Well, a bit of time has passed since I posted. A lot of things have happened. It has been a busy month. Let me do a little catching up before I get back to the string of writings that I started out doing!

I took a little vacation early in May, going to Houston, spending time with family and friends. Then there was Annual Conference at the end of May, again back in Houston. However, no time to visit outside of visiting AT Conference!

Back here in B'ville, things have been hopping as well. The Beckville Bearcat Baseball time made it into the playoffs. I know they were their district champs and we went two more rounds into the playoffs before loosing! I managed to get to the last two or three games. I really enjoyed watching them play...even though they lost! They are still to be congratulated! GO BEARCATS!

School ended with a couple of hard times for the kids. The senior high counselor, who had been ill all year with brain cancer died just before the end of the year and then additionally, the band leader had heart surgery, got through that okay, but then died rather suddenly. He was still in the hospital so it was probably related to the heart surgery. The school system here has had, this year then, three deaths. Just before school started last summer one of the kindergarten teachers died. It has been a rough year!

The parsonage has been leveled, the heater replaced, the air conditioner cleaned and I am working now on the main bathroom. We are going to do some painting, probably this fall when things are a little cooler! I told them I would buy the pizza! Hehehe! I am not much of a painter on a grand scale. I am going to attempt to paint the bathroom, after I get the new tiles laid. They are just the stick on kind of tiles that you can lay easily. I have gotten the main center part down and now it will be the time to do the cutting of the odd pieces that will fill in around the edges and the like! I felt rather accomplished just getting the main pieces laid...a little "Martha Stewart" like!

As far as church goes...whew! Where to start? We are doing Vacation Bible School, the first time in several years. This first year, we are just doing like three days and then a program; kind of getting our feet wet, and additionally see how things work for when we start our new Childrens and Youth Ministry program. It will start in July. We had thought about starting it in June, but we needed the time to work on VBS! There are scads of little kids here! For such a small community, we are blessed!

Well, for the time being that is all I am going to write. I will try and be a little more dilegent in my postings now!