes up continually, thinking a wild animal is going to get him and he can't get used to the quiet.

The quiet is the first thing I noticed - and also the lack of human activity. Downtown, its pretty easy to immerse yourself into a flow of people walking down the street - out there its just cars, and a few people walking.

It is going to be an adjustment, but as I've said before - we both so strongly feel God's guidance in this whole thing. And anyways, we're only 35 minutes from downtown!

I can't wait to be moved in and settled - this transition thing is pretty stressful. And I still have to preach on Sunday!