posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 4:55 AM
by
tnorris
A new year begins
Happy new year! The Norris family is beginning a new year in a new home, in a new state, and with a new career. We've been here in Texas with International Family Missions for seven months now and we're just starting to feel like we belong here. Praise God! We are a little more than a week away from the next IFM outreach "season." Teams will be here from the end of January, pretty much every other week, until the end of August. As a family, we are very involved with the first two outreaches. Then we will pull back and get ready to meet the newest member of the Norris family who is due to arrive in early March.
We had a nice Thanksgiving with the House of Cornelius family and a nice Christmas as a nuclear family. We were blessed with visits from my (Thaine's) parents and Erika's parents in November and January respectively. The rest of the time has been "normal" homeschool life and lots of computer networking and web work for IFM.
We haven't been involved directly in ministry activities during this down time, though we have had some wonderful visits to various orphanages and some friends in Mexico. But I have been engaged in some very deep discussions with a few friends about BIG issues. As God would have it, we all saw The Chronicles of Narnia as a family in early December, which started a personal re-reading of C.S. Lewis' non-fiction works, which was perfectly timed with deep discussions with two friends who have huge life questions. The result has been several weighty email exchanges and a lot of prayer. I say this to introduce some new blog posts that are more philosophical and or theological than journalistic.
So rather than post these in the regular flow of the Norris Family News, I have created an article category called Worldview that will have a few articles as they are refined over the next few weeks. You can see the first one here: http://community.ifmus.org/blogs/norrisfamily/articles/113.aspx and you can always click on the article category on the bottom of the menus on the right side of the page.
--Thaine