What the new year will bring

Plans are slowly falling into place for our year of home assignment which will begin in late July of 2009. One of the biggest pieces of the puzzle was a place to live in York County, Pennsylvania. Through a series of family connections (both past and present), a church called New Harmony Presbyterian offered us a house, rent-free for our five months in PA. There a couple of pretty amazing stories that go into this living arrangement but for now, let me just say that this house is situated less than a mile from where the first Murphys immigrated to in the mid-1800's. That's pretty weird. Here's a picture of the house during an idyllic fall day. (That's the church next door.)