We found a place to live

We are moving into a little rental house today....We are so relieved and excited....Can't wait for a little more space....Hotel living is NOT fun!!!!

Our address is:

810 Oak St.
Medina, OH 44256

will fill in more details and post pictures later....

We are in OHIO!

We made it to Ohio around 9 pm on Friday, January 25th. It was a very long and emotional trip, and we still have not found a place to live, so we are residing in the Hampton Inn in Medina. Which is a lot of fun when it comes to getting the boys to go to sleep at night and packing lunches for school...We are hoping to finalize our temporary home tomorrow. It was a long day today searching for places. The boys did start school today and both did relatively well...I have pictures of their first day that I will post later. I also have a lot of thoughts to share about our last days in Wichita, but with all the emotions that we have been feeling, I can't seem to find the time to work through them all to put down what I really want to say. That time will come, I am just going to give us a few more days here before I pen those thoughts...We are doing ok, and trying to get settled, as soon as we get our big yellow Penske trucked unloaded I am sure we will feel more at home, but until then we are feeling a little disconnected.... I will post more in a day or two.

some thoughts of the week

It is funny that when we got back from Christmas in Ohio we thought wow, we have 4 weeks to get everything done, and now we are sitting at not even 14 days until we leave. Tonight was Nate's last time leading worship to the Wednesday evening crowd of Glenville. As I sat there singing "This is the Air I Breathe", I was thinking to myself, this is all that matters, that I am desparate for Jesus and that I let Him speak through me. This has been an emotional week for Nate and I, as I have begun to really go through those junk drawers that have accumulated over the last 7 years in this house and put things in their proper place (finally)...we have both done some crying. We know that God has called us to this new area, it's just that we honestly thought we would never leave, I actually even said that a time or two. We will never leave and especially we will never move back to Ohio. When we first came here in October 1998 and then a few short months later we found out we were going to have Riley, I thought ok, this child will be born here but our next one definitely won't. Then 3 1/2 years later, I had Brady...and the rest is history. There are so many things that have happened to us in the last two years that have really been pushing in this direction, not that the last two years have been all bad, our ministry has grown and is thriving, but two specific things happened that if they had not, I don't think we would have even considered a move. It's amazing how the events of your life, good or bad, shape your future. I am scared to start over, but I do feel we deserve a fresh new start. We only want to do God's will for our lives, when we decided to move to Kansas, which was 12-16 hours from our families, many times we would get asked: "why would you move so far away from family?" and our answer was always the same: "God told us to go". and now that God has spoken again and told us to move to Ohio we are getting the question: "How could you leave us?, no one is ever going to be able to fill your shoes". Again: "God told us to go", this is our choice to follow God's calling, but also we answer to one who is higher than us and who knows every step of our future. We don't ask why? we just go. We know this is what God wants for us as a family and we are very excited for what our future and ministy hold, even though our hearts are sad and thoughts are heavy to leave this place we have called home for over 9 years. Proverbs 19:9~ "In his heart a man plans his course, but THE LORD determines his steps."

New E-mail and contact Information

Ok, here is the deal, since we do not have an official address yet, as of right now, I have changed our e-mail addressess incase we do not continue with Earthlink.net....here they are as follows:

Nate's will be through the Church: nateh@firstmedina.org
Rochelle: rochelleharmon@gmail.com
Riley: rileyharmon99@gmail.com
Brady: bradyharmon03@gmail.com


Nate and I also have myspace accounts that you can keep up with us with and they are:

Nate: www.myspace.com/nateandroc
Rochelle: www.myspace.com/live4jesus4

We will be staying with Nate's parents for a few weeks when we first arrive in Ohio and their address is:

5029 Broadway
Louisville, OH 44641

330-454-4672

Our cell phones are currently: Nate-316-304-1928; Rochelle-316-214-2241; but these will change to different numbers with 330 area codes soon, and I will inform of the change.

thanks so much to everyone who has meant so much to us over the last 9 1/2 years in Wichita. We are going to miss everyone soooo much.....

Wedding Ushers 2

Wedding Ushers

My boys were Ushers in a wedding on Saturday, January 5, 2008. It was an interesting Wedding. None of the attendants or Bride or Groom wore shoes....so Everyone was barefoot in January. God worked it all out though and made us have a wonderful day and the temperature was at almost 60. Everything turned out ok and my boys did a wonderful job walking the grandad down the aisle. Brady was a little unsure and ran back to Nate and I when he felt he had had enough. They looked very handsome in their red polos and candy boutineres, and Nate did a wonderful job on the flowers, he gets better with every wedding.

Moving Soon!

Hi, we are the Harmon Family-Nate, Rochelle, Riley and Brady. We have lived in Wichita, Kansas for 9 1/2 years and just a few months ago we felt God leading us in a new direction, and we are in the process of moving to Medina, Ohio. Our official move date will be around January 24th. We are very excited for the door God has opened for us, and the new path He is going to take us on. We have loved our life in Wichita and at Glenville Baptist Church (www.positivefuture.org), and honestly never thought we would leave, but when God moves you it is much better to be in His will than to do your own. We are also very excited because we will finally be closer to family, we will only be about 40 minutes from Nate's family and about 3 hours from my family.....that certainly beats the LONG----12-16 hour drive that we have been doing for all these years! We are now praying that our house will sell before we move so that we can get a house in Ohio.