Measure Twice, Cut Once

It is cold out, most morning it is 30 degrees below freezing and that is Celsius, I have been trying to work in this weather but it is slow. I did get some more scaffling up and a few sheets of wall broad up I will soon have the gable wall on the west end finished. Today it is a bit warmer so I will head out into the forest and cut and haul in fire wood, plan to make a post on fire wood making.

Every since I came to Christ I have been wanting to learn how to preach and teach in Christ’s name and to that end I have taken my family and myself to different fellowships with may different families that are in Christ. We love to fellowship and learn more about the kingdom of our Lord and one of the things I have been looking for is mature Christians that can teach others to lead. However we didn’t find any that had that blessing in them, so I turned to God to help we and I prayed and waited and looked.

Now here is I believe the hand of God at work, I had been praying and asking God to help me and on my birthday I went into town to get the mail and our regular town trip stuff. I picked up the mail and saw a letter in it from an outfit down in the USA asking for money for some kind of Christian training institute. I didn’t think to much about it as some how we seem to have gotten on the mailing list for this kind of thing. But once we got home I had another look at it and saw there was a website so I decided to check it out. What I found made me very excited so my wife had a look to see what see thought. We had found the Christian Leaders Institute and they train Christians to be godly leaders to carry out Christ’s work. I thought about it as I went over their different courses and read the founders book on home discipleship. I learned that he really tries to encourages the father to take the headship of his home by first  having a strong personal walk with Christ then lead his family in Christ and reach out and be a strong Christian leader in his community.

I was a very happy man to find other Christians that wanted to equip leaders to go out and work for Christ. I have often thought that Paul was a very well trained leader before Jesus Christ called him to do the work he did. I really wanted to get some leadership training before I step out into the the bigger body of Christ and the world. Now I have been given a full scholarship to take training, what a wonderful birthday present God has given me. I will try to keep up to date posts of the course as I go along, but keeping praying God takes care of his children all I had to do was put my heart with his.

In Christ

I’m not sure if this is new or not but the other day  Kaelynn and I where making some jello I think it was lime. We where wondering if one could make chocolate jello. So the other morning I tried it i took a box of orange jello and mixed it up and added some chocolate syrup to is and it turned out great. It kind of tastes like a chocolate orange, very good with cream.

We made a quick trip out to visit Jennifer’s family on the 25 and we had a photo taken to mark the trip, everyone but Sarah was up for it.

God Bless you all.

The Bogart Family

We had a little break from the Internet for a week or so as to the fact the computer blow out another logic board, I like a Mac computer for the big reason no bugs or very few I have never gotten any. But they can cost allot to fix,(thank God for extended warranty) if it break again the wife is going for a laptop I hope it’s a Mac. Hope to put up a few new posts now that we are back online.

I’m back

We started to build the West porch and we just about have it all framed and sheeted in, just the tin to go up now and finish the west gable wall. Then we will be starting on the North wall of the second story this will be a very interesting project as it will be an over hang. This is to give more room for the upstairs as we have now added a large school room that will also have the computer and library in it as my wife’s books are taking over the house.