Dear Restoration Church Family,

As we reflect upon our time at Restoration Church, the relationships we treasure, and, most importantly, the impact this church has had on our spiritual lives, we cannot help but strongly desire to be with you once more. We cannot imagine what our lives would be like had we not been brought to Restoration. You never cease to live out a Gospel centered love and care for one another. We are thankful that we had the opportunity to live life together with you through service opportunities, community groups, and other family gatherings. We cannot express the level of gratitude we have for you as you have been with our family through a multitude of formative moments- from our coming to faith to the birth of our first child, you have been a true family to us. Living life with you has taught us much, and you will always remain in a special place in our hearts.

We have been blessed here in the NW Suburbs of Chicago with an opportunity to attend a strong, Bible teaching, Gospel centered church called Embassy Church. It is a small church plant that is about 9 months old and about 30 members strong (not much different from Restoration when we first started coming). Over the last few months, we believe that this is the church home in which God wants us at this time. We have pursued the membership process not long ago, and were very recently voted in as members of Embassy. It is with a flurry of bittersweet emotions that we submit our resignation of membership at Restoration Church as we engage in the next chapter of life at Embassy.

Would you please pray that we can continue to find ways to serve in the church? Summer has been slow with regard to service opportunities, and we desire to be as involved, if not more so, than we previously were at Restoration. Also, Embassy does not have a community group structure at this point in time, and getting discipleship/ one on one relationships going is a bit challenging due to the schedules and geographic distance between church members(things are not quite as compact as in DC). Please pray that we would be able to engage our new brothers and sisters in meaningful conversations to help them grow and encourage them as they walk with Christ.

We are praying for you, we love you, we are grateful for you, and we hope you will stay in touch,

A, I, (and L)