Hospitality

"Practice hospitality" - Romans 12:13b

For the past two summers (2005, 2006) we hosted a short-term (4 months and 1 month) international exchange student. While we found it quite enjoyable, we didn't sign up to participate in the program again this year. Thinking about it, one reason (though not the only) is because, as our family grows, our house seems to be growing smaller, making it more difficult to imagine adding another resident, and committing a bedroom for that purpose.

One thing we'd like to do is to be able to practice hospitality as the verse states above. We'd like to be able to host a short- or long-term exchange student. We'd like to be able to more comfortably host parents, in-laws, or foreign or domestic travelers for some period of time. Of course, we can still do that now to some degree, but not to the extent that such visitors deserve.

So, this raises the question, should we get a new house? Would you be more likely to stay here overnight if we had more space?

And, the $100,000 question: Does anyone have an extra $100,000 or so laying around that we can use for such an upgrade?