Week 1

Nathan and Amy arrived in Moose Pass on Monday, June 14th. We enjoyed having them here for dinner and getting to know them, and then before we even had dessert served, Nathan and Mark were at work on the plans!

God works in mysterious ways, I tell you. The next-door neighbor to the church, Phil, was a man we had reached out to many times and in many ways. He was friendly, and a very good, helpful neighbor...but bring up anything having to do with "religion," and he wanted nothing to do with it. We knew the rest of his family were Christians and were also praying for him, but to the best of our knowledge, he never budged.

Phil passed away unexpectedly on June 7th. We spoke with his family on the phone a few times before they came up to settle his affairs, and we had the privilege of worshiping with them on Sunday, June 13th. They were thrilled to hear of our church project, and encouraged us to come and get all of the building materials that were around, and loaned us all of Phil's tools for the summer. You see, Phil was a contractor. And nearly everything that he had was something we needed...right down to tools that Nathan had wanted to bring but simply didn't have the space. The exact gauge rebar we needed. And on and on it went...for a more thorough perspective, you can read Nathan's post.

In God's perfect timing, Nathan was here to start hauling all of the new materials over. And our dear friends Joe and Marge along with Mark's mom arrived the night of the 15th...Joe was here in perfect time to help haul...it would have taken one person all week to do the amount of work they two of them did in a few days.

It breaks our heart that Phil refused to honor God in his lifetime. Yet he is serving God in his death. Satan didn't get the last laugh on this one. It's a hard dichotomy to process. But blessed be the name of the LORD.