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With much excitement and a little hesitancy my wife and I are moving forward to a new season of life.  We sold our house yesterday.  In 30 days we will be packing up what we can take with us and moving to Tajikistan to share the gospel among an unreached people group that lives there. 

I plan to keep a couple Redemption decks but realistically I can't take most of these cards with me.  I need to part with them quickly so they're priced to sell.  I'm also giving 100 free commons for every purchase of $10 or more.  Just include a note with the brigade(s) you'd like.  Shipping is $1 per order.  I can accept paypal, checks or cash.

Yes, this was an April fools joke.  I expect that someday we will be called elsewhere, but that hasn't happened yet.  It might be across the state, across the country or across the world.  All I know is that we need to be ready to go and hold on to the things of this world loosely.  Both of those things can be tough.

Last year I took a class called Perspectives on the World Christian Movement.  This year my wife is taking it.  Talk about an amazing eye opening experience.  There's so many awesome stories about how God has been moving throughout the ages and the class ties it all together.  If the class is offered in your area it's worth the time and money.

Thanks to all who PM'd me and offered your support and prayers.  It's great being part of this community of Redemption players.  I cherish what we have and will miss it whenever God calls me away.

Oh, and thanks for being good sports!  I promise not to be so ornery next year... maybe.

Gabe

I will take:
2x GoYS
2x DoNS
1x Captured Ark
2x Wall Protection

Total: $25.00
Shipping: $1.00
Grand Total $26.00

Where do I send Paypal?

Thanks and Good Luck.

I'll take everything that is left on the list above...but seriously, $4 for Authority of Christ promo...April 1st...I think this is a little obvious...but if not then...ahhhhh

If you went through all the work for this to be an April's fools joke, good one..................
if not I'll take the

Josephs in Prison x3
King of Tyrus (Wa)
King of Tyrus (pr) x3
Priest of Christ x3

Heck if you sell the rest of the collection in bulk I'll buy it.................This must be april fools but I can't pass it up if its not LOL

I've got tons of PM's.  I'll try to reply to everyone this evening.  Thanks for your patience.

Gabe

I want to be the greeter at GabeMart.   

With much excitement and a little hesitancy my wife and I are moving forward to a new season of life.  We sold our house yesterday.  In 30 days we will be packing up what we can take with us and moving to Tajikistan to share the gospel among an unreached people group that lives there. 

I plan to keep a couple Redemption decks but realistically I can't take most of these cards with me.  I need to part with them quickly so they're priced to sell.  I'm also giving 100 free commons for every purchase of $10 or more.  Just include a note with the brigade(s) you'd like.  Shipping is $1 per order.  I can accept paypal, checks or cash.

The bolded part is why I, personally, KNOW this is a joke. Hahahaha....selling a house quickly in this market...hahahaha

    I will check in to buy my selections tomorrow. 

except, I've been trying to sale for well over a year AND banks are making it very hard for most to get loans AND people are losing jobs AND people are afraid to invest into a house with a collapsing economy AND the list goes on...Trust me, I have had MANY conversations with my real estate agent.  I know more about the housing market than I want to.

I don't know why you guys are all putting in your offers cause on the fourth non Gabe post I said I would take everything that was left...

I hope so cause if Brian is really uprooting his family and taking them to Tajikistan he will likely need a much funds as possible. I mean have you checked this place out yet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan

YMT I thought the same thing, then I went and checked it out and was like oh my gosh it is a real place.

BrianGabe, how'd you learn the Fārsīwān language?  Was your college amazingly diverse, or are you just planning on going as a Macaulay-type 'English-only culture destroyer'?

Front page updated!

I expect that someday we will be called elsewhere, but that hasn't happened yet.  It might be across the state, across the country or across the world.

Perhaps even to a small boarding school in the hills of Eastern KY where God completely transforms the lives of teenagers who really need transforming.

Thanks for the cards! Mint too. I thought they would be a little worn.

lol  now you are contaminating this thread with all the star trek talk from the other

I want to be the greeter at GabeMart.   

Yes, this was an April fools joke. 

Gabe

D'oh!  I'm unemployed.   

I told you guys the quick selling of his house gave it away.    That and his announcement conveniently came on April 1st.

I must admit from time to time my faith has been rattled some by the slow sale of our house.

But then, God sends an encouragement in different forms to let me and my family know He still cares.

It has been a frustrating process, because my personality type likes to see the "end of the tunnel" or to "know the big picture." 

I understand what it is like to have a house not sell for a long time.  Let me encourage you by sharing a similar experience and how the Lord brought us through it.  I pray you might take comfort in what the Lord will do for you and your family after hearing what He did for mine.

The Lord moved my family from Virginia to Florida a couple years back due to God calling my dad to a new church (He is a pastor).  We put our house on the market in early February 2007 and this was in the midst of the rapid collapse of housing market.  My dad had to move to start his new position in March in Florida and left my mom and my siblings (minus my older sister at college) in Virgina.  In a small town of 5,000 people in Florida, there were not homes available for sale that had more than 2 bedrooms and it would be so hard to live in a house with only 2 bedrooms, so we had to decide to build a home there.  My dad needed a place to live in the meantime, so he rented a house there.  My family moved down during the second week in June to the rental home as the builders began construction of our new home.  However, our house back in Virgina just would not sell and we had to slowly lower the price by a fourth of the initial listing price.  It was a very trying time for my family, as my dad had to make payments on 3 homes starting in July 2007, the one for sale in Virginia, the rental home in Florida, and the new home being built. 

We already were hard pressed to make ends meet in Virgina when we had a single house payment to worry about, so it was definitely a time of great reliance upon the Lord during the 6 months of 3 house notes.  We sought after the Lord in the sale of our home, but it was not the Lord's timing.  God was good and provided enough money each month to cover three house notes, and it was incredible to see God's provision!  I started college in August and was not there during most of this trying period, but it was incredible to hear of God's amazing greatness in meeting our needs during such a hard time.  As I was in prayer at school over this situation, it was so encouraging to get phone calls from my parents about how money, food, and other gifts were anonymously mailed to us and people who hardly knew who my parents were approached them to help make ends meet.  We moved into our new home just before Christmas in 2007 and the house in Virgina finally sold in the the early spring of 2008.

The housing situation did not go the way we expected it to, and it was very hard on my family, but God showed us that His ways are higher and that He was using such a time to teach us to fully rely on Him more.  We had to trust God to literally provide for our daily needs, because if it weren't for him, my family literally would not have had money to put food on the table.

I hope you don't mind reading the long post, but I wanted to brag on our God and His greatness and give Him the glory He deserves.  I pray that this is an encouragement to you to continue to seek after the Lord wholeheartedly, and He will be faithful to meet your needs, and that includes selling your home.

Praying for you and your family, God bless,
Kirk

Thank you Kirk and others for sharing with and encouraging me.  I'm just carrying one house...I can't even imagine 3.  It is great to hear how God moves and cares about His children.  Again, thank you for encouraging me.  At Christmas time, I couldn't imagine how I was going to keep the house until March and now it's April and God continues to provide.  Again, thank you guys for your encouragement and prayers!