Update on Life at the Kahn Home

I have never written a blog before, but the last couple of months have been crazy and I want to share what has been going on. In February, we were living life as normal. Andy was offered a promotion (that would have required a move) and we started praying about what we should do. At the same time, we decided to read "Radical," a book my dad had recommended over the holidays and that one of our friends had also recommended. To make a long story short, we decided to sell our house and move into an apartment in Vickery Meadows.

Vickery Meadows is an area of Dallas that has a lot of apartments and lots of people. It is where most of the refugees in Dallas come initially when they arrive in the US. It is definitely not the nicest or safest area in Dallas, but this D magazine article has a great perspective on what a cool place it can be (How Vickery Meadow became Dallas' own United Nations).

We moved into our new apartment on April 26th. The first week was hard for me. I think moving with 3 small kids is always hard, so I guess I should not have been surprised. It was hard to find places for our stuff (the apartment is much smaller than our house), I miss our neighbors, I miss the space in our kitchen, and I really miss living with Suzanne (my cousin who is more like a sister who is living with us until she moves to Chicago in July).

We have now lived here for one week and one day. It is getting really cool. Today, for example, we ate dinner at home and a little boy from Congo joined us. Then 6 Burmese women, who do not speak english, and 5 of their children came over to sew (more on this later). Then some of the other people from our church who live in Vickery, some fun friends, and a new Nepali friend joined us to watch the Mavs game tonight.

I will write more details later. I want to quickly mention the sewing project as an explanation for the pictures on facebook. Emily, one of the Northwest Bible girls who has lived here for 8 months, started sewing with a couple of girls from Nepal. The goal was to fellowship with them and give them a way to make a little bit of money for thier families. This week, 6 Burmese ladies joined the mix. We now have bags that are up for sale. All of the money goes to the refugees (on a $20 bag, they will take $18 home and save $2 for supplies. We are really blessed in that we are getting lots of donations to help cover the cost). Tonight was really fun. It was amazing that although we don't speak the same language, we were able to communicate well enough to have a great time and each lady was able to complete 1 bag. I am so excited to get to be a part of this.

Here are a few pics of this week.

Ruth in front of our new apartment

Some of the bags sewn by the Burmese and Nepali ladies

Burmese sewing group on Saturday

Our awesome new bedroom! The movers were a bit surprised that you could fit 3 beds into the bedroom. A sweet reminder that GOD is in control and has a plan for us... the width of all of our beds is 90 inches, the width of the bedroom is 94 inches!

We are blessed beyond measure and really excited to see what God has in store for us.