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

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