Raptis Family News Report: New York!

We have finally reached New York! We have been looking forward to this leg of our trip from the beginning! We have dear friends from our 3 years of living there. Point Lookout is a tiny little beach town on the south shore of Long Island. We attended the small Community Church there and were blessed with the friends the Lord brought to us. Eventually we came to love this place even though it was a hard & lonely place at times.

We moved to Pt. Lookout 13 years ago when Nicolas was just 6 months old. We rented a home that was furnished. We only brought clothes, toys, the crib and our cars with us. Everything else was furnished; furniture, kitchenware, bedding and linens. The only catch was we could only live there from Sept. 15 - June 15. We had to vacate the home during the summer months. So, every June we would pack our suitcases and put the rest of our things in storage and go elsewhere for 3 months. Then come Sept. we'd move back in again. We did this for 3 years. ~ Vasili would stay in various hotels back east during those months, working. And the boys and I would bounce between staying with his parents, my parents and my sister. We rented out our home in San Diego during those years.

The bottom line is this, the Lord poured out His love and mercy upon us during those long and sometimes lonely years in New York! He watched over us and kept us together as a family. And in His perfect timing, He eventually led us back home again to San Diego. To God be the Glory!