Summer has officially begun around the Gregory house.  This means oldest boys are working many days and the others are working around the house as much as we can find for them.  The pace of life has changed for a brief time.  Its also the time when I can get to Julee’s honey-do list that has been growing through the winter and early spring.

So the cedar siding on the house has been painted (while I was out of town), the new fence has been stained, the sprinkler system has been repaired, the leak in the upstairs shower has been stopped ( I think.  Redoing this bathroom may be next summer’s first project. It would be a nice feeling to know that the shower is not leaking onto the first floor ceiling and would be even nicer to sheetrock the first floor ceiling knowing this.), and the back patio has a nice flagstone paved area on one end (the house came with an endless supply of native red flagstone buried all around the yard).

Summer challenge has started and we have been following a study called ‘Operation Worldview’.  This study looks at how God is about His glory being revealed to the nations and how we fit into that story.  We have had a great time!

Our trip to SE Asia is only weeks away now and we are growing more excited.  We still need about $2000 to cover trip expenses and so are a little anxious as well.  We have been learning a way of sharing the story of the Bible from creation all the way to Christ and His death to pay the penalty of our sin and it has been fun to sit down as a family to do this.  Please be praying.