the chapel gets a new deck

we kept seeing this bear at the dump

its been along time,eh?

My how time flies..I have been going to update this thing all summer as you can tell it didn't happen. It has been a strange year, with lots of cancellations. Never less we still are quite busy. Sarah (our youngest) was gone to stay with sisters in Oregon all summer so that left Marvin and I here alone. I honestly can't say alone because we might have had 5 nights the whole summer that we were the only ones in the camp. Since it rained all summer it meant that I had to mow yard every week. It takes 8-10 hours to mow the whole yard. Marvin was busy building cabinets in the shop, it is really looking good in there, of course you all wouldn't know that because I haven't posted any pictures. My excuse; we had our camera stolen and our hard drive crashed. We now have a new one so I will try and do better. It has been a beautiful fall, the bad thing is the mosquitoes are awful. We picked lots of blueberries they are everywhere. We got 6 gallons just picking along our drive. Marvin started cutting firewood Tuesday, it would be nice to have 6 or 7 men cutting, de -limbing, dragging, loading, unloading but he is doing it alone. we should get some help next month, yeah!

We are on the home stretch! PTL

the outside is pretty much finished and the inside needs the trim finished, workbenches, shelving and tools which we have everywhere and are so ready to put it into the shop! Praise the Lord for all the help also for health to get it done!

finishing up the shop

Here we are puting the primer on the walls. the tan colour you see behind Marvin is the colour of the top coat. We finished the top coat on Friday. Marvin needs to put up the trim. I will put another picture up when the trim is finished.

New toy, I mean tool

Landmark Christian Fellowship came and helped us cut firewood. With the use of the above grapple they got the rest of our firewood cut. (60 cords all together) Praise the Lord! now its back to working on the shop, plowing snow, fixing the generators and feeding the fires.

October 1, update

This noon as I talked with a mother who has lost 7 children, five which were to suicide, I wondered how a heart can handle such grief. Yesterday there was another suicide which brought back feelings of pain and sadness to this mother. How do I assure her that He is our comfort, our hope? Again and again I am reminded to comfort those who morn, rejoice with those who rejoice. As I wrote in the last update things are slowly getting done on the shop. Last week we had two guys from Red Lake come and help us. They got the electrical roughed in, insulated the walls and put up the ceiling. Then on Friday they cut about 4 cords of firewood with 55 more cords to go! We also reroofed cabin 3.

This week we have a couple from Germany here for 2 days helping. They helped insulate the attic, put OSB sheeting up on the walls. We also cleaned a couple cabins. We pray that they saw Jesus in us as we relate to them. Pikangikum has closed school for 2 weeks for moose break so we have had hunters stopping by quite a bit.

We were telling people that called for counselling that we weren’t taking anyone until Oct. Well October is here and we still feel like there is so much work to do. In spite of that we have a young girl coming from a reserve northof us on the 15th. Pray with us that there will be healing of past hurts and forgiveness. Pray for us also as we relate to her and open our home to her. The first week of November we have a family scheduled also. Oct 7 -11 Marvin and I along with 10 people from Pikang ikum are attending a healing conference in Minnesota.