done framing

The church is 100% framed. I will be starting to wire it in the morning. If all goes well I hope to be done with wiring on Friday. Amys great uncle Al Marquardt was here last Thursday and Friday to help. He was a huge blessing as my team had very little construction experience. Having a trades person here to help made a huge difference by the end of the week.

So much for a Quiet Week

God continues to work His wonders in providing funds and workers! We thought this last week would be a quiet catch up week with just Nathan working on the church. On Sunday night we received a call at 10:45pm from Mission Match wondering if we could keep a crew of 9 busy for a couple of days. Sure Nathan said, we had prayed for more workers had'nt we? So our team from Tampa arrived Monday at noon and were put to work busting the plumbing trench and building walls. It looked as if material would run out by Tuesday and since the church hasn't closed on the property sale we would also be out of funds. Nathan made the call to Scott Kirby at Mission Match to let him know we were no longer in need of assistance for the rest of the week. We were reminded of the fact that work crewa also came with funds to the projects they worked on. With the extra crew this week and the one coming next week the church would have around $3000 for materials and could we keep the crew the rest of the week, asked Scott. Well, alright then, time to go buy electrical parts to keep the work going. Off to Kenai we went to the supplier in Soldotna. Nathan was blown away by how helpful the saleperson was and yes he knew pastor Mark Milligian and had played softball with other members of the church. oh yeah, and I'll give you the contractors pricing plus we could deliver for no charge (80 miles one way). So of course you can gues by now how much the bill worked out to. Drumroll please...... $2977.26. Amazing God!

the work goes on

As much as we would love to have a work crew going it has been a blessing to have a quiet week at the church project. We all spent some time on Monday helping daddy with cleanup. Our friend Troy from MN is up and is helping Nathan frame Tuesday and Wednesday this week. We take him up to Anchorage on Thursday to fly back and get some stockup shopping done.
Electrical planning is in the works right now and should be one of the main projects when tthe next work crew comes up July 25. You can follow the church blog moosepasscommunitychurch.blogspot.com that Wendy Milligian has created for another perspective on the project.

Family Outing

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After work on Tuesday we took a little trip up to the sea town of Whittier Alaska about 60miles away. To get there if go go through the longest tunnel in North America of 13,000 ft long. The tiny town is located on the Prince William Sound surrounded by Mountains. We had an excellent supper of fresh halibut! Before going home we tackled a short (0.8 mile) hike to Byron glacier to play in the snow. It was really cool- literally and figuratively! Timmy thought it was great fun to throw rocks in the icy waters from the melting snowfields and glaciers up in the mountains.
The halfway point of being gone this summer comes on Thursday for the boys and I. We left six weeks ago and our plane brings us home August 26. Nathan will be driving home a week or two after us with his brother Abe. The time is going fast and it's beautiful and awesome up here but we have been a little homesick.

Future Kitchen

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Week Four

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What a week! The crew from Alabama was awesome. Nathan was pretty tired from keeping 16-18 guys busy all week but they had such willing hearts and worked well together. We have been so blessed to meet so many men and women of God with servants hearts to do whatever needs to be done these past weeks here in Moose Pass. God is going to bring revival here and free people from their bondages of addiction and any other sin holding them back.

The church building is really taking shape with all the framing that was completed. The rooms are taking shape and everyone is getting excited. The space is badly needed since there were 46 souls worshipping in the tiny church on Sunday.

Future Nursery

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Framing week

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Work Crew 2

Church building project is up and running for the week. This team is from Alabama and most of them are from a large church of 2200 people. Nathan is keeping super busy with 16 guys hauling busted concrete floor( a section had sunken over time and needed to be replaced) and framing. A few of them went out fishing at the Russian River tonight.
Being a large group 3 are staying in the church next to us, some are in a camper and the rest are in the apartment of the Pastor Milligians house that Nathan and the Rejoice team worked on last year.

The boys had fun today with Jacob and Andrew Milligian at our house today. Wendy had some time to herself to get caught up at home. The 5 boys and I did some school reading, listened to Adventures in Oddessy and went to the playground. The growing boys devoured 2 bags of popcorn and would have ate a 3rd if I would of had one more.

Celebrating the 4th

We had an awesome time with our friends, Mike and Cayla Boettcher and their 3 little kids this weekend. They took us Anchorage and the volcanoes across the water but unfortunatly it was cool and rainy, again. We rode 4 miles up the rocky shore dodging many large boulders until we found a good spot to make a beach fire. Hot dogs and smores were our late lunch. After lunch we climbed up to the little house attached to a rock and use the outhouse. The kids had tons of fun digging in the rocks and finding really interesting ones. Back at the house for supper we fried Alaskan Halibut! Yum!
Sunday we drove back from Kenai (almost 2 hours) to lead our second night of FPU class and meet the work crew for the week. They don't do fireworks up here- no darkness to do it in.