Monday, November 23, 2009

November 09 update

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




Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Time flies when you are having fun

Hi everyone,



Wow, it has been a long time since we have posted.



Things have been CRAZY......busy this year.



I do not even know where to start, so I will just start.





Charlotte has taken on some hefty responsibilities. She has taken on the main role in the Tiger den of Cub scouts, this includes recruiting and training.



Also, she has taken on the leader role for the Cubbies group in Awana at our church.

The Boy Scouts have also been busy this year. In addition to our usual summer camps, the scouts also had a regional event this year, celebrating 100 years of scouting. Charlotte, Nicholas, Joshua, Samuel and Andrew attended this event at the EAA grounds in Oshkosh, WI. Over 10,700 attended.

We spent a weekend camping at Medford this July to celebrate the 4th. We were given news that Charlotte's youngest sister Amanda is expecting a baby due about Jan. 1.

We purchased a downtown Abbotsford building this year and have added a third apartment. We invested much work into this project, including updating many issues with the building.

The whole family is working hard on music. We play regularly on the worship team at church. Joshua had the opportunity to obtain a awesome guitar this week. He is now playing drums, keys, and guitar.

Work has been plentiful. In fact, we are running hard to keep up. Since finishing the apartment, we have done several window jobs, restored 2 distressed garages, and completed a roof job.

We will be framing up a house soon, we have been hired to partner with a person desiring to be his own general contractor. It is a 1800 square foot house with a attached garage and large porch.

Just this evening, we have been approved by the buildings and grounds committee as the recommended bidder for the theatre audio project for the Colby High School.

We have booked a vacation for January in Florida. We are planning to visit south Mississippi on our return.

We are all healthy, and blessed.

The kids are growing so fast, even baby Rosa is already 3.

I apologize for being out of touch, life has been so crazy.

I pray you are very blessed as you read these words.

Brian

Monday, August 17, 2009

Finally, the pictures we promised!!
























































Hi everyone,




















Wow, a month has past since the last post. These are pictures of the completed church, including ministry in action. Enjoy!




















The Haines family

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

June update















































































Hi everyone!

Wow, we are finally almost finished with the church remodel. We have been hired to do numerous extra projects as we were well under budget. It turns out we were able to recondition almost the entire basement, which was not part of the original plan.

We have a couple of weeks left, however.

We plan to go to the Boy Scout family camp in a couple of weeks. We are all excited to have the opportunity for a little rest an relaxation. This will be Nicholas' last year camping as a Scout, as he turns 18 in July.

Joshua and Samuel spent last week at the Scout Northwoods challenge. Joshua served as a leader.

Andrew and Ethan are attending the summer school program and are enjoying it.

We made the trip up to Rhinelander this past Saturday to enjoy the doings and the trip.

It FINALLY warmed up this week, in fact highs are over 90 these days!

We have a lot of work waiting for us, in fact it almost overwhelming.
We mentioned in the last post that Brian has an interest in offering sound consulting, design and install services. He provided this service to the church and has an opportunity to do the same for the public school in our theatre. He will be turning in our bid tomorrow and are very excited about the opportunity to provide these services to our own community. He feels strongly that he has a far better proposal than the competing bids. The contract will be awarded to the best bidder on July 20 at the school board meeting. Pray for us to have favor with the school superintendant, Terry Downen, other advisors, and the school board. It seems as though there is a great need for consultants in this speciality field.

We will soon be adding an apartment to a building we recently purchased.

Our church is doing great. We had our building dedication service on June 14. We had 140 attending the the English service, the most ever.

We followed that service up with a picnic at a nearby city park. In addition to our Church, we joined up with the Hispanic church and had nearly 300 attendees. It was a very great day!
We will upload some pictures of the recent weeks.

Thank you for checking in our page.

May God richly bless you this week according to HIS riches in Glory!!
In Christ
The Haines family
























Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Pressing on






















Hi everyone,












Sorry we have not posted much lately, but we are kind of stuck in a rut. Work at the church, eat, sleep, work at the church.












We are taping the drywall in the fellowship hall. The room is 1800 square feet, the size of a larger 3 bedroom ranch house.












Everything is going very well, the building is turning out nice, services are being well attended, and growing. We are healthy. The kids are growing up very fast.












Our cub scouts had their soap box derby last Saturday Ethan got to race for the first time. All 5 of the boys are now in scouting.












Rosa turned 3 on May 8. She is such a big girl already. We are so proud of her.












Charlotte and all the boys marched in the local Memorial Day parade with the scouts.












Nicholas has been busy trying to earn his Eagle Scout rank. He has taken on the updating of the old historical marker in Colby. There were old overgrown shrubs that needed to be updated.






He and the other scouts have replaced it with a new landscape garden. The jobsite part of the project is now complete, and hopefully he will meet the rest of the requirements to acheive this rank. Only 2% of scouts reach this high honor and he is very close now.












One thing maybe exciting is that Brian has been interested in offering services to the public in sound consulting, designing, and installation. He has been frustrated with a consistant problem where people are spending huge sums of money on gear, and have no ability to use it correctly. He has had professionals in related businesses, such as music stores confirm this.












He has over 25 years experience in sound, from the early years in the rock band, d.j. service, many years at Beleiver's church, Nightmare, and now North Ridge Church.












Our church trusted him to design, obtain, and install the sound system. It turned out great, and a very modest budget was used.












We noticed in our local newspaper that our high school is doing a sound system in the remodel of the school theatre, the very room our church was birthed. It also listed the budget, which was triple what we spent at the church. The system needed there is similar to the system needed for our church. We contacted them about our interest in bidding on the project, and they are interested! It will be interesting to see how this plays out.












Brian will be doing sound for a wedding at the Marshfield North Ridge Church for a friend from the years at Believer's church.












We will post some random pictures of life here at this time.












In Christ












The Haines family

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Big Tree, Little house











Hi everyone,

Just a quick update, and I am going to load some pictures.

Last weekend we had some thunderstorms in our area. In Spencer, a large maple tree split and fell on a small ranch house. We were hired by the owner's insurance company to do the repairs.
We took a leave from the church job on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
We had to repair a number of broken trusses, a number of sheets of plywood that were damaged, subfascia boards, and a ridge beam.

As of today, we have all structural repairs finished, and the new roof is on. We will return in June to finish the fascia, gutters and interior repairs. There are a number of cracks, a limb pushed into the bathroom and the dining light was pushed through the ceiling.

The church has hired us to finish the basement of the church. This will be a large drywall job, and a large ceiling job.

We have a deadline to meet as there is a wedding dinner in the basement on June 6. The church also plans a grand opening celebration on June 14. We should be able to meet these deadlines.

Nicholas spent the weekend camping with the Boy Scouts.

Our family has been working hard with music. Charlotte has been playing keyboards, and Joshua
will play lead guitar tomorrow.

We have been keeping busy with all the usual things, schooling, scouts, church and work.
If you are in the area, stop by and see the church, it is turning out very nice.

Thanks for checking our blog.

In Christ,

The Haines family

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Remembering Kristi

Hi everyone,

I am typing in front of open windows, it is over 70 degrees for the first time in many months. It is so refreshing.

Our hearts are heavy. Charlotte's cousin Kristi passed away Monday at the age of 24. She contracted a case of pnuemonia, and somehow a bloodclot related to it got into her heart.
She was sick over the weekend and her caretakers decided to take her in to get checked.
Kristi walked in to the Stanley hospital, then was airlifted to Marshfield where she passed away in the ICU.
Her parents drove fast from Stanley to Marshfield and did not even make it there in time.
The funeral wake was Thursday and was well attended. The funeral was Friday and was well attended. Brian served as a pallbearer. The weather was so pretty, it seemed odd to do a funeral. Every person released a helium balloon at the burial site. It was cool symbolism.


We are still mostly busy with the church remodel. Things are going great. We celebrated Easter along with our hispanic congregation and had 154 in atttendance. Praise be to God!

We have been installing the technical details, mounting the projecter, speakers, things of that nature this week, and installing windows.

Easter was celebrated at our home on Saturday before Easter with Charlotte's parents, Michael and Peggy, Nathan and Amanda, and Becky.

Nicholas and Joshua are now doing behind the wheel training.

Brian, Nicholas, Joshua, Samuel and Andrew along with 8 others from the youth group went to see Pillar and Fireflight at Rhinelander on Wed. night.

The Boy scouts did roadside cleanup. It is the 2 miles south of Colby on SHW 13.

Nicholas is working on his Boy Scout Eagle project, it has to be complete before he turns 18 on July 23. He is coordinating improving the historical marker site in Colby about Colby cheese.

Thanks for checking in on us.

In Christ

The Haines family.