By jcrowl | Published:
August 31, 2009
I’m back. Tomorrow is three weeks since my knee replacement surgery. Recovery has been pretty rigorous, with some hilltops and some valleys. Little by little I can assume daily life skills that other folks have been doing for me as I have been working on my recovery. No, my work is not finished, this is [...]
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:
December 1, 2008
ADVENT SCHEDULE
We are officially in Advent. Forget the wrapping paper that has been in the stores for weeks, or the Christmas Music that has been coming out of the store sound systems for many days. Now we can have the great anticipation of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As the song [...]
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:
June 26, 2008
I can’t believe that we have been so busy with the ICRC Mission Team this week that I have only had the energy to come home and prepare for the next day. It has definitely been a productive, learning and growing week for all. And, I praise God for that. Today they will finish up [...]
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 [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
April 29, 2008
It’s sunny out and the snow from a few days ago has melted — Praise the Lord! On Sunday I jokingly said to the guys in the band when we were out at Bay Side Village in L’Anse that “April was going out like a Lion” — hmmm? Something is wrong with that [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
February 16, 2008
Today is a great day. This the day The Lord has made and we will be rejoice and be glad in it.
I have been in contact with our mission partners for summer 2008. They will be joining us in June and July when it will be warm (as today it is not [...]
By jcrowl | Published:
November 11, 2007
Why does it seem lately that I start every post with “it’s been a while since the last post.” Because that is indeed the fact. More about that later in this post.
On Friday Dan helped me take the Band collection jar to the bank. It contained donations from all sorts of people [...]