Cool Concrete

Here's some pictures of the ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms)before they put it up last week and the concrete being poured today. The ICF makes up 6 feet of the foundation wall. It was so cool to watch! It's actually starting to look like a structure!

ICF up close

 

My fascination with cement trucks was renewed! I think they are so cool!

 The cement truck dumped into the pump truck which lifted it way up and a guy used a remote to control it and pour it in the middle of the ICF.

Pouring in the Cement.

The guys work more cement in the second time around. FYI: The reason the front wall is shorter is for the walk-out basement.

Footings!!!

The frame for the footings.

The footings are done!!

Up close to the footings. Progress is happening!

Summer Training Institute

Game Practice!

We made everyone eat with a random kitchen utensil...ahh the fun that comes from leading the meals.=]

Demo Club

 Security Checks on Canada Day. Anyone not wearing red and white or their nametag was required to do "community service" and do the dishes. Security was tight because Queen Elizabeth came to visit (aka Queen Elizabeth Kinney).

Debbie, another CEF staff worker that is American and married a Canadian found this flag so on the 4th of July, she and I, the "American Dignitaries" came to promote peace between our two nations. I finally got to celebrate the 4th of July after 3 years!!!!

North Team 2010

Notice the name "North TEAM" given to our group this year- our kids insisted that this year's group could not call us mom and dad and could only be a team not a family. =] (Even though Grace is actually Daniel's sister...I'm not sure how that works out). Please pray for these 5 teens as they'll be teaching over the next 6 weeks. R & G will be together for 4 weeks, then R & R will teach for the last 2 weeks. We are delighted by the team we have.

This week the girls are in Whitefish and the boys in Port Sydney and Orillia. I'm driving kids from our Good News Club to the Port Sydney club so it's nice to be able to focus on discipline issues without having to teach. Please pray for these kids to come to be convicted of their sin and to come to know God personally and be changed by Him!

Please pray for the teaching teams as they're discovering "real" kids present many more challenges than the chairs and trees they practiced teaching at training.

North Family Reunion

It was SO amazing to be at the Summer Training Institute and to have 3 of our 4 "kids" there with us (our team from last summer). Since last year, Belle moved from Thunder Bay to southern Ontario and been adopted (in all ways except legal) by Ariel's family and finally for the first time in 17 years has a family! The neat thing is that Belle was sent back to Thunder Bay for the summer to teach clubs, so has gone full circle in a way since last year! She is so changed from last year- her incredible joy-filled spirit and love just bounces out from her now...it's amazing what love can do!

 The girls still call us "mom" and "dad" and even came to say Good-night and get a hug every night at training.

Daniel was so changed spiritually after last summer that his sister decided to come out with CEF this year!

 We were just missing Greg for a full reunion.