From Wit’s End

Well, we had another all-company meeting today at 11am, and the result is in: My factory is closing.

Rachel and I have been mentally preparing ourselves for this possibility in the past month, so we were ready for this. Though it’s jarring, it’s definitely a relief, too.

We have a number of things to do and decisions to make, so I would ask your prayers about the following:

• Pray for that God would put us where he wants us as a family, and puts me where he wants to employ me.
• Pray about whether we should sell or rent our house. We want to make a data-based decision and be good stewards of what the Lord has provided for us.
• Pray that we would have peace through the holidays while contemplating an uncertain immediate future.
• Pray that we would be stable as a family until and immediately after Nora is born.
• Pray for all the other employees and families affected by this. [On my way home for lunch, I passed by a manufacturing coach comforting a crying female associate.]

I think its going to be hard for everyone to care very much now that everyone knows that its going to end in about a year. There will be the opportunity to go up to Newport News and take up the work there, but I know there are many like me who are not willing or able to do that.

That’s about it for now. Thanks for listening and being here for us.