We are rejoicing for the plentiful rain we received on Thursday! What little rain we have received in recent weeks has only been enough to moisten the surface while the subsoil remained dry as dust. This time it rained heavily at times and softly at times over a long period, allowing the water to soak […]
Archive | 2010
Operation Preparation!
It was a good feeling to move into our new offices and have a couple weeks to pull together the details of starting a new session. It’s pure joy to work with this incredible team! Our days began with prayer and were filled with all kinds of projects. I learned so much! Revising paperwork taught me […]
Number Eighteen . . .
Congratulations Bates Family!
Need Water!
Things have been getting terribly dry around here, the grass getting browner and browner, crunching under foot. Goldenrod and asters are just about to come into full bloom with not enough moisture in the soil to supply the nectar that the honeybees need so badly. We’ve been watering some younger, less established trees in the […]
A Ministry of Art
Last weekend, Robert, Daniel and I had the incredible opportunity to learn a very unique skill under the tutorship of one of the worlds leading chalk artist, Matt Bowman. Up until about 10 years ago, chalk drawing was a dying art, but through the diligent efforts of Eternity Arts, this very effective means of communication […]
Children’s Program a Success!
There was a marriage conference held here at the Training Center and so I volunteered to help the Gomez family run the children’s program. A few days before the conference, we got word that there were only five children signed up for the program and one was a baby. So Brianna and I prayed asking […]
Beauty for Ashes
Have you ever seen a spruce tree with white flowers??? Thankfully, this single tree (other than some deer that were lost) is one of the only things on the farm that suffered long-term damage from the “long winter”. We didn’t weed-whack around it for a while and the Lord “made it beautiful in His time”. […]
An Unexpected Blessing
One day the phone rang. It was Aunt Judy calling all the way from eastern Pennsylvania. She had found an art store that was going out of business there and giving away their extra matt board. Knowing that we were starting an art business, she wondered if we could take it. Of course we were […]
40 Days
Forty days of prayer for our nation will begin today, September 1. Consider seeking the Lord whole-heartedly: praying, asking Him for a Scripture verse that would address America’s situation, and, most of all, looking for what the Lord would have you do to be a part its revitalization. Proverbs 1 or Psalms 1 would be […]
Minnesota Retreat!
Earlier this month I joined the Christiansen’s, Gomezes and Julie for a relaxing staff retreat in the beautiful countryside of MN. I’d never been there before and enjoyed my stay immensely! We had a grand celebration for Norm and Marlys’s 40th wedding anniversary, went hiking at national parks, boated down the St. Croix river that […]