Back in Corning, NY

We arrived back in our hometown of Corning on June 14th and got settled into our house for the summer months. We thank all of North Baptist Church for allowing us to stay in, and for wonderfully preparing, the green house across the street from the church.

The kids have enjoyed staying the night at friends houses and getting to know each other again.

Becki and I have been blessed by so many people already. We have had the opportunity to have dinner and fellowship time with friends and our "small group" buddies, along with seeing our families again.

Derek capturing his cousin Josh.

We got to celebrate Josh's birthday!!

I have been working with the youth group for 2 weeks now and have been able to get together with some of them individually to talk. They are a great bunch of youth people! We have TEEN WEEK starting July 23rd, please pray for the teens as they participate in evangelism and outreach, as well as some serious fun.

We are looking forward to having time to meet with many other people over the next 5 weeks or so. We want to share our hearts with as many people as we can while we are home.

Thank you for praying for us as we continue to seek God and His will for our lives.

Movin'...movin'...movin'...

It seems that we do this a little too much lately. We will be doing it again next year too! Saying good bye to our "white house" as Derek calls it, and hello to apartment living has been a challenge to say the least. We moved into a 3 bedroom apartment last Thursday. We have all of our stuff at the school, some of it is in the hallway, some in a classroom, we've realized that it won't all fit. Now it's just a matter of what to do with it!?! The living room is bigger, but the dining room is smaller, the bedrooms are much smaller! We do have a 1/2 bath in our bedroom tho'! YEAH! Over all we have gained a few hundred thousand square feet! The whole school is an extension of our apartment and the backyard is HUGE! The kids are doing great! They have been swimming 2x in our indoor pool, they have made friends with the 3 little girls next door, and we all love being about a 30 second walk away from our new friends the Turners! They have 3 boys, but they share a love for video games. This is the outside of our apartment for now. Hopefully we will find a home for it all. Our door is the 3rd one. The 1st is a men's bathroom which will come in handy for John and Derek. The 2nd one is a "slop room" and then there is ours, surrounded by piles of stuff. There are 2 other apartments in our hall and one men's dorm. The gym is also down at the end on the right, which Derek is a huge fan of, and it's right next to our classroom, so the walk to school in the AM will be much shorter!!!! We are excited to get home and see what God has for us this summer. John will be working with the youth group and doing other things around the church and we will be staying right across the street from church so that will be very convenient. We have about 1 1/2 weeks to get ready to move again, I sure hope we are all settled by then!

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cell 517-416-3832

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