shuttering...

Last week Kevin and I traveled to Lisbon Falls Maine and had a wonderful meeting with the team from Lisbon Falls Baptist Church that will be coming to minister together at Arrowhead this summer. We are always encouraged by the enthusiasm of the team and look forward to having each of them come this summer.

This week has been busy as we prepare for "the Gathering", Arrowhead's first Men's retreat. Yesterday Liz began preparing the menu and cleaning up. I did some painting in the office. Today while Liz cleaned the main lodge, Roger, Rob and I installed the new shutters in the kitchen and dish palace (due to the recent renovations, the dish pit is now far too nice to be called a pit - so at Lorrayne's encouragement we've decided that it shall henceforth be known as the dish palace). The new shutters will help with noise reduction in the kitchen area.

This afternoon Liz and I put a couple of more coats of paint in the office. Martin Bear and another gentleman are coming tomorrow to install the new flooring in the office - so we're hopeful to have all the painting done before they arrive. I'll post some pictures of the office renovations once we have all of the furniture back in!

Please keep the men's retreat in prayer. It is our first year doing a retreat for men in this way. We are hopeful for good numbers of men and opportunities for ministry.

A new shutter and a new counter for the dish palace.

Roger making some adjustments to the big window shutter!

Holding... holding... holding...

The new shutters look pretty snazzy and should help with kitchen noise reduction.