James and Lisa Hatton exPandinG thE Reach of thE goSpel 
Have you ever had difficulty filling out forms when it comes to questions like ‘Permanent Address’. Over the years, we have puzzled over this and similar questions as we never quite know what to answer. Over the past thirty years we don’t seem to have lived anywhere permanently.
The Lord has been gracious to provide for us to purchase a home in N. Ireland and one of the benefits will be to have a ‘permanent address’ that will make filling out forms that much simpler!
Just this week, our offer for a house in N. Ireland was accepted and the legal wheels are beginning to turn. We hope to take possession the end of October. We are looking at it as a place for our family to call home as they come and go around the world. Indeed, we don’t see it as a place where we will settle down but rather, a place where we can launch out from and return to.
God has used the process to challenge our thinking. We have been challenged not to covet, to be grateful and to have an eternal perspective on property, among other things. It has been a thrill to be challenged to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
We are grateful to all who prayed and provided and to the Lord that he would be so kind as to give us this place that we can call home until he comes and calls us home to be with him forever.
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