Easter is coming, lots of work remaining

Hi everyone,

How time flies. We noticed we have not posted in about a month, the longest ever.

The last post was about the battle of the bands. We did not win, but gave the winning band a great challenge. We had a blast. Brian wound up doing the sound for all of the other bands, and we were left without a sound man. We learned some good things at the seminar.

We also mentioned having a week off. We were blessed by Nathan and Amanda offering to watch all 6 children for spring break. This enabled us to have a whole week off.

We spent the week in downtown Minneapolis. The family and the church respected our time off and we were left completely alone. No phone calls even. In fact no one even knew where we were.

We had such a blast. We never get time alone. One highlight of the trip was an outing to the Waubasha cave in St. Paul. On Thursday evenings, they have a swing dance. It is amazing. There were hundreds there, and to our suprise, the majority under the age of 30. The crowd was there to dance, most only drinking water. If you are ever in the Twin Cities, check it out.

We have been working long days on the church remodel. We are about 3/4 finished with the project and the plan is to move in April 12, Easter. The church has now hired us to do the windows. We are very excited as we have accomplished more than what was planned, and completely in budget.

Our family is also very involved in the worship band. With the Silva family currently in Brazil, Brian is the full time worship leader, Joshua is either on drums or keyboard, Samuel is on bass most weeks, Charlotte is on keys some weeks, and Nicholas is involved with sound, overheads, and recording.

Ricardo taught us a lot. We have been able to press on with an awesome worship band. We practice 2 nights every week, plus Sunday morning.

We would be honored to have you as our guests. We will meet one last time at Colby High School this Sunday at 9:00 A.M.
Easter will be at 10:00 at the church in Abbotsford.
Our church website is www.abbynrc.com We have services posted online.

We are sad we never made it to MS this winter, but feel we are in God's will.

The kids are all growing up so fast, Nicholas will be 18 in July. Wow.

Thanks for checking in on our blog.
May God richly bless you according to His riches in Glory.

In Christ,

The Haines family