Thursday Night Glory

Last night was our Thursdsay night study at Lookout Joes, in Mount Lookout cincinnati.



JP, Rachel, John L, Britt, Meaghan, Brother Tom... All of you, I love you...



It was so easy to kick back and relax with such a group of deep believers... We looked intently into some killer scrips. We're looking into the 2Tim 22 and following... The implications of this are life shaking...



only the unshakeable remains!

Living with people is a crucible... When I say living with people, I don't mean just living in a nice big house with my family... And when i say a crucible, I don't mean for people in general. I mean it for me...



And when I talk about being in a crucible, you might want to drop me a "sorry you're having a tough time" comment on this blog entry...



But I'm trying to describe my joy to you. There is JOY in being in the crucible--being exposed and purified, liquified and skimmed.



In our journey, we have seen "living with" include the passing of Judy's mom after hospice care, the arrival of two beautiful exchange daughters, daily joy with a 3-yr. old, working out the details of a house-church ministry in the inner city, a marriage (i've been thinking that one first, don't worry), three jobs between us, our partner/brother in ministry living upstairs, grandpa living on the first floor, life changes in our living room, HUGE meals with LOTS of people... The best Christmas of my life, this year...



There's a pervasive sense of adventure, risk, and love... I'm constantly being called to change from evil to good...



That's what I wanted to write about. Aversion to change.

Chase House Work Needs: a list



Ministry/1st Floor Life:

Kitchen-

-Wiring in Countertop Range (220v) from box downstairs

-Vent the Range through the floor and out the basement window

-paint the kitchen





Servant Stairs:

-Rip out carpet (miserable light blue, stained to death by asphalt from drive)

-Paint steps 2-tone brown and white, texturize

-paint stairway a light color



Wiring/Electrical:

-Lighting and receptacles need to be installed in the house. It would be fine to run exposed conduit and wire moldings. Whatever it takes to get the place RUNNING with light and power.



Meeting Room:

-build temporary wall between Mtg. Room and Downstairs Hospitality Quarters.

-Paint

-Lighting (i'm thinking track lighting, here.)



Hallway/Dining Room/Atrium:

-Strip Wallpaper

-Paint

-Lighting-- the whole place is running on lamps. It's dark, and not energy-efficient.



This is a list of the First Floor Hospitality Areas that need work. We want you guys to come help out! It's a great way to get into what's going on here! Comment here to get involved!

House Meeting:



Today's house meeting, the second of our special series, was really fruitful... We looked at some of the accomplishments of the year:

-Dining Room useful every day, not totally overtaken with Chaos. Nice 12-top table...

-Meeting Room is developing very well.

-Floors finished, carpets out on curb.

-Normal Weekly Cleaning on schedule for 1st floor.

-Exercise Area established in Basement.

-Bookshelves built in study.

-books out of basement.

-two nice, new wheeled gargabe cans!

-Latches on all bathrooms, bedrooms.

-Common kitchen Progressing: first Stove wired in.

-Banister fixed on servant stairs to first floor...



We are very grateful to all the people who are helping us. Thanks for the time you're putting into the establishment of a house of ministry in a generation that is discovering Jesus in the "unlikelies".

I'd like everyone to notice that Judy's dad, Johannes Weiss, now has a blog. His teachings are solid, Biblical, and Spiritually right-on. Sacred Cow Beef sold here, without money and without cost. Click the link right here, or in the margin, and catch a hardy bite of truth!

First in a While

It's been so long since I've posted here... Most of my free time, my "blog time" is going into wrestling with Seth and Aaron, loving Judy, and leading this small band into battle...



The Rosses have had a great fall and winter. Aaron's homeschooling situation is going well, developing into a household lifestyle of learning... I look forward to seeing how much he learns by the time he's ready for college. He's become an avid reader, polishing off ten chapters of Redwall per day, at least, lately...



Dad Weiss has just arrived for a week visit from his place in CA. I'll fill you in on more, soon...



Lew

Tuesday and Thursday mornings this week, we're having some time of sharing and prayer about the establishment of some Christian Community here in Northside... The last months have seen several people come out with the desire to get into the neighborhood and love Jesus, here...