1st Anniversary for Renew

Little did we know that when we moved to Carroll that we would be part of planting a church here. It is amazing how God works when and where you least expect. If you would have told us that we would be starting a church when we moved here we would have probably laughed. As always our plans are not God's plans. For his plans are greater and mightier than our own.

Renew: The name of our church is about change and making sure everyone knows about the love of God. For He will make a new creation out of us if we just call on Him.

So far this has been an exciting journey. We started off with just a few people meeting together in homes, and then we had a few preview services in the middle school, from that point we had our services at night at another church, and now we are in the process of getting the building we have completed. We are meeting each Sunday in this building as we get it completed. The location is great it is in the center of town. We would like to be the HUB of our community. Please pray for us as we continue our journey. This past Sunday our message was from 2 Kings chapter 3. The main verses were:

¹⁴ Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, if I did not have respect for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not pay any attention to you. ¹⁵ But now bring me a harpist.”
While the harpist was playing, the hand of the Lord came on Elisha ¹⁶ and he said, “This is what the Lord says: I will fill this valley with pools of water. ¹⁷ For this is what the Lord says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink. ¹⁸ This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord; he will also deliver Moab into your hands. ¹⁹ You will overthrow every fortified city and every major town. You will cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones.”

²⁰ The next morning, about the time for offering the sacrifice, there it was—water flowing from the direction of Edom! And the land was filled with water.

The main point in the message was that the process of building a church community is that you have to dig a lot of trenches before you see a lot of rain. So we continue to dig because we want to see a lot of lives changed.

 

 

 

Our band. I love that teenagers lead our worship every Sunday. It is so neat to see them use their Gift of Music each week. They are learning early what it means to serve our Father. 

We Interrupt our Regular Post

Yesterday was our anniversary. I ended up in the Emergency Room. So this is story of how I ended up in the E.R. on our anniversary. I was doing my wife duty of washing dishes and boom CRASH a glass breaks and cuts my thumb. The cut is close to the palm not a great place for a cut. I yell for Patrick to come help me. Let me just tell you I am horrible with seeing my own blood. I guess I was thinking Oh No I am going to bleed to death because I got a faint and sick at my stomach all at once. Did I mention I am not good with blood well I'm not so great with needles either and all I could think of was last summer how Patrick had to get stitches in his hand and how they seemed to just stab him in the finger with numbing meds. So embarrassingly enough I had to sit or recline back two times on my way to the truck. Patrick had to tell me to calm down and to breath so I used a  breathing technique from birthing class. Let me tell you it helped so much. Once we got in the E.R. I proceeded to tell the nurse then the doctor that I am awful with blood and needles. I was blessed with a great nurse and doctor thank goodness I didn't get the doctor Patrick had last summer. If that doctor would have walked in I think I would have passed out on the spot. Anyway now I have 3 stitches in my thumb for the week. I had no idea how much I used my left thumb now that it is almost impossible to do so. Some things I have found challenging: buttoning pants, changing diapers, and picking up Charles. The only perk out of this whole thing is that I can't wash dishes until they remove my stitches on Monday, June 11. The Box household will be using plastic cups for awhile since we have such a horrible track record with glass. So our 6th year is off to a crazy start.

Our 6th Anniversary

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary. Last night we celebrated by going out to Charlie's Steak House and to watch What to Expect when you are Expecting.

Our Wedding Day

Our big ultrasound this past year with Charles.

Our big boy. He has helped to make year 5 an exciting year.
We are looking forward to many more happy and exciting years in our future.

Oh Well

I had some really cool pictures to share of Patrick and I from Band Award Night, a picture update on the really cool blanket I am making, and I also wanted to share pictures of our newly painted bathroom. Well the bathroom was about two-three weeks ago. I just now had some time to work on updating the blog, and our little connecter to upload pictures is at the High School!!! Oh well I guess all of this will have to wait until Monday or Tuesday.

I would like to say happy birthday to all of our friends and family that have had a birthday recently. I am extremely sorry if I forgot to mail a card. My brain seems to have been removed from my body lately if I don't write down a to do list it doesn't get accomplished. So that everyone gets a happy birthday or happy anniversary:
May 12- Dianne (birthday)
May 13- Addison (birthday)
May 15- Elizabeth (birthday)
May 19- Chris and Lottie (anniversary)
May 23- Patrick (birthday)
May 25-Bill and Mike (birthday)
May 26- Jake (birthday)
May 27- Kim (birthday)
May 29- Alex and Pat (anniversary)

Updates through pics

Our Campsite
Yes, I slept in a tent for 2 nights! Here is my proof.

Corn Hole or Bags we all enjoyed playing.

The balancing game in cooking.

The Men

The HOT Ladies

Patrick trying out his Ugly Stick. Luckily no one was hit with it.lol

Fishing Continued...

My beautiful flowers from my sweet hubby for our 4th wedding anniversary.

This past Saturday we invited all rising 9th -12th grade band members to movie night in our back yard. We had a projector, a sheet, and a sound system. We had fun and hope the students did too.