Sheesh ... it's been a while ... it's not that nothing's been happening ... it's that SO MUCH has been happening ... we ended up handing out over 220 backpacks. God supplied. And we will be able to send backpacks to several families in Mexico, through workers that are returning here in the next few days. Leslie found school supplies on clearance at Target for INCREDIBLE prices, and was able to stock us up on notebooks and rulers and a bunch of other stuff.

Sayde is doing well --- her arm was almost sliced off in a de-barking machine at he wood mill where she works. she's still in the hospital ... the kids are doing great in school... REALLY good. Caleb ran/jogged the fastest mile in the entire elementary school -- 8 minutes and 26 seconds ... he decided that, although he COULD, he didn't WANT to slow to a walk at any point in the test ... and when the PE teacher told him what his time was at the beginning of his last time around the track, he took off running and didn't stop until he finished. Even the PE teacher was astounded. He said that 8:26 is unheard of for a fourth grader.

cool. :-)

Hannah turned 12 last Monday. We're hoping and planning on getting out of town for a couple of days beginning Thursday -- coming back on Saturday evening. We have a guest speaker coming next Sunday, a former Pastor, so i won't have to prepare a message for Sunday morning. :-)

I volunteered to be on an associational steering committee to come up with recommendations to bring to the association as a whole on what to do with Kirkland Grove campground. It was used for evangelistic camp meetings back in the last decade of the 19th century and the first 4 decades or so of the 20th. It is a beautiful, historic landmark ... but it is begging to be put to use -- we just need to decide HOW, or do something WITH it.
Otherwise, things are going well. Pretty much.