This past Sunday King of Grace Church and Crossway Church of Plainville Ma, had a joint picnic/hike. It was cool meeting people from Crossway. I met some families that had come up on the church plant from Fairfax Va. They know people that I know from Fairfax. We hiked to an observation tower. Luke, Daniel and Michael. Luke and Michael are from Fairfax and they are cool dudes.

I am enjoying life in the Merrimack Valley. God is teaching me a lot about faith, trust and dependence on him. Time seems to be going by very fast. It's been 1 month and 6 days since I left Lancaster. These last two weeks have sped by and now its Friday. My days have been filled with electrical work all day Monday and Tuesday and half a day Wensday. After my half day on Wednesday I meet with Paul and we talk about how things are going. We plan out the week and he gives me tasks to accomplish. The big project that I am working on now is a harvest party for the church. I made up invitations and I am also coordinating food, games, moon bounce and pony rides. It's going to be festive. I do a lot of administrative tasks for the church.
Last Sunday I went to The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with Daniel Buckley. It was an excellent museum. There was so much to see we couldn't see it all. Some of the highlights of my experience was a lion from the time of Nebuchadrezzar II, an Assyrian stone etching, and a Jackson Pollock painting. It was great spending time with Daniel in Boston. He is a great guy and Boston is a great city.
I played racket ball for the first time a week ago. It was great! It's a really fun game once you get the feel of it. I am going to have to get good and then challenge Bron to a game when I return.
I am doing well. I miss everyone in Lancaster and I miss Lancaster and it's ways. But I have faith that God wants me here. It's been such a great experience thus far!

A lot has happened in the last twelve days. I feel like I have learned so much in those days, about myself, life, and other people. God has made me aware of things that I wasn't aware of before. For instance how fragile life is and how unimportant so many things are.
Last weekend I went to the desiring God conference. It was a very rich time. The teaching was rich and my interactions with Quaay, Steve and my Dad were rich. It was great being at a non-Sovereign Grace conference. Not that I have anything against Sovereign Grace conferences. It was just good to experience our God in a different fashion. On Monday, after the conference I worked my first day for the electrical contractor. It went well. If he continues to need my help I will work for him. I am going to be working about twenty hours a week for him and about twenty hours a week for the church. After working electrical for two and a half days I took Thursday off. On my day off I drove to the coast and spent time at Gloucester and Rockport. Both of these towns are really cool. Gloucester is very fish industry oriented and Rockport is more tourist oriented. That night I went down to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and spent the evening with Phil and Pam a young couple in the church. Phil is getting his masters in theology there. It was cool being at the seminary were my grandfather earned his masters in theology. Then I woke up on Friday and got a call from Paul Buckley asking me if I wanted to come up to the White Mountains and spend the weekend with him, his family, and his wife's extended family. I accepted and of course had an excellent time. The mountain house looks out over a valley and the view is exquisite. We spent our time hanging out at the mountain house and hiking. There was also a golf excursion that was quite interesting. All of Mrs. Buckley's brothers (six of them), her mother, two nephews and Paul played nine holes of golf while the rest of the family and me (there were about ten of us in all) followed them around the golf course. Now it needs to be said that we were not all in one big group, we were in about three different groups spread across the golf course. But it was still a very funny experience because we basically took over the whole course. It was a fun weekend. The Buckleys were so kind to include me in there holiday weekend.
Church went really good today and we had a luncheon afterwards. Everybody in the church has been so kind to me and thankful that I am here. I really feel their support. A lot of people have invited me to hang out and everyone is including me in on church life. It has been great to get to know the people in the church.

Prayer Requests:
That I would make time to get into the word each day.
That I would be productive with my time.
That Alivia's spleen would reduce in size.
That the perfect donor would be found for Alivia.
That Ian Murphy would be healed.
That his family and girlfriend would be given peace and faith.