26 May 20122
by Cindy
An update on someone who knows someone who lives by someone...
This past weekend we were able to take a student from our university to church with us. As we were talking she mentioned that she's Palestinian, with family in Jordan and America but she was raised in Saudi although she's an American passport holder. Her brother currently studies in America, at...University of Texas at Arlington. Per Google maps, that's exactly 3.6 miles from my mother's house. We figured out it would take only five roads and three turns from her brother's house to my mother's house.
Later that same day I was at dinner with a big group of people only to find out one of my friends here lived in Arlington while she was in kindergarten and first grade. While we didn't go to the same elementary, we would have gone to the same junior high and high school and would have been in the same graduating class. Too bad she moved to Iran after first grade.
18 January 2012
by Cindy
I said I would update/re-post this blog every time we met someone who knows someone we know or something of that sort. So here goes...
When Jeff and I were in Lubbock we would annually host The Traveling Team in our home. This is a group of post-college young adults who travel around to US college campuses mobilizing students to go abroad. You can read more about there here. One of ladies who came through our home years ago has since married, had children and now lives in our city with her family! We are fortunate to get to have dinner with her family from time to time and catch up. Who knew that a connection from years ago would come full circle!
December 2011
by Cindy
Even though we live 8,000 miles away from Texas, there never seems to be shortage of people we meet who know someone that we know. And occasionally, we have a friend in common who is a very good friend of the person we just met. I've been keeping a running list but I thought I would go ahead and post the list and then each time we someone who knows someone, I will repost. Meeting all these people certainly makes 8,000 miles seem not too far and helps us to realize that it is a small world after all!
by Cindy
An update on someone who knows someone who lives by someone...
This past weekend we were able to take a student from our university to church with us. As we were talking she mentioned that she's Palestinian, with family in Jordan and America but she was raised in Saudi although she's an American passport holder. Her brother currently studies in America, at...University of Texas at Arlington. Per Google maps, that's exactly 3.6 miles from my mother's house. We figured out it would take only five roads and three turns from her brother's house to my mother's house.
Later that same day I was at dinner with a big group of people only to find out one of my friends here lived in Arlington while she was in kindergarten and first grade. While we didn't go to the same elementary, we would have gone to the same junior high and high school and would have been in the same graduating class. Too bad she moved to Iran after first grade.
18 January 2012
by Cindy
I said I would update/re-post this blog every time we met someone who knows someone we know or something of that sort. So here goes...
When Jeff and I were in Lubbock we would annually host The Traveling Team in our home. This is a group of post-college young adults who travel around to US college campuses mobilizing students to go abroad. You can read more about there here. One of ladies who came through our home years ago has since married, had children and now lives in our city with her family! We are fortunate to get to have dinner with her family from time to time and catch up. Who knew that a connection from years ago would come full circle!
December 2011
by Cindy
Even though we live 8,000 miles away from Texas, there never seems to be shortage of people we meet who know someone that we know. And occasionally, we have a friend in common who is a very good friend of the person we just met. I've been keeping a running list but I thought I would go ahead and post the list and then each time we someone who knows someone, I will repost. Meeting all these people certainly makes 8,000 miles seem not too far and helps us to realize that it is a small world after all!
- Our friend Katie who we know from LateNite in Lubbock went to seminary with our pastor and his wife. When Katie came to visit us, she walked into our church here and said, "hey, I know them!"
- A couple in our small group, Dianne and Kent are very close friends with our friends Marcy and Bob, from Lubbock.
- Our children's pastor is from Snyder, TX.
- There is a gentleman here from Denver City, TX (!) who we run into quite a bit.
- Our pastor and his wife went to college with our friend Emily who we know from Irving, TX
- Our friend Susan, from Lubbock, had a patient at her dental office who is the mother-in-law of a pastor at a church here in Dubai. We visited the church when we first arrived and the pastor knew our names before we knew his!
- A fellow church member, Laura, went to school at Lubbock Christian University and was in Lubbock at the same time Jeff and I were there.
- One of our elders knows our friend Greg at Asbury Seminary.
- The craziest one of all (to me at least) is our friend Josh. Josh was here with his friend Todd, who we've known for several years. It turns out that Josh is the half-brother to my former step-brothers and sisters. So we're kind-of related. We didn't figure that one out until after his visit but it is a very small world!
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