The girls at Duke

We had a ton of fun yesterday with my co-workers from Duke!  My friend Gretchen (top photo) threw a big party for us full of great food and even better fellowship!  They even collected money to help us transition to Vermont life!  We are so thankful for such great friends!  These girls have been a great encouragement to us!  I am really going to miss them!  Here are most of those who came with our family (note the happy husband and mischievous kid in the photo... I love those boys!)

Nathanael has just started saying I love you!  He also loves talking on the phone! We are praying he will adjust well to the new group of people he'll meet in Vermont.  

I also continue to be grateful to God for the sale of our home!  It feels great to walk outside and see the FOR SALE sign say Under Contract!!  The new owners have their home inspection next week, just in time for the house to be completely full of boxes awaiting our pack-up day on Saturday!  One week from today we'll be loading a truck!  

Boxes, Boxes, Boxes

I never realized how many boxes it would take to just empty one closet! We are packing up and finalizing our schedules from now until April 5, the day we begin our trek to Vermont.  Last Sat, we signed a contract to sell our house (praise the Lord), enjoyed some time with friends from SEBTS and ladies from OMV (our church). We are both still working, Brian with one more day at Dick's and Allison with 3 more days at Duke.  Every night from here until our move date, we have plans to spend some quality time with our sweet friends!  We are so grateful for each person... and plan on having some of them visit us this summer to help out at the church.  Nathanael is also getting ready for his trip... He will now answer with "Ah-mont" if you ask him where he is moving.  What a joy he is.  Here are some great shots of our little man!

We're the Conyers and we currently live in Youngsville, North Carolina.  We love Jesus and in seeking to serve Him with our lives, we will be moving very soon.  We decided to create this blog so that all our friends and family can keep up with us as we venture to Barre, Vermont (according to a recent gallup poll, the least religious state in the nation).  We will be working with Faith Community Church in Barre, Vermont being mentored into church planters.  After one year, our family will plant a church in a new community in Vermont.  We are grateful for the ways in which God has already blessed us!

We traveled to Vermont back in January to meet and interview with the church.  A week later, we began searching for jobs and a home in Vermont and started packing up.  Our home went on the market February 21st.  We started praying that the Lord would work everything out in His timing and that we would be faithful in trusting Him for that timing.  

Since that time God has provided a place for us to live in Vermont (sight unseen, but we are trusting!), a job for Allison as a home health nurse, and just yesterday, a buyer for our home.  Praise the Lord for His gifts!  We know that apart from Him, we can do nothing, so we give Him the praise for taking care of these details and preparing the way for us to serve Him in Vermont.  Please join us in praying for the people of Vermont as we pray that their hearts will be open to the gospel of Jesus Christ and that lives will be changed!