Encouragement

As Jan 10th gets closer and closer I have been asked the best way to stay in touch with us.  Living so far away from family it will be hard for our local family to stay connected.   Knowing that we will be in great need of prayer over the next year with all the changes and separations I wanted to take a moment to share our "social networks" with everyone.  For the most part they are connected

Blog:  chaplainjim.blogspot.com
          chaplainwifearmy.blogspot.com

Facebook:  jjmitchem
                  dmmitchem

twitter: jjmitchem
           dmmitchem

For an update on what is going on.  I took my oath last Saturday so I am now officially in the Army again.  We are also moving up the timeline for our big move this spring.  Knowing that I will be deploying this summer we want the family to be all settled in as fast as possible in Hawaii.  With this, we are scheduling to have our household goods along with one vehicle picked up the last week in Feburary so they will be waiting for us when we arrive.  Denise and Cody will move down to Ft Jackson and we will leave from there.

We are finding homes for our animals, way too expensive and too dangerous for them to go through the long process of getting them to Hawaii.  This is the hardest since they are part of the family.

As I prepare personally for all this I was led to post the following to my future Chaplain School classmates:

ENCOURAGEMENT: The following is what I have come to know as the Ranger Verse: 

"I don't say this out of need. for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content, whe...ther well-fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need. I am able to do all things through Him who stengthens me." (Php 4:11-13)

We will be taken care of and I am comforted in knowing how many will be praying us through this journey.

"For God and Country"