Faith Mission

Yep. That’s where I’m going. Bye bye KS.

Work

Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of this. I’ve also been doing a lot of other things. Pretty helpful, huh?

CASP in New Orleans

I AM BACK. I definitely had a good experience in St. Bernard, LA which is a suburb of New Orleans. But I’m also glad that it wasn’t longer than four weeks, because this country boy was most certainly getting tired of living in the city (and also tired of some other things). Except for the first two days, all I did was paint. I enjoyed the painting for the most part, but it did get old. I also enjoyed living with 15 (sometimes 17) other guys, but after a while the not so large dorm seemed even “less large” and the joys of communal living decreased drastically.

Don’t be shocked, but here are a few pics from the south.

The whole group!

Jonathan Hege, Vernon Stoltzfus, and Kendall Beachy who were my faithful painting comrades.

Just so you can see that I actually did some work…

Sometimes the work was pretty stressful.

This picture is in loving memory of my friend, Jonathan Lynn Hege, (often spoken of as Hege) for whom I spent many hours with and who had a serious “hang-up” (among many other hang-ups) on this very thing.

This swimming pool proved to be quite a blessing to me since the home owner told us that we can use it as much as we like. Many good time were had!

This is a part of the not so large dorm.

Extra credit

Home, but not for long

    I am back! (And have been for a while.) As much as I enjoyed FB, there’s still no place like home. In fact, I can really enjoy life here. (Quite amazing, huh?) I will continue to be around here for about three more weeks until I will leave for New Orleans to work under Conservative Anabaptist Service Program (CASP). So why do I leave if I’m enjoying life at home? (Good question, glad you brought that up.)

This leaving and cleaving will only be for four weeks, so it will not be an exceptionally long service stint. Although I am a farmer and not a construction worker, I will try out my hand at remodeling. I have a hunch that this will bring about some interesting challenges. This is a pilot program under CASP, which means that we will be the guinea pigs that will be experimented on and used to help iron out the problems in program. YES!

FB It Is!

Someone asked me recently if FB was what I was expecting it to be. I told them no, I didn’t know what to expect. But, I did say that my experience at FB has most certainly not been disappointing. And that is quite true, things have been going quite well here and I’ve been enjoying it immensely.

Classes have been GOOD. Anabaptist Worldview was an excellent class, but the only problem was it wasn’t long enough. Interpersonal Relationships has been really good also. I’ve really been enjoying the wealth of practical and life changing material that John Coblentz has been covering.

Another nice part is that right now I have approximately 10 cousins around here. That is great! These include Lorens, Geralds, Norma, and Victoria. Last night we were all at Geralds for supper which was good since there was actually ice cream (and for other reasons)! Don’t ask where we’re going tonight for icecream…

The atmosphere in general is great around here; there are many good discussions and many good people. The other night we were talking about the differences of CBS, FB, etc., but I won’t bother you with all the gory details on what we decided… One difference is that people around here are actually here to work and learn. That’s different.

So that’s the news from Lake Wobebon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.