CLEAR LAKE

What a blessing to say that Clear Lake is HOME!  We moved into our rental home on February 1st.  We were greeted we with a fantastic surprise from some members of our core group....food and supplies to stock the pantry.  SO BLESSED!  We got to work right away moving everything from the garage into the house....wow we have a lot of stuff.  But I can say that we are 90% unpacked and settled at this point.  We are waiting on one book shelf that we ordered which should be delivered today.  Then we will unpack more of John's books.  His office area will be complete once we find a chair and a desk for him.  Yesterday we finished unpacking all the home school stuff so this morning was back to the grind stone for the kids....they are doing great!

Speaking of the kids....they were so excited to have their own rooms and to set them up.  You can definitely see each of their personalities in their rooms.  Johnathan has guitars all our his room and he also has the family keyboard in there.  Nattalie's room takes on a very girly look and was completely organized within a few hours after we asked them to work on their rooms.  Daniel's room is a mixture of all the things that he is into....cameras, yoyos, and also Knex (which all have to be put back together).  So fun to see them growing up and getting their own "style" of their room.....now of course I will go in often to make sure that our "styles" stay clean.  :)

We actually have a place to set up our home exercise equipment and leave it set up.  We are excited to get into a routine each morning in making sure that we are taking care of our bodies.  I would love to say that we have this all up and together, but hopefully that will fit the agenda for this afternoon or this evening.

God has been paving the way for us here in the Clear Lake area with so great help of our hardworking core group members.  We are truly blessed with workers who diligently complete tasks and continue to ask..."What's next?"  Currently we are working on preparing our meeting place which is a warehouse area.  With a clean coat of paint, chairs and carpet this will be the prefect place to meet.  We have been blessed with free carpet not only for the warehouse, but for the church building in the future.  So exciting to see all the doors that the Lord is opening here in the Clear Lake area!

We are getting to know people in the community and are truly amazed at how God is preparing this community for HBC Clear Lake.  We have our first vision night/core group meeting on Sunday night.  We are praying that God will lead many that will join us on this journey!