DeArmey and our house

you're probably wondering about the title of this post. "what's the connection between Larry and Vicki and the hocking's house?" you ask yourself. Not much. I just had a picture of the DeArmey's, and wanted to give a prayer request about our house. So not much connection at all. Actually, one time Larry was IN our house, and our cat scratched him and drew blood... but that's about the best connection I can come up with.

Anyway, please be praying for us, as we try to get a construction loan to fix the stucco on our house. We've been working on it for a few months, and have hit every snag imaginable. We rent out our house when we're in France, and we really need to get the stucco replaced before we leave, and it's just causing a lot of stress. Our first attempt at a loan just completely fell through, so we're changing some stuff, and re-submitting an application to another bank.

And since Vicki was the first person to make a comment about the picture of Hobie, I decided I'd put up a cute picture of the DeArmey's.

Chicago

Yesterday we drove up to Chicago with our friend Chris Zeager, to pick up his wife from the airport. They used to live in Chicago, so after we picked up Melissa, they gave us a quick tour of the city, showing us a few places where we'd probably enjoy poking around the next time we visit. Usually, we've always just ended up on Michigan ave, which we're pretty familiar with at this point, and the museums. We actually ended up on Michigan ave this time too, but I had never gone to see the giant bean sculpture thing up-close before. It's really reflective, and kinda crazy. I actually almost started feeling sick when I walked under it and looked up, it's kinda weird. It's called the "Cloud Gate" - cost $23 million, and was constructed betwen 2002 - 2006. That's a lot of money. It could have supplied our entire support at the Château for 270 years. Or purchased about 150 homes in Winona Lake. Or drilled new wells for 1,500 villages in the C.A.R. Hope it was worth it. Here are a few pics from Michigan Ave:






And here's a picture, also on Michigan Ave, of a corn hole competition area. And I thought it was just a small town phenomenon. If like me, you hadn't heard of corn hole before this spring, here's a link for you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_hole

Testing video

I've been having fun looking through the GBIM photo archives - thought I'd share a few (don't worry, there are some good ones of the Hocking family in here as well, I'll get to those). Hobie, you looked as good back then as you do now!

Back from Iowa

Trip to Iowa went well - we had a good time with Sid and Anna, our friends at the Waterloo church. We shared in the morning service about the Château, and were surprised by how many people had been there. They were very supportive, and we really enjoyed our time there. We have a few new prayer partners as a result of that trip, and hopefully we'll partner with the church officially in the near future.

Sid Danforth is working on getting some type of flying license, he has his private license. I don't know how all that works, but what I DO know, is that he's going to fly out here with Anna to visit us (and Jordan and Tirza Cone, who are also friends of theirs) next weekend - so that should be fun.

In other news, the Lititz PA church is now supporting us as well! This brings our support level up to 37%. Thanks for all of your prayers regarding our church visits lately, we've needed them.