Housing Connections (alternative title: Crazy Small World Story)

I've written down pieces of this story at various times before, but the whole thing has become just so bizarre that I wanted to get it all in one place.

Awhile back I was introduced by email to an American missionary in Chisinau, the city we will be living in, by a friend of a friend.  (My friend lives in Kenya and her friend lives in Mozambique, so that was kind of random.)  Once I was in contact with this new friend, Robin, I discovered she was actually from Charlotte!

Meanwhile, in order to rent out our house here while we're gone, we put up a flyer at a local seminary.  One man called us to inquire about the house, and has since decided to go ahead and rent it.  He is getting married the very same day we are leaving and needed a new place to live.  (For more of that story and all the unusual coincidences, see here.)

Now here's where it gets really weird:  That man, Peter, and the woman I mentioned above, Robin, know each other!  In fact, Peter has stayed with Robin's family in Chisinau.

And here's where it gets even weirder:  It turns out Robin and her family will be coming back to the U.S. for most of the time that we are in Chisinau.  So, they've offered to let us rent their house, which we have agreed to do!  They happen to live right in the exact area of the city we were hoping to live in, and they're giving us a far better deal than anything we could find through the rental agencies.

In this small-world story, then, Peter will be living in our house here, he has already stayed in Robin's house, and now we will be living in Robin's house.  In other words, by January, Peter will have stayed in 2 of the houses we have lived in--- thousands of miles apart!  We met both Robin and Peter in such random ways-- and now have such interconnected circles.

Only God could work out our housing solutions in such an amazingly creative way!