Hola

  For those of you who don't watch as much Dora as we do, 'hola' means hello in Spanish...I am not trying to insult anyone's intelligence by beginning this way I just can't think of a better way to start.

The Moore family (Ryan, Ada, Mae, Anne Hardin, and Virginia), along with eight college students are headed to Madrid, Spain for eight weeks this summer on a great adventure...and I honestly feel a little like Dora the Explorer, excited and ready for anything that might be ahead of us ,though not knowing much Spanish, no backpack that contains everything we might need, nor a talking map that can always tell us how to get where we need to go...so basically I feel like a little girl about to head across the ocean to a place I know nothing about ,where I can't speak the language, and I am taking my three small children. Sounds fun right? Who's with me?

How did this happen? Well, it's a sweet story of God's own weaving people together. To begin, Ryan, my fearless and handsome husband has been working for Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa for the last five years. He is amazing and pretty much the greatest person I know, so I've got that going for me. Anyway, Ryan is always up for an adventure and when our friend David Barnes contacted him about the possiblity of spending the summer in Madrid it was a no brainer...bring your family...sure...Bring students...absolutely!! All so exciting, right? Well here's where it gets fun, David and Daniel Brink have just recently moved to Madrid with their families for a long term mission with MTW (3 years to be accurate) from their home in Germantown TN. Ok, guess where I am from? Guess who I grew up with? These guys!! It's crazy, I know! I would have never thought that our lives would intersect this way, I would never have planned for my hubby to be Skypeing and emailing with guys that knew me when I was an obnoxious teenager (I've really changed A LOT since then, really A LOT).

 So that is just the beginning of this story. Since then, God has brought together a team of eight students, who instead of spending their summer making money or laying out ( the way I like to spend my summers) chose to leave the comforts of the USofA, their families, their friends and venture into the unknown to see what God might do through them....heroes I tell ya, heroes!  I'm not nieve enough to think that this little escapade won't have it's share of troubles(the details alone, of traveling with three kids four and under are keeping me up at night) but I am so encouraged already, just by the way that God has brought us all together!

And now here we are...on the internet, reading a blog about an upcoming trip to Spain! The primary purpose of this humble blog is to simply record and communicate the events of this adventure...to give a glimpse of what the Lord is doing in the world through His people. I hope you will be apart of this, I hope you will pray for us and enjoy hearing about our endeavors, struggles, mistakes, and successes! I also hope you wont judge my grammar, or be too put off by enormous amounts of pictures of my kids...

Muchos gracias,
Ada