Surprise

The big project this week was on the back of the house, the sun room. We hope to eventually put siding on it but for now we were going to paint it. We noticed a board that was rotten so we pulled it off to replace it - we were told later never to do that just cover it!:) When we pulled it off we saw that water had gotten in there over the years and most of the wall had rotted. When Ken was done removing the rotten wood the neighbor wandered over and looked at windows hanging practically in mid-air. He was a little worried about what was going to happen. But, before the night was over Ken had the wall rebuilt. Today he spent probably 7 hours caulking the windows etc. so the new wood won't rot. We hope to be able to paint it early next week.

Last night we helped the Taylors take a load from their Medina house to their Cleveland house. It was a late night but it is great to be working together as a team even on projects like moving. We were supposed to have been in Michigan for a mission's conference this weekend but the church had a split recently and cancelled the conference. Ken will go next week to Michigan for two other mission's conferences, the kids and I will keep the school routine going during the week and go up for the weekend.

After these long meetings Ken hopes to start his part-time job. This will supplement our income until we raise about 20% more support. He also likes to be able to meet people and learn about this new-to-us territory. We are feeling more and more settled each day. Hopefully soon all of our waking hours will not be consumed by construction projects and we will be able to start meeting people. The basement is the last big project that we hope to do before October. It has been neat to see God help us with either providing people, supplies, furnishings, or wisdom to do all of these projects. We are so grateful.

Please pray for Derek. This past week he cried in Sunday School at Grace so the teacher came to get me. On Monday, the school nurse called and said that Derek was crying and complaining of a stomachache and had a slight fever. I brought him home for the day and had him rest. The next two days he cried most of the day. His teacher - who looks alot like Julie Sheridan - does a great job keeping me aware of how he's doing. She said that Friday went much better. I think that being back at Grace last Sunday was pretty hard for him to digest. I believe that he'll do fine and make good friends here. We were just so spoiled to have so many great friends in Cedarville.