Every year at Thanksgiving, all of Scott's siblings, their spouses, children and dogs get together for the long weekend. That's a lot of people, so we've celebrated Thanksgiving together at Boy Scout Camps, State Parks, Chrissy's house...but this year we were having trouble finding accommodations. So we prayed about it, we know we need to move into our house soon, so we are having Thanksgiving 2007 at 216 South Forest Street. It will be rustic with unfinished sheetrock walls, no trim, etc., but not a whole lot more rustic than the camps at which we've stayed.
SO, we made a list of small projects that have to happen between now and then so we'll have the necessities such as toilets, showers, a functioning kitchen, clean (albeit rustic) rooms in which to sleep, eat and hang out. We also realize that momentum is built when we take a moment to acknowledge what we've accomplished whilst looking toward what's next on the list. So, we're going to try to keep posting it here so you can join us on the 28 day journey...
Things we crossed off the LIST on 10/22/07:
Upstairs bath: install valves on feeds for toilet & sink, install toilet flange
Kitchen: installed prep sink valves and faucet, strainer in sink
Downstairs bath: installed valve on cold water feed for sink
Spare bedroom: organized boxes, moved stuff from master bedroom to spare bedroom
Painted hot water heater mounting board
And we'll continue to pray that God orders our steps and guides us through this process so we do what needs to be done as it needs to be done, that he sends us whatever help we'll need, and that we won't burn out in the process. :) It's all good!
Give your marriage a tune up!
Let us tell you all about Weekend to Remember! We've been twice- the first time was in 2005, two months after we divorced on our 14th wedding anniversary... God placed that conference in our path to give us the tools to tear down the walls of isolation we'd unknowingly built in our marriage. He used that conference to restore our relationship, our marriage and our lives.
We made a commitment to go to the conference every year or so and attended again in 2007. God's Word is alive, and we came away learning so much more about how God designed marriage, how He created us for each other and how He uses what we perceive as weaknesses to strengthen each other and grow in Him.
The Weekend to Remember is a great multipurpose tool- it is a how to be married guide for engaged and newly married couples, a restoration tool for broken marriages, a maintenance tool for great marriages and a springboard to the next level for good marriages. The presenters are so human, so easy to relate to, so easy to listen to and learn from.
After we attended the conference last fall, God pressed on our hearts to volunteer for FamilyLife, so we are working at the Raleigh weekend this year. Scott is a group coach and I'm on the prayer team. We'll be there at the conference, serving in whatever way God needs us to serve.
CALL 1-800-358-6329 to register for the weekend so you can use our group code to get an $80 discount on the conference registration, you have to register over the phone in order to get the group rate. Our group code is 16418. The group rate is $178/couple.
Are you military?? If so, the military discount rate is $138/couple- you can register for this discount online- use the code FREEDOM in the key code area.
To learn more, call or email us today!!!
We made a commitment to go to the conference every year or so and attended again in 2007. God's Word is alive, and we came away learning so much more about how God designed marriage, how He created us for each other and how He uses what we perceive as weaknesses to strengthen each other and grow in Him.
The Weekend to Remember is a great multipurpose tool- it is a how to be married guide for engaged and newly married couples, a restoration tool for broken marriages, a maintenance tool for great marriages and a springboard to the next level for good marriages. The presenters are so human, so easy to relate to, so easy to listen to and learn from.
After we attended the conference last fall, God pressed on our hearts to volunteer for FamilyLife, so we are working at the Raleigh weekend this year. Scott is a group coach and I'm on the prayer team. We'll be there at the conference, serving in whatever way God needs us to serve.
CALL 1-800-358-6329 to register for the weekend so you can use our group code to get an $80 discount on the conference registration, you have to register over the phone in order to get the group rate. Our group code is 16418. The group rate is $178/couple.
Are you military?? If so, the military discount rate is $138/couple- you can register for this discount online- use the code FREEDOM in the key code area.
To learn more, call or email us today!!!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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