By jcrowl | Published:
August 4, 2009
The Lord of Life team has just finished lunch they are back to work. One side of the original structure is almost sided! Drywall is being sanded and walls prepared for priming. Oh how exciting. And the heating system has been adapted for the addition — yahoo! The family is now ready for winter — [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
May 14, 2009
To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.
By jcrowl | Published:
March 4, 2009
While the winter weather continues our thoughts and plans for the summer are well underway. I have been talking to several groups who are interested in joining us to work on the Liberty St. Project & more.
Before we know it we will be on mission to the Eastern UP. We are recruiting team members [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
December 30, 2008
On this day we are sitting at the end of this year — one more day to go — and ready to welcome 2009. I have been spending time with my photos and reliving so many of the activities we undertook. Looking back I am overwhelmed by the generosity of folks, the joy of [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
November 27, 2008
It is Thanksgiving — the American Day of gratitude. If we have gratitude in our life the hills and the valleys of “life on life’s terms” even out. It is amazing. It is our great God, the Three-in-one, to whom we give thanks on this day. Whatever is going on in our lives we should [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
October 2, 2008
It has been awhile. And while often it is my procrastination that is the reason that the blog is not up to date, it has been computer issues that have prevented a listing. We’re back. Thanks to Geof Crowl for first getting the computer server up and then the blog operating.
Annual Board Meeting
The Amazing Grace [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
August 16, 2008
To everything there is a season. And right now for some of us it to rest and heal. For projects to move slowly.
Pastor Tom Anderson, who is a board member and our spiritual director, has been recovering from a peripheral aneurysm behind his knee. A fearful thing as he could have lost his leg and [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
August 2, 2008
What can I say? Things are finally slowing down and I am here at the keyboard ready to connect with you all once again about AGMK and our activities. What a busy summer this has been! Wonderful and yet sad, too.
I am so very grateful to some very special people: The God’s Country Cooperative Parish team from the [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
June 16, 2008
What a week. A beautiful week — despite the damp and chilly weather.
The God’s Country Cooperative Parish Team (GCCP) arrived Monday June 9th around lunch time. I hooked up with a part of the group at Subway in Houghton. It was fun to get to know one another. Then they followed [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
June 8, 2008
The blog fast is over — but it really wasn’t a blog fast. No, I was participating in the renovation of the Fellowship Hall at Grace United Methodist Church in Houghton, MI — our home church. The effort to enter onto the blog was more than I could muster! But today [...]