Another great week

The weather has started to warm up into the 80's around here. It's getting pretty humid. I've started bring extra shirts to work this past week. It turns out I sweat a lot. The work at Rock of Ages is moving along at a pretty good clip now. The sanctuary and classrooms are painted. The fellowship hall downstairs is almost ready for texture and the bathrooms are finally drywalled. Thanks to the team from Midland, MI that worked really hard on getting all that done this week. Amy's home church, Grace EFC, will be here next week. They'll be working on the church and another house in the city. I'm hoping we'll be able to close that house out this week. Our volunteer numbers will be coming down a little over the next few weeks. We need to finish up some of these smaller jobs so we can focus our few resources on the bigger projects we have open right now.

You can be praying for our health this week. I've started getting a cold. Amy's doing OK. We've actually had some of our volunteers getting really sick while they are here. Some have even had to make ER visits. Please be praying for this. We don't know what's causing it.

Finally, I've been thinking a lot about 1 Peter 2:9 lately.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

It's just been showing up in different places all this week. First in a couple of songs I was listening to in the truck, then on the backs of the t-shirts the team from MI was wearing. So I thought I would share it with you. Have a wonderful week. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

~Phil (for Phil and Amy)