emergency room visit

Leave it to Josh to introduce us to an Alaskan hospital. Somehow he wacked his head hard and split open the skin between his eyes about 2" long while playing at the church. Nathan and I rushed him down the 45min drive to Seward to the emergency room. Wendy watched the other two boys and was kind enough to call ahead for us which is something you apparently have to do before you go in up here. I had banana bread in the oven too so Mark had to come over and get it out.

Plumbing and Permit

The whole family joined in today helping daddy pull plumbing tube all around the church for the hot water baseboard heat. We are now ready for some drywalling which is good because a crew of ten guys are coming monday-wednesday.

Some very exciting news is that the church finally got the permit from the fire marshall. we are now good to go with everything. Thanks be to God. Just in time too. Nathan needs the electrician to approve the electrical before drywalling but after the permit is issued. We can keep moving forward!

Last week of July

Many thanks to the crew from North Dakota that roughed in all the electrical! Can't believe they got it all done. The church building has wires hanging everywhere. Also a big thanks to Mark a electrician from Florida that spends his summers in Alaska and helped plan out the electrical process.

We took a weekwnd vacation down to Homer, 3 hours away, to camp a couple of days. The weather was cool and wet but we had fun and it cleared off enough to see the Pacific Ocean and mountains across the bay. We fried halibut and lingcod over the campfire for our dinner. YUMMY! There was also a Concert on the Lawn going on Saturday and Sunday at the park we camped at so we had free local music. It was actually pretty decent stuff. The entire family enjoyed hiking along the beach of Kachemack Bay at low tide and found some really cool creatures. It was so nice to relax in the midst of our busy mission project.

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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.