A long delivery

Cork and Sue are driving our new mini van all the way from Portland, OR to Sebastopol.  Cross country delivery.  Cork got a great deal on a Honda Odyssey for us.  Cork is a slick used car salesman as well as a pastor and he can buy vehicles whole sale.  Strange combination but if he [...]

Our new home

We’re settling down here in the “Pol” (pronounced pool and is short for Sebastopol).  We have most of our boxes unpacked and have disposed of the mice that formerly occupied our abode (I heard they moved to Albuquerque).   This is a jewel of a town.

This is our new house; well it’s the church parsonage.

This is [...]

Throwdown in Pink

Shelby turned four on April 7th.  We celebrated on April 5th with some family.  We threw down in pink.  Everything was pink.  It was Shelby’s pink party.  Everyone was asked to wear a pink shirt.  We had a pink cake, pink candles, pink balloons, a pink table cover, and Shelby wore a pink outfit.

The star [...]

On the hunt

The Saturday before I preached my trial sermon for Sebastopol Baptist (March 23), we came to their Easter egg hunt which was fun for the kids. It was a good informal introduction to the church.

Shelby is a natural born egg finder. Never mind she had a bit of help from ye old papa.

Trey [...]

We’re here

We moved to Sebastopol last Friday.  At least half of our stuff is in place and unpacked.  Our first Sunday at church went great and you would have been amazed at the lunch spread after the morning service.  The entrees covered 3-4 folding tables and the desserts covered 2.  We now have internet access and [...]