We have big news! It is with great joy that we recently found out of all the places we could be deployed in Europe, we've been assigned to RAF Alconbury in Cambridgeshire, England when we head overseas. This is the same base where I lived when I was Eli and Liam's age while my dad served there for three years . What a privilege to come full circle and be able to do ministry where I lived as a boy! It will be exciting to see my boys making memories on the same base I did.
I have a lot of fun memories from there: walking to kindergarten and having my cats follow me to school... getting stuck in a bentwood rocking chair.... a bird flying in our house and causing my mom to freak out.... But one memory in particular stands out...
In 1977, my dad took me as an almost 5 yr old to see a movie that captured my imagination.... Star Wars. I remember sitting through what felt like HOURS of bad British commercials and film shorts before finally being transported to a universe with light sabers, talking droids, and Obi Wan Kenobi. Throughout my childhood (and yes, admittedly, adulthood), I was a huge fan of the Star Wars story and characters, and to some extent, became a part of who I was.
Now as a parent, it's been fun to see my boys be captured by the same story, playing with the same toy figures I had as a kid. With Disney promising to resurrect the Star Wars franchise with new movies in the theater starting in 2015, I can't wait to take my boys to see their first Star Wars movie in a theater, overseas, the same place I did over three decades ago.
Returning to this same base is poetic for me, and I can't help but think it's not coincidence. God has a way of providing in big and small ways, and in this case, a pretty cool way. Keep us in your prayers as we begin preparations for the "return" to Alconbury!
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