Where did the summer go?

Summer holidays are almost over for me. I go back to work on the 18th but have a meeting on the 15th of AUGUST! We really haven't done a whole lot of anything this summer. We've both been busy working which we finished the painting job on the 24th of July. We had my auntie Dorothy and Uncle Dave come down for the weekend and we showed them alot of country that they probably wouldn't have seen on their own. They just loved the mountains.

This last weekend we played host to quite a few people. Jason had set up a workshop/seminar on worship at our church. So we had his friend Travis and Jenna Vaad and their daughter and son. Scott Macleod and his wife Sarah and son and daughter were staying at a friend's ranch which we so appreciated because it was a last minute change from where they were going to stay. Sarah just couldn't stop raving about the mountains. They were also going to Glacier National Park in Montana which is supposed to be out of this world beautiful. Scott and Sarah have been doing inner city ministry for the last 15 yrs in Nashville. They also run a worship school called Thunder School. check out HarvestSound.com for more on their ministry.

We just had a great time getting to know them, showing them alot of firsts for their family. Jason took their kids on their first horse ride. There's not many horses in the inner city. They were really down to earth people and we've really made a connection with them all. They've invited us down to visit them and their school.

The seminar was really quite powerful. It really made some people stretch their boxes that we so often put God and church into. We need to break out of those confining boxes and let God really work. There was a time of prophetic worship and prophetic words spoken over the few people the came. It was a small group of only 15 or so but God had something to say to everyone present. Jason and I had a lot of words of worship and leading the younger generation into worship and a new sound of music coming forth for this region and maybe even bigger. Sunday service was also very powerful. Our pastor Roger got excited about the change that is coming forth in our church. Our church is not going to be one that people just stay in the four walls but that we are going to be a difference and spread God outside of the building. We don't know what the change will look like but we're tired of the way the "church" of America is. That was kind of the word that Scott felt for our church body. We're excited!

OF course the weekend couldn't go with out a hitch. We were watching our friend's dog Cubby. And wouldn't you know it that the friday night everyone came and we weren't home, that the dog slipped out and ran away. We came home and I was in a panick. We prayed we'd find him, Jason and Travis walked around the street in the dark looking for him and didn't find him. I felt awful and lost a couple hours of sleep and tears. I sure didn't want to lose a friendship over a dog. Thanks be to God, the police picked him up and he was at the pound! So the next day I picked him up and Cubby was sure happy to see me!

My time has ended. Got to go.