Another week has gone by since spring break, Leslie has gotten back to work and the sun came out for a couple days. It is currently snowing on April 4th!
Over the last few weeks God has begun to reveal to us more people who are like minded in creating a retreat for Pastors. Our hope is at some point to meet with some of these people to pray together and brainstorm ideas.
Currently Matthew and I are praying about begining by doing a mini retreat for ministry workers. We have found some cabins in the area that are not used year round and we want to try to coordinate some of this off time and send ministry couples away or a weekend or two. Our goal for this first step towards the retreat center would be to provide all the meals, desserts and drinks and do all the clean up after the weekend. We hope that by figuring out a system here we will do better when we have a center of our own.
We are looking for a way to keep you all updated on our prayer requests. Currently we would ask that you pray for guidance, provision and that God would bring the people into our lives that He would want to be a part of this.
Friday, April 04, 2008
We have had a great time this last week. Leslie was on Spring break and was able to hang out with friends and have a great time just catching up over coffee. She spent most of the day Friday working with the Equine club members as she fills in for the instructor who is on Maternal leave.
This weekend we roped a few friends into helping us with a ponderous project at our house in Corvallis. We have been trying to fix it up to sell for the last few months and have had trouble trying to paint it. We have had two painters unable to finish the job because of weather and that has pushed back our other projects. So this weekend we decided that we were just going to push through even though the paint was not done.
I was so excited to go that I actually woke up at 3:00 am on Saturday morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. We had asked our friends to be at the apartment at 6:00 am (I know, we’re crazy) and so we got out of bed at 5:00 and got doughnuts for everyone and were on the road at 6:20. Alex, Jenni, Leslie and I drove over together and Seth met us in Corvallis. It was a beautiful drive with fresh snow, the sunrise over the mountains and a beautiful river to follow for most of the dive.
When we arrived we broke up into teams and attacked the gardens and out side for the majority of the day with Seth working on trimming out the house. All the old junk that had been sitting in the shed for the past three owners (more the a decade) was removed and taken to the dump. To give you an idea of how much junk had accumulated in this shed, this was our second trip to the landfill and we deposited more then 3000 lbs. In addition we found 6 gallons of used antifreeze, 10 gallons of old paint, 10 quarts of used motor oil, 1 gallon of paint thinner, and a can of neon green spray paint. All of these last items we are having to find alternate ways of dealing with because they are all toxic.
On the way do the dump we got an impromptu lesson in air dynamics as a tarp we were using to keep everything down caught the wind and lifted the 50 lbs cinder block out of the trailer and threw it at the car behind us. Luckily our tarp has terrible aim and missed the car but the chunks that came of the block after it hit the ground also went in to the oncoming lane and it took 15 minutes to clean it all up.
We all made it through the day fairly unscathed and slept well that night.
This weekend we roped a few friends into helping us with a ponderous project at our house in Corvallis. We have been trying to fix it up to sell for the last few months and have had trouble trying to paint it. We have had two painters unable to finish the job because of weather and that has pushed back our other projects. So this weekend we decided that we were just going to push through even though the paint was not done.
I was so excited to go that I actually woke up at 3:00 am on Saturday morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. We had asked our friends to be at the apartment at 6:00 am (I know, we’re crazy) and so we got out of bed at 5:00 and got doughnuts for everyone and were on the road at 6:20. Alex, Jenni, Leslie and I drove over together and Seth met us in Corvallis. It was a beautiful drive with fresh snow, the sunrise over the mountains and a beautiful river to follow for most of the dive.
When we arrived we broke up into teams and attacked the gardens and out side for the majority of the day with Seth working on trimming out the house. All the old junk that had been sitting in the shed for the past three owners (more the a decade) was removed and taken to the dump. To give you an idea of how much junk had accumulated in this shed, this was our second trip to the landfill and we deposited more then 3000 lbs. In addition we found 6 gallons of used antifreeze, 10 gallons of old paint, 10 quarts of used motor oil, 1 gallon of paint thinner, and a can of neon green spray paint. All of these last items we are having to find alternate ways of dealing with because they are all toxic.
On the way do the dump we got an impromptu lesson in air dynamics as a tarp we were using to keep everything down caught the wind and lifted the 50 lbs cinder block out of the trailer and threw it at the car behind us. Luckily our tarp has terrible aim and missed the car but the chunks that came of the block after it hit the ground also went in to the oncoming lane and it took 15 minutes to clean it all up.
We all made it through the day fairly unscathed and slept well that night.
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