Moving to God's Resort

I was driving back from a CIY (Christ In Youth) conference in Illinios when my roommate Katie called me. She had been in Jamaica for the last two weeks and had returned to our apartment while i was away. The reason she called was to tell me how frustrated she was that our apartment was infested with nasty cockroaches. She had come up with an idea to get rid of them: that we move all of our stuff to another apartment and have them spray down the one we where in, the move all of our stuff back. As apealing as this option sounded, i opted to say that if we were going to move all of our stuff; why didnt we just move to God's Resort?
Six months earlier to this proposition, Katie has said the same thing to me and three other girls that had wanted to live together to create a womens haven. A place where people that we met here in Joplin could go and have a place to live, shower, eat and rest for a while. Six months earlier i completely rejected the idea.
At CIY as young highschoolers were accepting Christ, rededicating their lives and deciding to go into vocational ministry; while Mark Moore was preaching about pain, isolation, community and that we where never meant to be alone. I asked the Lord to speak to me, and he did.
So this was how i found myself telling my roommate that we should move to God's Resort.
The night that i returned to Joplin, Katie and i talked about what i would mean to move to God's resort. The next monday we went to the neigborhood and then decided that if our current landlord would release us from our lease we would move.
So here we are now. Moved out of our apartment because we had to be out by the end of the month. Today is the first, the apartment is empty and we returned our keys. All of our belongings are at 312 Pearl St, where sheets are covering the windows, where i caught a mouse under a bucket, and where the basement is so scart we wont even go down there in the day.
But we wil be living in a place were we can make an influence in the lives of kids, were we can show adults how to love, where we can be a shining light reflecting the amazing love of our saviour Jesus Christ.