Saturday, August 30, 2008

Busy, Busy, Busy!


The last 6 weeks have been crazy! We started out in the middle of July with Ironman. We had several mission teams (including Rolling Hills) here and it was quite a job to juggle all of our duties. In the past when we have come up here, our total focus has been on the mission trip, but with our kids and church family here it was interesting.

After everyone left I had a surprise party for Jeff (40 years old) and began finishing up our plans for Vacation Bible Camp. We call it camp because it is more of a day camp as it runs from 9:00-3:00. It is a long day! The pastor's wife and I directed and we got a very late start. I told Kim that we needed to write a book. We had everything happen from people calling the week before to say that they couldn't do music to people calling the week of to say they couldn't come to lead their group to station leaders calling at 9:15 to say that they had overslept to helpers leaving because of back pain. It was quite a week! The cool thing about it is that every time we had a problem, God came through. He more than supplied our needs. I kept saying "Well, at least no one has gotten hurt". That was until Thursday afternoon. We were headed down the sidewalk on a hike when a Russian student here for the summer came flying down the sidewalk and hit one of our leaders and then one of our kids. The biker fell into the street. We had 2 ambulances there and it was quite a scene. All 3 people involved are fine- our worker didn't have to go to the hospital, our camper went and was quickly released (she was at VBC the next day) and miraculously, the biker survived. She was life flighted to Burlington, VT. in critical condition, but came home after 5 days. The doctor said she was lucky- we know prayer works.

Three days after VBC my parents came up for the first time. We had a great visit and got to do a lot of things that we haven't been able to do before. We did a lot of history things and Olympic sports things. The village that we live in has a neat history as it was a tuberculosis cure village in the early 1900's (lots of famous people came for "the cure")and of course Lake Placid has all of the Olympic things. In addition to that it is beautiful up here. Just riding around is enjoyable. They left on Wednesday and now we are getting the kids ready to start school this coming Wednesday.

It has been a great 6 weeks, but I am looking forward to a little down time.

The picture is a view of Saranac Lake from the top of Baker Mountain. It is hard to see- sorry.

Friday, August 1, 2008

It has been forever since I posted. If you are reading this, post a comment so that I know you are out there.

Since it is August I will give you a quick update. We did make it here at the end of February. It took a while to get settled in our new house, but here we are. The house is great (Jeff picked it out alone)! It is about 50 yards from the school that all 3 boys go to. They had a great, but long, finish to their year. They attended school for 10 and a half months. They adjusted well to their classes and no one stuck their tongue to a flag pole (we prepared by watching A Christmas Story). We enjoyed about a month of cold and snow and then it warmed up pretty quickly. We experienced some new bugs and lots of mud, but it is beautiful up here. Everywhere we go there are mountains and lakes and rivers. Jeff is fishing all the time. Today the temperatures were in the low 70's.

Jeff's ministries are going well and we are very busy. Last month we had Ironman and now are preparing for Vacation Bible Camp. God is good and has made our transition smooth.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

We are Back!

Hi everyone, An update is long overdue. Our computer was broken for several weeks, so I couldn't access our blog. We have seen a lot of miracles since November. Jeff headed for LP on Dec. 31 and made it safely. Soon after he left, we got a contract on our house. He came home on Jan. 27 to close. We had a hard time finding a house in NY, but finally got a great deal. We close on that house Feb. 29, so Jeff will fly back to get us to leave Feb. 25. Our buyers are letting us rent back from them until then. God has made a way at every turn in our move.

Things are going great for Jeff in the North Country. The college and international ministries are going well and he is already seeing growth. He has had several opportunities to share the Gospel and we pray for a great harvest.

Please pray for our final arrangements with our house in LP, for our transition, and for the ministries at Lake Placid Baptist. Thank you for your prayers.