The festivities just continued throughout the week! Tuesday night the Horkavys invited us over to help them trim their tree and decorate for Christmas. It was fantastic! We listened to Nat King Cole sing carols while the ornaments were hung, garlands arranged, lights strung, and the toy train assembled. Afterward we feasted on breakfast–one of… Read More Pie & Praise
Crossroad’s teens have been a joy to work with! We have four 7th-12th graders, a 6th grader and a 5th grader. Stephen has been leading the singing while I’ve been privileged to play the piano. This week I took my autoharp to switch things up. This Monday we delivered Thanksgiving baskets and turkeys to four… Read More Teen Times
Church is the highlight of our week. Church has changed drastically for us since moving to Arizona. Since I myself didn’t have a clear picture of what a Sunday at a small church plant looked like, I thought I’d give you all a glimpse of what we do on Sundays, so you know how to… Read More A Day in the Life of CBC
This is the strangest autumn Stephen and I have had yet. We’re still wearing short sleeves and enjoying weather in the 80s and 90s, and for the first time since preschool, neither of us have to go to school this year! This life of unemployment and perpetual summer is definitely throwing off our internal clocks.… Read More Corn Maze
Last night we had the privilege of participating in Crossroad’s first youth group meeting ever. We are excited to be youth sponsors and work closely with the teens of our church. We had 3 girls and 2 guys, along with parents and sponsors. The youth group will be meeting every other Monday night and having… Read More First CBC Youth Group…Ever!
At first we felt dazed (mostly from the long hours on the bumpy seat of a moving truck) and overwhelmed at the thought that we were in Phoenix…to stay! We are no longer visitors, but residents. (However, we are still living out of suitcases in someone else’s home, so we still feel like visitors in… Read More Life in the Desert
We officially decided late last week that we will be moving to Phoenix in the next month. We’ve agreed to stay in Indiana until September 4th to help get the school year started unless I find a job first, in which case we’d probably head out there sooner. We are excited about the coming move… Read More Phoenix Bound
We’ve been pretty busy since my last post. We arrived in Phoenix severely travel-fatigued on Saturday morning. We got some rest at the Horkavys’ before joining them for a Bible study to finalize their new church constitution that evening. We had a great time with their church family on Sunday. Jeremy Vandelinder, church planter to… Read More Survey Trip Update
Right now we are in the Indianapolis airport getting ready to depart for Phoenix on our survey trip. We had to get up at 3 this morning to make it to the airport on time. We’re supposed to arrive in Phoenix at about 9:30 a.m. local time. We will be spending a couple of days… Read More Southwest Trip 2009