As people have learned we’re moving to Colorado they’ve naturally asked what has motivated this decision.
Rather than explain it as many times as I’m asked I thought I’d write this, which may (or may not) help people understand.
I’d like to first explain that our motivation is not in a normal money, job kind of move that is typical in many moving situations.
And, as is often the theme of this site, it is rooted in our faith in Jesus Christ.

We moved to Texas so that we could grow spiritually and learn God’s Word in seminary.
The thing that motivated us then is the same thing now.
We want to do what is best for our family in respect to our development as Christians.
This is not popular and may lend some to think, “Religious nuts.”
Maybe nuts, but hopefully not too religious 😉

The church, Holly Hills Bible Church”, is an incredible church where like minded brothers and sisters gather together.
We have not been able to find a church that is near our house in Texas that we agree with doctrinally (in layman’s terms we disagree with the way they teach the Bible, or apply the principles, even if their doctrinal statement looks good on paper), and that has been hard.
It has been like a spiritual drought for over two years.
There are good churches in some parts of the metroplex, but there is also a second reason: family.

Family is tough for us, since we’ve had Abigail it has been a lot harder to go visit family, as well as being more expensive to do so.
By moving to Denver we’ll remove one long travel to see grandparents and have a good church home.
On top of that Frontier Airlines runs really good specials for round trip tickets so we’ll most likely be able to visit the other grandparents and aunts and uncles more often.
These two reasons are the major parts of our decision.

This may or may not make sense to all and I do welcome questions, but I do hope that this helps fill in some of the details.

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman