October Fun

We always have fun while celebrating special events
or serving others. Last night we enjoyed celebrating
Melinda's birthday with a delicious cake and ice cream!
Check out a couple of pictures of our birthday girl!

 Melinda decided to give us a spelling test!

Though, I don't think Melinda liked her Birthday hat,
she was a good sport and kept it on until I got
proof that she actually wore it!

 After enjoying Melinda's birthday celebration, we started
packing shoe boxes. It's time again for Operation Christmas
Child and we love working on this service/mission project as a team!

The advance preparation helps make things
move along smoothly and the packing great fun!

Karen was tired after a tough week at work but
certainly got her second wind while thinking about
the kids who would be blessed because of the shoe box
gift.

Our guys always step up and help where ever and
when ever needed and really do a great job too!

Once the boxes were filled , we were back
to our Crazy Love study!

We love our Friday 'mental health' night!
Visit us again soon!

The In Line With the Word team

A Helping Hand

Excitement grows as the transformation of the class-
rooms off of our church fellowship hall continues!

Last week we began our work in a room that is
shared by young and old alike. It's a small room that
needed  to have lots less furniture and a bit of organization.
In just a few hours we managed to accomplish a great deal.
Though we haven't yet painted this room, check out
our progress for yourself.

 Our goal is to help get all of the classrooms done
in the next few months! Check back with us again soon
for more exciting transformations!

We're serving In Line With The Word!

Kids Suite Part 2

Sorry for the delay in posting about the transformation of the kids suite at church. Sally and I were anxious to get the other half of the suite completed but we knew we needed help.  Brian was on vacation so we recruited him to help with the room.  Charlie is always a willing participant as well.  We are blessed to have husbands with such servant hearts!

Finished Project

Loving the color!

And this is the work crew that spent hours removing furniture, cleaning baseboard, washing walls, patching holes, painting the walls, framing pictures, and staging the room.

Sally patching the walls

Brian working hard on vacation

Charlie is such a big help!

...and if you haven't figured it out....I know to take the pictures...then I don't have to be in the posts!!!

Don't tell the guys, but we have plans to re-do EVERY room downstairs.

As we serve...we remain

In Line With The Word

CH...CH...CH...CHANGES

These piggy toes are T.I.R.E.D.!!!  Not to mention the rest of the body attached to the foot and the rest of the piggy toes involved in this project!!

Our church is going through an amazing transformation under our new Lead Pastor, Paul Martin. Starting today we changed the format for Kid's World. The kiddos are being checked in directly to Kid's World and have their own worship service, large group teaching and small group sessions.  It was wonderful and the little ones seemed to really embrace the changes.

This change involved creating a "4-5 Year Old Suite".  Sally, Charlie, Jay and Laurie worked diligently this past week to get this suite ready for Sunday.

 We removed stickers off the walls...

 Moved file cabinets from room to room.  Our new best friend is "Dolly"!

 Jay prepped the walls for paint....

 Oh my....we sure collect a lot of belongings in our rooms....

 I thought Sally was sleeping on the job...but she was scrubbing the baseboard.  Our other best friend is "Magic Sponges"

 Charlie showed up to help paint and do whatever we asked.

 Thank you Jay for spending two days painting the room for us....you're the BEST!!

 We scrubbed all the wooden chairs..

Then they got a couple coats of polyurethane....now they are looking brand new! 

 Jay thought we got breaks....hahahahahahahaha!!! He must be union!

 We even framed all our posters...no more tape on our walls!!

 The Rainbows have a new bulletin board ready to go...

 We cleaned up the second room of the suite until we can paint it....

After two exhausting days...it's starting to look A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

The kiddos loved their new suite today....

Room #1 of the "Suite" finished!!!

Stay Tunes for Part 2 of the Suite

Our Excellent Adventure!

We're excited about our next study 'Crazy Love' by Francis Chan
but since the DVD Resource Guide hasn't arrived, we decided to
enjoy a 'play date' together. We met at Mulligan's in Sterling for
some fun! It was a tense competition between the gals and the guys!

Just kidding! We girls don't keep score and since we're quite
creative in our techniques, there is no pressure!

As always, we did run into a few obstacles. Not to
worry, they didn't slow us down or have any impact
on our scores!

Every once in a while, I enjoyed a great hole!

Check out why I'm excited....

While the girls bonded...

 the guys competed!

Even though they kept score, they had lots of fun. Check
out best pals Jay & Mike!

After a nail biting contest, we headed out on the next leg
of our adventure. Jay and Melinda took us on a scenic
ride through the country back roads to Rota-Spring Ice Cream!

Once we were full with the delicious home made ice cream,
we ventured out back for a real treat! The last little guy is my
favorite!