After taking 6 girls from our youth group “Survival” camping with the other Tim and Esther I’m back to the church to do some more remodeling! Camping was crazy! We made our own shelters and ate all our food cooked over the fire! Unfortunately Tim and I’s shelter was NOT water proof… and it rained the entire time! Oh and the small bitting bugs were out in force! The kids handled it and we all made it home alive. It did make for some crazy moments though! Now this week I will be working in the basement of the church building some MASSIVE walls and getting things ready for Sunday school to start back up as well as the future teen hang out area! WoooHoooo

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Wow! I can’t believe May is just 7 days from being gone! This is just a quick post to try and get this video up from when we remodeled the church. I hope it works! I will be back up and writing soon

Well I’m back from the Hike and actually have been for a few days nows, but just haven’t had a chance to get on here and post an update. Right after we Got back I got sick with the flu and then started doing some serious remodeling at the church, so Its been a busy last week!
 
We set out to go just under 100 miles in 4 1/2 days but had to call it quits a day and a half short we made it right around 60 miles in three days, right on schedule, but Chris came down with the flu and Tim Robson’s feet developed some serious issues! The 3 days we were out there were absolutely amazing though! I think it has been the best three days in a row we have had yet.
When we got back… I got the flu that Chris had had out on the trail. Thankfully it turned out to be just a 48 hour kinda bug, so 2 days of misery and throwing up, then all better
 
The first day of not throwing up I was at church in Glasgow all day. We have just begun some serious remodeling at the church… of which I am in charge of AHHHHHHHHHH! Haha Everything is going well though. In the last 50 years our church was used as a school and some sort of theater, so there was a HUGE theatrical stage built inside of it and that is what we are tearing out. There are 2 sections to the stage, one 50 year old part built of wood and another newer section built of metal, the older section is what we removed this last weekend. Once we have removed all of it we are going to rebuild a smaller stage using the wood beams from the old section and the actual stage floor from the newer section…. whew…
 
All that to say, in tearing out the old part of the stage we rediscovered the original church floor from the early 1800’s and man is it gorgeous!! That was day one of the project done this last Saturday. And now the second week of May I will be in Glasgow all week doing the big part of the Job which will be tearing out the MUCH larger newer part of the stage and rebuilding a much nicer smaller one… all in a week! Again… AHHHHHHHHHH well the Church just has to be usable at the end of the week, most of the big stuff should be done but there will be Lots of little stuff to finish up for at least a month or so of Saturdays I am sure. If you want to know more about my church you can check it out here www.rehope.co.uk/
 
It is also an amazing place to be involved in right now. Less than 1% of 18 to 30yr olds in Glasgow’s west end (where the church is) are “Churched” or in other words, do not goto or have never been to church. But, on this last Sunday there were at least 60 to 70 people at our evening service, of which close to half it was there first time ever coming and out of those who are left, half of them have been coming for less than 4 months! AND all but one couple in the entire church were in the 18 to mid 30’s age range! Whats even crazier is that some of these folks are not even “Christian!” They just came in one Sunday and they keep coming back! None of this is to boast about “our Church,” but all this to say in what seems like a place where there is not much hope… God is moving. What a blessing it is for me to be able to be a part of this and be given the chance to become friends with all these people!
 
On top of all that the first Intern out of 5 maybe 6, arrives on Thursday and the next DTS starts on Sat! So I am also working on teachings and helping put together a list of ministry/service possibilities for them to get involved with in the community once they get here! It’s starting to get exciting around here I am really excited to see what new ministry’s God will develop and connect us to in this new and upcoming season here at Stanely House! It’s about to get Crazy