Hi everyone,
What a summer and fall we have had.
It has been quite a time. Sorry we have been out of touch. We are all on facebook, and we invite you to find us there as well.
Some of the highlights of recent days include:

Nicholas, now 18 was awarded the Boy Scout Eagle rank, a high honor. It is Boy Scout's highest rank, and less than 4% earn it. He is still in his senior year in his home school. He is beginning to look at his options for his next season of life, doing things with computers seems to be his main interest.
Our family just framed up a 1800 square foot house, plus the 24x24 garage, and porch.
In just 16 days, we had it framed, sheeted, doors, windows and overhead door in, metal roof installed, soffit installed, and all interior framing complete. We will be doing the drywall in a couple of weeks, after the electrican and plumber are finished with rough in.
Joshua(16) has been working hard on music, it is his primary interest. He led our church's youth service from the guitar, and did a great job. With Samuel playing his bass like a pro. The youth did a human video as well. It is awesome and I challenge you to see and hear it on our church website www.abbynrc.com
Joshua and Samuel both share a dream to attend Hillsongs college in Sydney Australia to pursue music and ministry. Hillsongs college is responsible for a lot of today's comtemporary music.
The boys are all studying and working hard. We are very grateful for their hearts and attitudes.
Ethan(7) and Rosa(3) are a joy to us every day. Of course so are the other four.. they wanted to make sure I pointed that out.
Our church is thriving in all areas, this past week we had a record attendance of 47 kids in Awana, and a record attendance of 147 in the Sunday service.
Brian, Charlotte, Joshua, and Samuel play in the Sunday worship team most weeks. It has been a blast leading and teaching the church in worship, the congregation has been so gracious to us, and God has been glorified.
Brian, Joshua, Samuel and some others will be attending a worship seminar in Wisconsin Rapids this Saturday. It is being put on from a leader from Hillsong college.
Brian has booked a music concert for our church for this Sunday night, we are looking forward to this, it will be our church's first real concert. It will be a coffee house style concert, and the artists, David and John Yonker are great.
We have been hired by the Colby School board to install the theatre audio system. It has been a interesting process, and has provided us a incredible opportunity for our future.
We have learned that there are very few sound consultants in our greater area, and it seems most have a high budget mentality.
We are working with one of our areas largest music stores, Brian has known the owner since his early teens, (like 30 years). We have learned that this store does not service on site consulting needs, only because he has no one to do the work. We have talking about a win win situation here, and the owner of the store is nearly as excited as we are. Our business is CWC Inc. (doing business as Central Wisconsin Construction, and have added the name Consulting With Clarity for the sound consulting branch of the business.) It is exciting to have the opportunity to take your hobby and be hired as a pro to help others in need. Our heart in this whole thing is to provide excellent service at common sense prices. It seems as the need is quite high, how exciting.
We have booked a trip to Florida for vacation in January and will spend some time in Biloxi MS on the return side of the trip. We will assess our work load at that time and decide how to spend our winter months. Right now it seems we have work in WI. It has been our prayer that if it is God's will for us to be up here in the frozen tundra, God would need to provide open doors for us.
Most of us would rather travel south, but we want to be in God's will.
Charlotte's sister Peggy and her husband Michael have moved back to California. Michael's job in St. Paul ran dry and he got a great job north of L.A.
Amanda and Nathan, Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law, are expecting their first little blessing from heaven. No, our families don't peek, so we know she is having a baby... but we will have to see in January if we have a niece or nephew. This will be the first time for us to be an auntie and uncle. So exciting!
We will spend thanksgiving with Charlotte's family at our home this year.
We will try to do a better job with updates.
God bless you all!
The Haines family