Journey Church, Lowell, IN -- July 4 - 18

It's past blog time -- Almost two and a half weeks since I blogged last and we have been real busy, so, here we go.......

We spent Independence Day celebrating with the Journey Church family cookout and watched the fireworks at a nearby park.  Everyone had a wonderful yummy time and beautiful lights display.

Pastor Scott and Brenda

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The fireworks pics didn't turn out so good,  but the town put on a wonderful show.

Progress on the building is really taking shape and of course changing everyday.

Siding

Roof going on provides much needed shade

Siding

View from above

Because the men had already built the inside walls, installation was a time saver.

There has been a lot of work in the hot sun but we also had times of relaxation.  We celebrated Glenn's birthday with cake and ice cream and of course silly string.

On Saturday, we visited the candy factory.

This is fair week and we visited the dog show where Joyce's family were participants.

Otis and Daphne

Daphne has trained Otis so well.  He will one day be a champion.  Otis is only 5 months old.

Visiting with Beauty.  One of Joyce's grandson's horses.

Al and Less tried the tractor pull.  300 lbs  They did pretty good for their age.

Small county fairs are the best!

Journey Church, Lowell, IN

We have had a good week here in Northwest Indiana. The weather has been good for the iron workers and our guys; a little cool for late June.

Great progress on the building as the iron workers put up the iron girders. 

Our guys are anxious to put up walls but they have been busy building the inside structures. 

The storage buildings were moved from our RV area to the actual job site. They use the storage building for their tools and other supplies. 

Our former gathering place was moved under the large green shelter. 

Of course we had to decorate our gathering place for the Fourth of July.   In this picture we are watching the Daytona 400, Saturday evening. 

Today we went to breakfast and then...

...we visited The Shrine of Christ's Passion. http://shrineofchristspassion.org/

We walked the path and viewed depictions of Christ. 

In the Garden

   Jesus before Pilot

It was a very moving experience and I thought it was very well done. 

Journey Church, Lowell, IN

On  Friday, we were so happy to see the trucks roll in hauling the church metal building materials. The building was delayed by weather and other situations but now we are full steam ahead. 

Here are a few views of the first walls. 

Our guys had already constructed most of the inside walls and are anxious to start putting them up. 

On Friday evening we went to a cookout at one of the church members property. We had a real nice time complete with a hayride. But the highlight was an obstacle course where we drove a razor four wheel vehicle. The driver is blindfolded and the passenger is the navigator; telling the driver how to maneuver through the course.  The course is lined with orange tape and bails of hay.  It was hilarious. I was the navigator while Glenn drove. The only problem was that Glenn would not give it gas. We went at a snails pace. It was a timed course. We won at being the slowest. 

Al and Joyce did it too. We laughed and laughed. 

On one trip, I drove and Joyce was my navigator. 

We had a blast. 

On Saturday we all went out to breakfast then visited Hamstra Gardens. (Al's sister's place). So beautiful!!

We all had to climb the tree house. 

It was a fun day.