Garage and great helper

We have been blessed in grand ways!!!

We had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends in Michigan --- we were gone for 10 days. We got to help our daughter Marti and her husband Tim move to a new home in Kalamazoo and even got to spend a night in that new home. We were also able to watch Clayton and Sawyer in their swim lessons. Sawyer was not a happy swimmer that day but they really both did great. Then we were also able to enjoy watching Sidney and Austin practice for their Age Group Swim Team. It's fun to see kids excited about something like that and to do so well also.

It's always good to visit with our Overisel Church friends too. You are so supportive and we thank God for each one of you!!

Then back to South Dakota for a FUN Box Social --- a fundraiser for some dear neighbors. Barb S. is battling cancer and this was a way to help them with all the cost of travel and meds and so on. It was a grand success!!! and we were glad we didn't miss it.

On Saturday we received a phone call --- caller had to leave a message...... It was rather hard to understand so we played it over about 3 or 4 times and finally realized it was a young man that we had gotten to know at the JDC. We had told Jeremy that he should come to the Lakeview church when he got out and he said "Oh, I'll be there." Jeremy had gotten out on Wednesday and called to say he wanted to come to church and needed directions. YES!!!! I hoped that my directions were easy to follow....Sunday morning - they arrived before we did. :)
Jeremy, his mom, little sister and younger brother. As it turns out Jeremy and his mom know several of the ladies in our church from school days. Mom said she had been looking for a church in the area and they would be back. The two youngest ones are signed up for PLYC. PRAISE THE LORD! He is faithful!

Having gotten to know Jeremy quite well--- we decided to ask if he would like to come and help with the garage that Gary has been working on. Yes! Jeremy wanted to!! I have tried to post photos and for some reason I can't :( !!! But Jeremy is doing a great job!! Yesterday they put the trusses up and today the siding goes on. A couple of band aids this morning --- but then one was for Gary and 2 for Jeremy. Working with sheet metal --- sharp edges.

There are still things - those last minute things - to do for Prairie Light Youth Camp, but we do feel that for the most part we are ready. Please keep camp in your prayers!! Travel for the volunteers coming from so many places - Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Sioux Falls and other areas of South Dakota, Iowa, Montana ........... But most of all - please remember the children. Pray that God's Good News will go out to them loud and clear, and that camp will be a fun and safe week.

If anyone has an idea why I can't post photos - please let me know. It's very frustrating and will be even more so when camp starts!!!

Thank You once again for your prayers and support is so many many ways.

Gary and Barb