Here's Part 6 of the ongoing Cessna 402 project. With the spar straps installed, the guys are getting the engine compartments prepared to set the engines back in place.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Back From Vacation
Well, we're back safe, sound, and refreshed from our week away in southern Ohio. We rested, read, put jigsaw puzzles together, walked, enjoyed each other and talked about how God is working in our lives, marriage, and ministry. Thanks for your prayers.
We thought you might enjoy some photos.
Here's the cabin from above on the driveway.
The cabin from below. Yes that's a hot tub on the deck.
The view from the front window with the fishing pond through the trees.
The first of three puzzles we completed.
The second of the puzzles.
Karen relaxes on the sun porch.
We had a fire to roast hot dogs one night.
Enjoying the fire. Enjoying each other.
We thought you might enjoy some photos.
Here's the cabin from above on the driveway.
The cabin from below. Yes that's a hot tub on the deck.
The view from the front window with the fishing pond through the trees.
The first of three puzzles we completed.
The second of the puzzles.
Karen relaxes on the sun porch.
We had a fire to roast hot dogs one night.
Enjoying the fire. Enjoying each other.Monday, November 15, 2010
Taking A Break
Karen and I will be "unplugged" for the next week at a remote cabin in southern Ohio. Tucker and Tanner are staying behind to watch the house. We're getting away for a time of isolation and rest.
But before we leave, I need to run into MMS for a meeting first thing this morning, and Karen has a dentist appointment. After that we're on the road. Everything's packed (games, jig saw puzzles, snacks, books, food, clothes), we just need to load it all in the car and head south.
We're excited about the trip. It's been quite a while since just the two of us have gone anywhere by ourselves without any ministry commitment to meet, ministry need to fill, or performance expectations to satisfy.
Thanks for your prayers as we rest. Please pray that we'll enjoy each other and that God will take vacation with us, too. We're expecting to meet Him there.
But before we leave, I need to run into MMS for a meeting first thing this morning, and Karen has a dentist appointment. After that we're on the road. Everything's packed (games, jig saw puzzles, snacks, books, food, clothes), we just need to load it all in the car and head south.
We're excited about the trip. It's been quite a while since just the two of us have gone anywhere by ourselves without any ministry commitment to meet, ministry need to fill, or performance expectations to satisfy.
Thanks for your prayers as we rest. Please pray that we'll enjoy each other and that God will take vacation with us, too. We're expecting to meet Him there.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
A Saturday in November & Mission Video
Hello Everyone,
29 degree greetings from Coshocton, Ohio. It seems Saturdays are becoming my day to blog. That's okay.
Home
As this year rapidly draws to a close and Karen and I look ahead, we look to establish some different routines. Over the past year, our ministry to the Fresno Bible Church young adults in leading them through Steve McVey's Grace walk and Andrew Murray's Abiding in Christ, has impacted us deeply, given us new understanding of God and the possibilities in growing to know Him, and opened our eyes and hearts to desire an intimacy with Him we could have never before imagined. We're still trying to grasp it all and are trusting God to incorporate these Scriptural truths into the very essence of our souls. Its so exciting to learn there really IS more to God and faith than the every day grind we'd become so accustomed to and entrenched in.
I could run a list of the books and people The Spirit has used in our lives over the past three years, and is using, to re-shape our faith but now isn't the time. However, I will mention two more books, that are real and vibrant in our lives right now: The Complete Green Letters, by Miles J. Stanford; and Mansions of the Heart, by R. Thomas Ashbrook.
The Mission
Things at MMS are changing, too. The mission is entering its third year of organizational evaluation and reorganization. It has been, and continues to be, an amazing process where God is clearly at work reshaping and refreshing a solid, proven, and well-respected ministry to better meet the needs of a dramatically changing mission environment. This God-process is causing each one of us to dig deep within and determine on the most intimate personal levels whether or not we trust Him enough to handle every little detail of mission administration and operation. I can never get far away from Proverbs 3:5-6. I guess if I have a "life verse" that would be it.
On the technical side at MMS, the guys are tearing into the Arctic Barnabas Navajo. Here's a video I put together to begin documenting the project and a couple snapshots.
A week ago.
As of Thursday.
29 degree greetings from Coshocton, Ohio. It seems Saturdays are becoming my day to blog. That's okay.
Home
As this year rapidly draws to a close and Karen and I look ahead, we look to establish some different routines. Over the past year, our ministry to the Fresno Bible Church young adults in leading them through Steve McVey's Grace walk and Andrew Murray's Abiding in Christ, has impacted us deeply, given us new understanding of God and the possibilities in growing to know Him, and opened our eyes and hearts to desire an intimacy with Him we could have never before imagined. We're still trying to grasp it all and are trusting God to incorporate these Scriptural truths into the very essence of our souls. Its so exciting to learn there really IS more to God and faith than the every day grind we'd become so accustomed to and entrenched in.
I could run a list of the books and people The Spirit has used in our lives over the past three years, and is using, to re-shape our faith but now isn't the time. However, I will mention two more books, that are real and vibrant in our lives right now: The Complete Green Letters, by Miles J. Stanford; and Mansions of the Heart, by R. Thomas Ashbrook.
The Mission
Things at MMS are changing, too. The mission is entering its third year of organizational evaluation and reorganization. It has been, and continues to be, an amazing process where God is clearly at work reshaping and refreshing a solid, proven, and well-respected ministry to better meet the needs of a dramatically changing mission environment. This God-process is causing each one of us to dig deep within and determine on the most intimate personal levels whether or not we trust Him enough to handle every little detail of mission administration and operation. I can never get far away from Proverbs 3:5-6. I guess if I have a "life verse" that would be it.
On the technical side at MMS, the guys are tearing into the Arctic Barnabas Navajo. Here's a video I put together to begin documenting the project and a couple snapshots.
A week ago. 
As of Thursday.
Replacing belly skins on the Navajo
Monday, November 1, 2010
Test Flight of LAMP's Cessna 337
I just finished editing the video of Friday's test flight of LAMP's Cessna 337. The test flight went very well and, as test flights are supposed to do, revealed some minor adjustments which needed to be made before the airplane could return to mission service.
The guys worked late into Saturday evening eliminating the "squawks" enabling the aircraft to return to missionary service Sunday morning. This airplane will soon be back in northern Canada expanding God's Kingdom across four provinces.
Enjoy the video!
The guys worked late into Saturday evening eliminating the "squawks" enabling the aircraft to return to missionary service Sunday morning. This airplane will soon be back in northern Canada expanding God's Kingdom across four provinces.
Enjoy the video!
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