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Safe and Sound

Posted by chris_jones on Friday, June 19th, 2009

As some of our friends and family may know, we have been praying for a new vehicle for some time now. We have enjoyed our years with the our blue Dodge Caravan, but the time came that we didn’t know if she would be able to keep up with our traveling lifestyle.

This spring, God provided the opportunity to purchase a more reliable vehicle! After looking for the right combination of affordability and reliability, we found our ‘99 gold Saturn Station wagon! It is not an automatic…. so this Mrs. Jones has to learn how to drive manual! Look out world! I have only conquered one hill since- so needless to say, I am slow learning. It’s easy to say at the moment, but it is true that God is Jehovah Jireh: The Lord that Provides. After a good cleaning and the official Apple sticker in place on the back window we took her the ultimate test: The 2009 Jones Summer Road-Trip.

Over the span of a week and half, we stayed with family in Oklahoma, drove through Texas, NewMexico, ran out of gas in the desert of Arizona, spent precious time with friends in Southern California, and had the privilege of taking the wedding pictures for our friends (now) Hartzels! We are enjoying our time here in Livermore, California, before heading out to Winona Lake, Indiana to spend time with our friends and Church Family at Christ’s Covenant Church for the rest of our break. Please be in prayer for us, as we start the rest of our Road Trip on July 6th!

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Some (Happy) Holidays

Posted by chris_jones on Monday, January 19th, 2009

What a rare blessing it has been to see both our families within a month! First we spent Thanksgiving in California with the Jones clan and then off to Oklahoma for time with the Shaw clan. It was filled with surprises of seeing “long lost” family members (Scott Shaw, I am still mad at you;) and much needed relaxing. It is so very strange to come “home” and see change going on in the place we grew up. Chris is better at change than I, but God is of course helping me through that.

After a 15 hour drive Christopher and I kicked off the 2009 year with the Christs Covenant Church youth group Winona Lake, Indiana. Feels good to be back and we are looking forward to sharing with others our ministry and catching up with our friends here!

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Independence Day. Yay.

Posted by chris_jones on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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The fourth of July is always a great time to drink canned beer, have roman candle wars, light illegal mexican fireworks, and get DUI’s. We didn’t do any of those things this year, but we still had a great time. How, you ask? Steak, friends, live music, and sweet fireworks on Winona Lake. The last few years we have spent with Jon Potter on independence day, and this was no different. Jon manned the grill, and everyone brought meat and assorted american salad dishes. Pasta, potato… um, is there any other american salad dishes? Well, anyways… It was a great time, and fireworks on Winona Lake are always amazing. They set up boats out there on the lake, and that is where they are all done from. GREAT view from the park right across the street, only about 300 yards away. The whole community was chilling in the park during the firework show, and there was actually two shows going on simultaneously (on the same lake!). Freworks are hard to take pictures of, but I did try… Check out all of our pictures of the events of the day here.  MasterWorks is a full traveling orchestra, and they played a live show out in the park for the public. Great group… not our favorite kind of music… but quite enjoyable. They threw in some Show Tunes to please the crowd… but Evie and I could both tell that they were very well practiced.

It is crazy how close our move date is approching. Hopefully, we will be able to return to Winona Lake for the same holiday next year, continuing the tradition we have seemed to start with the Potter family! Our move to Missouri (August 12!!) will really only require us to be in Missouri for the school year, the summers to come will be reserved for spending time with our church families before we actually go overseas. I am already looking forward to next year’s Fireworks on Winona Lake! July 21 will be my last day working at Lifeline, and July 20 is our last day in our current apartment! The last rent has been paid, and soon we will be on a crazy housesitting spree eagerly awaiting departure. We’re both a bit nervous as we are still curious to see how God will provide financially for this coming year, but we are excited because we are pretty sure that He will, and these are the next big steps on the God’s path for us. Very exciting stuff.

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So we went on vacation.

Posted by chris_jones on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I should have posted this quite a while ago!
We have been in California for the last two weeks, and it has been an amazing break from the norm in IN. Wow. The batteries are completely recharged. Hopefully the weather has turned for the better in IN (I am in the airport waiting for our flight to Chicago as I write this); We forgot how nice the weather was in CA, and now realize how much of an effect sunlight has on mood! It has been a great time to unwind with family and friends.
We have tons of pictures of the trip, visit the gallery to check them all out… click on the pictures above to take you there, or just head on out to the gallery by clicking the “photos” link up at the top of the page.
Some highlights of our trip were a four day Baja Cruise and a San Francisco trip. We visited San Francisco for some low-priced Dim-Sum (all you can eat for $5.99!), 1$ stink bombs, and the rest of the chinatown deals! We all had a blast and (most of us) really dug the sesame balls (chinese donuts)! On the cruise, we visited the SanDiego zoo, Catalina, and the shopping district of Ensenada Mexico. It was a great time with the whole family since the summer after we were married. All of the Jones brothers were in the same state for the first time in too long, and enjoying their company was a great time. The youngest (Kyle) now works at Peet’s Coffee & Tea, and seems to enjoy it and is doing fabulous as a Junior in High School as well. Andrew is dating a pretty sweet chick while going to school full time for Biblical Greek (at Multnomah Bible College in Portland, OR). The ‘rents are up to the same old… just doing the work and school daily grind stuff.
We spent a considerable amount of time with some friends from bible school ( Jag and Abby Dunn). Some great times with old friends, we are sad to leave them behind us in cozy California, but everyone needs to get back to real life unfortunately. Our time with these old classmates was very encouraging as we talked quite a bit about the how and why of Church partnership and support. This couple is in nearly the same position as us -VERY excited and determined to be overseas… but without the means required to get there. Developing a support base is very time consuming and can often be deeply discouraging; Our fellowship with this couple helped put things into perspective a bit better, and took the edge off of the loneliness we often feel. We are not the only ones who are going through this process of waiting and prayerfully seeking provision for the path ahead.

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So I have got a ton of pictures to add.

Posted by chris_jones on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Finally, I got around to getting all our pictures up. From our Easter-Eve cookout at the house (That’s Dad on the Amazing Tri-Tip Action! Beer and Hickory Smoky Goodness!). On Easter Morning, Mom threw together an Easter Egg Hunt, and we went nuts for 3 minutes locating all of the eggs. Pretty crazy times. Thanks for looking at the pictures

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