Spring 2022

 

It has been over a year since I updated this blog. So much has happened since then. Here is a small glimpse of events with us in that time. We continue to practice hospitality and share our lives with this community. 

The pic below is one of the many baby showers we have had over the years. 

The mommy, Kathryn, got to have her mom with us for this shower.

A group of us ladies from the chapel got to experience glass blowing.

In July of 2021, I went to Roseburg to help my dad move into retirement living. His apartment is just down the hall from Ed's parents. This picture is of Ed's parents and my parents. (My mom and dad are divorced but my mom came along to help.) I love this picture. 

Greg and Riley came for several weeks and joined us and a military family on a trip to Yellowstone.

Julie and kids came over at the end of Summer and joined us at Family Bible camp. We had 75+ people at Warm Lake camp on Labor Day Weekend. It was amazing!

Right before camp, we heard that Ed's dad had passed away. The memorial service was in October. This picture below is of the family that was able to attend.

Julie's whole family got to come and join us for Thanksgiving week. 

Aileen (an active duty officer) and I head up the children's church at the chapel. Most of our kids are moving away. Aileen herself is moving away this month.

I put on a mini women's retreat on Ritter Island in March. It was an amazing time of spiritual refreshment and fellowship.

Most of us hiked beautiful Box Canyon. 

Winter 20/21

Below are just some of our get togethers for the season.

1) At the Davis home. 2) Putting together care packages for our deployed airmen.  3) A soak in a local hot spring. 4) A trek to a local landmark. 5) Prayer time for the persecuted church.

"Normal" (not really) Summer and Fall 2020

Ministry continues while we try workarounds to do it. We continued to have Bible studies (smaller ones) and other activities. We still have to wear masks at chapel but the ropes separating us are no longer there.   We were able to have Family Bible Camp Labor Day weekend. It was amazing! Including our volunteers we had 80 people.

Tim Hazelbaker was our speaker. Wow! He really challenged us. We had an amazing children's team led by Tim and Jennifer Wood. Our kitchen crew went above and beyond serving us. 

We are thrilled with how it went and plan to do it again next year.

Two weeks later, we had a women's retreat. We had to change things up until the last minute. We were so glad we had the 12 precious women we had.

We hadn't seen our daughter Julie (and her family) for a year and our son Greg (and his daughter) for two years. We were blessed to get to visit them in October.

We have several small groups that meet here weekly (Sunday, Monday and Thursday evenings). 

This week we will start meeting on Friday nights at the Davis home. We have lots of families and our house is not adequate for children. 

We are grateful we can still do ministry during this time. Thanks for your prayers.

Summer Beginning

We are still restricted in what we can do. We have had a few events here including a co-ed baby shower.







We had a yard sale to raise money for Family Bible Camp.





Because of COVID, we couldn't have our mission wide conference in Wisconsin. We instead met zoom style on the day the conference was to have started. At the end, Dotty Hash (one of our founders) prayed for us. She passed away around a week later. You can see her second row over and third row down. 




We continue to have people here but many are afraid. So, we still feel like we are in a state of limbo.  We are grateful for our supporters and to GOD for his love. This photo is our entryway.




Last Friday night, we said goodbye to one of our favorite guys. He brought a new guy with him. This guy just bought a house about a block from us. I asked him if he needed furniture. We were able to bless him with things he needs for his house.

Half Day of Prayer

On June 6, 12 of us went to Three Island Crossing state park for our half day of prayer.

COVID Season

Last time I updated this blog, I had no idea what was about to happen. Almost all of our plans for March - June changed. 
One thing that did happen was that Ed had shoulder surgery March 20. It went well and he is healing up nicely.


Like many other people, our lives were filled with Zoom and Facebook video calls. 


We even did Easter sunrise service and communion via Zoom.



I also took the unexpected extra time to finish projects I had put off for months (even years!)

March 30, we had a strong earthquake here in Idaho. It shook the house. We had three things fall off our walls. Aftershocks are still occurring. 



Idaho opened up earlier than many other states, so we were able to ease back into having people over in May. We started off in our driveway. The next week we met in the backyard. We were then allowed to have small groups indoors. We are all so happy to be with each other at our house and at the chapel.

In October 1/3 of the base deployed for a 6 month tour which ended up being 8 months. Many of them are back now. Our singles still aren't back yet. The base public affairs posted the picture below of a dear family to us being reunited. I have spent lots of time with the wife. I am so happy for her. I walked with her and her kids a few weeks ago, that is the other picture below.





There is so much more to report but this will do for now.

Beginning 2020

We have had such a mild winter, that I find myself thinking it is ok if we have another snow episode here. Many of you know that I don't much like winter. We had thought we were in for a long, cold winter when it snowed lots in October. 

Snow in October

Wednesday morning study at Kid's Gym on base

Ed was given an award from the base commander and the command chief.

The chapel sponsored a cooking contest for some airmen. I was an advisor/mentor/coach. These were the coaches and facilitators.

This was my team.

We have several of our airmen deployed. Some of us put together care packages for them.

Some of the chapel men braved the cold and went ice fishing. They brought home lots of fish.

We are grateful to God for these opportunities to share Him and His love amongst the military.