A Semi Stormy Week

Storm clouds gather above the Seminary Campus as I take a 2 mile walk around the grounds.

This week we got to experience a couple of Southern Storms, and I have to say that they are nothing like a California storm.  You'll wake up in the morning to a bright and beautiful day, and it will stay that way until about 4:00 and then you'll see some clouds way off in the horizon, but being from California, you'll think nothing of it.  Then a half an hour later you look out side to see those far off clouds almost completely covering the sky above you.  It's pretty amazing how quick a storm can roll in over here.  

This week I was picking up a few items at what they call the Neighborhood Walmart (It only sells groceries, so it's just a Walmart grocery store.) and all of the sudden the music playing in the store was interrupted by a loud beeping noise.  It was the emergency weather broadcast, and it wasn't a test.  No one in the store seemed to be even listening to the emergency broadcast but me.  I quickly got my groceries and got out of that store because I didn't know how big the storm would be.  Everyone there must have thought I was kind of strange for actually listening to the emergency broadcast.  Well, I think that it was a pretty big storm.  When the rain falls here, you cannot call it rain drops.  It doesn't even start as rain drops, it just starts pouring down in thick sheets of water.  This makes it almost impossible for you to see out of your windshield.  My poor little California windshield wipers just can't seem to keep up.  The torrents of rain cause the roads to become almost immediately flooded with water.  Yet, no one seems to really mind this except me!  Then the lightning begins.  You Californians have never seen lighting or heard thunder like a good old Souther storm produces.  If you happen to be driving during a thunder storm, the sound from the thunder will actually shake your car!  If you're at home, like in our apartment complex, It shakes the whole building and causes the lights to flicker on and off.  I think that being a native Californian, I immediately think "fire" when I see lighting striking the ground all around me.  But, for some reason, I haven't seen any fires break out, only trees being destroyed.  I think it has something to do with so much water falling from the sky as the lightning is striking.  It really is a beautiful sight to see all the lightning lighting up the sky.  It really shows the amazing power of our Lord.  Well,  I am beginning to enjoy these storms, but I am not looking forward to my first tornado warning, give me an earthquake any day. :)

This week has gone well for Matt and I.  I guess you can say that we have fallen into somewhat of a Summer routine.  Matt gets up reads all of his textbooks, we have lunch, Matt heads off to work around 2:00 and then comes home around 11:00.  While Matt's at work I do my best to stay busy by working on crafts, organizing, and reading library books.  I have to say, that I am quite ready for these relaxing days to be at an end.  That's not to say that I don't appreciate them, but I am so used to constantly being busy that this kind of lifestyle is very strange and sometimes annoying to me.  But, I don't have to be idle too much longer.  This friday I go in for new teacher's orientation at Christian Academy of Louisville.  Then, next week I will be going in every day for various trainings, and classroom set up.  Next Friday will also be our orientation here at the Seminary.  Matt starts classes on the 13th, and that's right around the corner.  All of your prayers will be greatly appreciated as Matt begins his classes and learns to adjust to his schedule of classes, study, work, church, and family.  It's a busy schedule, but God has definitely been preparing us to do all this with what He had us doing these last couple of years in Anza.  Also, pray for me that I will be able to be a good support to Matt as he works to balance all of these areas in his life.  Thank you once again for all of your prayers, they are greatly appreciated.  The next blog should be a lot more interesting than this one, in that I will have a lot more news to share with you all.  Until next time, have a great week!

Video of Seminary Grounds

I thought you all might enjoy watching a little presentation that I put together of the grounds here at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  (Sorry in advance for the loud background music, I couldn't figure out how to turn the volume down on it when I was creating the movie in iMovie.)

Our Anniversary Week

This past Thursday, July 19th, Matt and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary.  I can't believe that it has been 4 years since we were married.

I am so blessed that God has given me such an amazing husband in Matt.  For our anniversary he surprised me and took me to lunch at a really good sushi place here in Louisville.  We also went out afterwards to get some coffee at a local coffee house called Quills.  We had a great time just talking with each other and reminiscing over the last four years of our lives together.  God sure has allowed us to do so much together in service for Him. 

I have also been feeling very crafty this week.  I created a picture chain for Matt's study room in our apartment.  I wanted to have a way to display the pictures of all our friends and family from California.  These picture chains allowed me to hang 48 pictures on a blank wall that we had in Matt's study room.

We like to look at these pictures and remember and pray for all our friends and family back home.  So, this has kind of become like our prayer wall.  Best of all, the pictures are interchangeable, so we can replace older pictures with newer pictures as we like.

I also was trying to think of a way to display some quilt blocks that I had made to match the bedspread in our bedroom.  You see, I love to make quilt blocks, but I do not like putting the blocks together into an actual quilt.  So, I came up with the idea to mount the individual quilt blocks to 18x18" canvas painters boards and hang the finished displays above our bed.  I am really happy with the end product.

I also decided that our front door needed something to cheer it up, so I began to look for tutorials online on how to make interesting wreaths.  My favorite tutorial for a summer wreath was this pinwheel wreath that I ended up creating for our front door.  It was actually very easy to make, and it adds some color to our otherwise white door. 

Then on another night, I decided that I needed a magnetic board in the kitchen so that I could hang my recipes on it while I'm cooking.  Once again I headed to the internet and found a really cute magnetic board made out of a cookie sheet.  So, I went down to the free campus thrift store and found a cookie sheet, and the headed to JoAnn's to get the rest of the supplies for the project.  When I was finished, I was very happy with how the magnetic board turned out.

I also learned how to make the paper flower that is in the corner of my magnetic board.  It was really easy to make, and the flower turns out so cute.  Here is the link to the tutorial on how to make this flower if anyone is interested.  

As you can all see, I found many ways to keep myself busy this week as Matt was at work during the afternoons at Chik-fil-A.  He is really enjoying his job.  He likes the guys that he works with, and the only draw back is that he comes home smelling like chicken every night. :)  I guess this is not too bad though if you like the smell of chicken.  I don't really mind.  

I start work in a few weeks, so I have to get all the rest of my craft ideas done before school starts.  Matt also starts Seminary on the 13th of August which is right around the corner.  We both go to Seminary orientation on the 10th.  I'm looking forward to this.  We'll finally get to meet everyone and start making some friends on campus.  I also can't wait to start my classes on Thursday nights with the Seminary Wives Institute.  

We have been going to a little country church in Campbellsburg and we are really enjoying it.  The church reminds us so much of our church home back in Anza.  The amazing thing is that Campbellsburg Baptist Church was started in 1801. Which makes the church over 200 years old.  It's pretty cool being a part of such an historic church, and the members there are so welcoming and excited to have us there.  We really miss everyone so much, and you are all in our prayers.  Thank you to all of my faithful blog readers out there.  I really do enjoy writing on this blog, and I hope that you all enjoy reading the entries.  

D-I-Y Picture Chain

The other day I was looking at one of our blank walls in our apartment and wondering what I could do to make it looks not so "blank?"  I love black and white photography so I began looking online for ideas on how to display your black and white photos.  Nothing seemed exactly right, so I took some ideas from a bunch of different websites and made my own way to display black and white photos as well as not make my wall appear so blank.  I call this project my picture chains.

Here is what the finished picture chain looks like

Here is a list of supplies that I used to make this project for under $40.00

• 48 4x6 black and white photos printed at Costco
• Black Photo Corners
• 3 sheets of black foam board
• 3 rolls of 3/8" black ribbon (18 feet each roll)
• Glue Gun
• 5 Glue sticks
• Yard Stick
• Quilting Cutting Board
• Small Ruler
• Sewing pins
• Scissors
• Foam Board Cutter
• Exacto Knife
• Hooks for hanging on wall
• A piece of card stock (This will be used to make a template)

Here is a picture of most of the supplies used for this project

The first step is to cut your foam board down to size.  I chose to cut my foam board into 48 5x7" rectangles.  You can choose whatever size rectangles you want in order to fit your pictures.  Just remember to cut the foam board larger than your photographs.  I used the yard stick to measure out the rectangles on the foam board.  I also used the yardstick as a guide for the foam cutter.  Also, don't forget to place your quilting mat underneath your foam board as you're cutting, so that you don't cut into your table.  (I purchased a special foam board cutter at JoAnns and it was definitely worth the price.  It was located right next to the foam board, and it makes your cutting time go by so much easier and quicker.)

Matt's muscles were great in cutting out all of these foam rectangles. :)

Once you have finished cutting out your foam board rectangles, you should have a stack of rectangles that looks like this: 

The next thing that you want to do is to make a template for marking where to place the photo corners on your foam boards.  I did this by taking a piece of card stock and tracing one of the foam rectangles on to it.  Next, I measured in a 1/2" from all the sides of the rectangle piece of card stock.  This gave me a 4x6" traced rectangle in the center of my card stock rectangle.  Next I took an Exacto knife and cut out little strips at each of the 4 corners along the traced 4x6" rectangle.  When I was finished, this is what my template looked like: 

Template for tracing corners onto the foam board rectangles

Next I took a pencil, and a foam board rectangle and placed the card stock template on top of the foam board rectangle and traced the four corners cut into the template on to the foam board rectangle with my pencil.  

After tracing all of the corner markings on to the foam board rectangles, I began placing the photo corners on the pictures and placing the pictures on to the foam boards.  I learned that it is best to put the photo corners on to the picture first like this:

Then you can carefully line the picture up with the corner markings that you placed on the foam board rectangles.  Once you have the picture lined up properly, you can press down on each of the photo corners to help the picture stick to the foam board rectangle.  

You will continue repeating this process until you have attached all of the photos to the foam board rectangles.  When you are done, your pictures should look like this:

I chose to use photo corners to attach my pictures to the foam board rectangles because this will allow me to change the pictures out if I want to.  For a more permanent mount, you can use modge podge to glue the pictures to the foam board.  You can even brush modge podge over the top of your photos and the foam board to make it really permanent.  

After all your photos have been attached to their foam boards, it is time to "chain" them together.  For my photo chains I decided to place 6 photos in one chain.  Each photo would be 2" apart, and the ribbon for hanging the chain would be 4" from the top of the first photo.  So, I cut out a piece of ribbon that was 80" long, and set it up like this: 

You can see that I am using my yardstick as a straightedge now.  I have taped both ends of the yardstick to the table so that I can line my pictures up with them and keep them all straight as I am attaching the ribbon to the backs of my pictures.

Now, I will begin attaching my ribbon to the backs of my pictures first with sewing pins.  I am doing this to hold the ribbon in place until I am ready to use the hot glue gun to permanently attach the ribbon to the back of each photo.

When you are finished pinning your ribbon to the back of all six photos, it should look something like this.  Notice, for my picture chain, there is 2" of ribbon between each photo.

After you ribbon has been pinned to the back of your photos, you can now use the hot glue gun to permanently attach the ribbon to the back of your photos.

I glued the pictures at the top and bottom on each side where the ribbon has been pinned.  In other words, I glue the ribbon down wherever I have placed a pin.

When you have finished gluing down the ribbon, your picture chain should look something like this:

I chose to make 8 picture chains in order to completely cover my blank wall.  You can make however many your wall needs. You can also put as many pictures as you want on your picture chain.  This craft is really flexible and you can make it to your own tastes.  

Matt bought me all of these supplies for our anniversary.  It was so nice to be able to have exactly what I needed to make these picture chains.  I'm able to be so crafty this summer because I have so much time on my hands as I wait for my new preschool job to start in August.  I hope you all enjoy this craft and are able to fill in some of your empty walls at home for an affordable price.  Happy crafting. :) 

A Quiet Week

This has been a nice quiet week for myself.  Which has caused me to put off writing in this blog until today.  On Monday Matt and I both went to our new work places to fill out forms and meet co-workers.  I was very surprised that when I arrived at Christian Academy both the teacher and the other assistant teacher that I will be working with were there.  This wasn't planned, (by people) but of course God orchestrated it.  We got to chat for a little while and we even got to go and see the 3-year-old classroom where we will all be teaching together.  The lead teacher also lives on the Seminary campus and her husband attends the Seminary.  They will be at the Seminary for another year, and then they will be off to missions training.  It's so exciting to be around people who are being trained to serve the Lord.  The other assistant teacher is a mother of a kindergartener girl who will be attending the academy next year. She is really nice.  Both teachers seem like they will be a joy to work with, and I think that we will all get along very well.  After finishing up at Christian Academy, Matt and I went over to Chik-fil-A where he will be working.  We didn't tell anyone that we were coming in, we just stopped by.  When we walked in, we were greeted by the owner, and he was happy that Matt had come, because the man that Matt would be working with had just come as well.  So, it was really nice for Matt to meet his manager.  He seems really nice--he has a wife and a little girl and he will be going to the Seminary as well.  We had a blessed Monday as God put us in the right places at exactly the right time for us to meet the people that we will be working with.  

One of the things that I have been working on this week is getting back into a schedule and working out a routine of daily exercise for myself.  It is so nice that I have a husband who loves to exercise with me--it is very motivating.  One of the things that I started doing was walking around the 2.4 mile scenic loop trail at Cherokee Park every night after dinner.  Cherokee park is just across the street from the Seminary, and it is an amazing park to explore.  We have also began alternating swimming at the Seminary's olympic sized indoor pool, 

The Indoor Olympic Pool at Southern Seminary

and riding our bikes in Cherokee Park  

The Scenic Loop Bike and Walking Trail at Cherokee Park

early in the morning (6:00 a.m.).  We don't do both of these activities on the same day, but we alternate swimming and biking between days of the week in the mornings.  It has been really nice to get up early and spend time with my husband before he starts his busy day of studying and working.  

At 2:30, Matt heads off for work at Chik-fil-A which is about 15 minutes away.  At this point, I go check the mail and check out what there is at the Attic (Which is the Seminary's free thrift store).  I know, so exciting right?  Well, it's quite a change from my busy lifestyle in California, and I have to admit that I do get a little bit restless sometimes.  But, I am enjoying having time to relax, read novels, sew, and just spend time being still.  The latter part is hard for me to do.  I am not a very "be still" person.  But I know it is good to just take time to be still and listen to God.  I am thankful that God is giving me this time of rest and rejuvenation.  I also make dinner for myself at around 6:00.  It is kind of strange eating dinner without Matt.  We have always eaten dinner together ever since we have been married.  But I am so thankful that God has provided him with a steady job.  I have been on a chicken fix lately, so I have been experimenting with different healthy ways to cook chicken.  Here is a picture of one of the chicken recipes that I used.  It was so yummy.

Healthy Baked Chicken Thigh with Scallions

After I eat dinner is when I go for my walk at Cherokee Park, and then I come home and read, sew, or check Facebook.  At about 10:30 Matt calls me to let me know that he is own his way home.  I have such a thoughtful husband who has always called me to tell me he is on his way home.  I think this started when we first got marred and he worked "down the hill" from Anza.  He called as a courtesy to me, so that I would not worry about him coming up that dangerous highway.  Now, he just always calls me to let me know that he is on his way home--very thoughtful.  Matt usually arrives home a little before 11, and he tells me all kinds of interesting stories about his day of work at Chik-fil-a.  I am trying to get him to ride a post in this blog about his work experience at Chik-fil-A, but no luck yet--I'll keep trying though.  :)

It has been pretty cloudy here all week, but no rain until just now.  It just started raining, and the lightning is flashing and the thunder is rolling.  The temperature has been really nice this week too, not too hot.  We miss everyone back in California, and the Western United States.  Thank you all so much for your prayers and notes of encouragement, we love hearing from you all.  You are all in our prayers.

My Job Hunting has Ended :)

CAL History - Rock Creek Dinner from Christian Academy on Vimeo.

I have been so excited to make this post.  I have been praying, as have many of you, that God would allow me to have a position in a private Christian preschool here in Louisville.  Last Thursday I received a phone call from Christian Academy of Louisville asking me to come in for an interview for a position opening for assistant preschool teacher.  On Friday, I went to the interview, and was very impressed with the school campus.  The campus is located in a very nice neighborhood in the east end of Louisville.  The large newly built brick education center houses grades preschool - 12.  There is about 1,500 students attending this school.  The interview went well, the only concern that the interviewer had with my resume was that I may be overqualified for the position.  Those are words that I have never heard before when I have been job hunting.  When I heard those words it caused me to think back to my first experiences of job hunting.

I was probably just about 18, and I was just entering college in Northern California for the first time.  I can remember filling out so many applications for all sorts of different kinds of jobs.  The answer was always the same from all the perspective employers:  "You don't have any experience or qualifications."  I can remember being so frustrated.  I thought "how in the world am I going to get experience or qualifications if I never get hired on anywhere?"  God was faithful then and gave me a good job after teaching me a lesson in patience.  This memory made me laugh as I sat in the preschool director's office and I heard her say that I was overqualified for the position.  (I didn't really laugh out loud, just inside.)

The preschool director was from California, and we hit it off right away.  She was so nice, and it was nice to be with a  fellow Californian--we just think differently than these Southerners.  At the conclusion of my interview, she prayed with me, and informed me that she would be seeking God's guidance on who to hire for the position over the weekend.  As I was leaving, I figured that I probably didn't stand a chance of being hired, especially after seeing the large stack of resumes on her desk of people that she had already interview for the job.  The preschool director promised that she would call me one way or the other on Monday, which is today.

That brings us to today, Monday.  I woke up this morning, wondering what the day would bring forth.  I had already talked with Matt at length about whether or not I should take the job if it was offered to me.  The pay wasn't very high, and it was only an assistant teacher position, not a teacher position.  We discussed that it would probably be best for me to have an assistant position right now, just so I could be under a preschool teacher who had been teaching for a while so that I could learn from her.  We decided that if the job was offered to me that I would say yes.  Well, the hours seemed to tick by today, but no phone call.  After 3:00 I just figured that I didn't get the job.  At 6:00 we sat down to dinner, and I was just telling Matt that I guess someone else got the job.  I was about to tell him that I was fine, because I knew God has something planned for me, when the phone rang.  It was the preschool director, and she offered me the job of assistant preschool teacher.  I told her that I accepted, and that I would meet with her tomorrow at 1:00.  Wow, isn't God amazing!  This school is a very large "Christian School Chain," so they offer really nice benefits to their full-time employees, and I'm really excited to meet the ladies that I will be working with.

Thank you all for praying so diligently for me to find a job.  All of your prayers were very much appreciated.  We serve a Big God who will supply all our needs.

D-I-Y Grocery Bag

This morning I woke up, and wondered, "What should I do today?"  I have so many job applications out for teaching positions, and now I'm just in the "wait 'till you here from someone" stage.  I began to think,  "hmmm I used to be pretty crafty before I got so incredibly busy with life,  maybe I still have it in me."  The other day I went to the "Attic" (The Attic is a free thrift sore on the Seminary grounds available to all Seminary students.) and I picked up some old curtains and a fitted bed sheet, thinking that maybe I would use them to make something.

I have been wanting to make my own grocery bags, and I found a really good online tutorial on how to make them, so I figured that I would cut up the curtains and fitted bed sheet to use as fabric for my grocery bag.  So, I sat down to my amazing Bernina sewing machine that an elderly lady gave me while I was living in Anza, and began sewing.  

First things first though, I needed a pattern to make my grocery bag, so what better thing to use than an actual grocery bag!

For all of you Californians this is a Kroger's shopping bag, which is the same as Ralphs out in California.

I quickly got to work cutting out my fabric, and sewing it together.  I had a great time.  It's been ages since I have sat down and sewn just for the fun of it.  Well, here is the end product of my labor today.

The cloth grocery bag is quite sturdy, and big enough to hold even this large teddy bear.

Sometimes, it's nice just to have a day to be crafty.  I sure did enjoy myself as I made this bag, and the best thing of all is that it didn't cost me anything but my time, (which I have plenty of right now.)  All in all it only took me about 2 hours to make this bag from start to finish.  It would be a great Summer project for those of you who are looking for a fun practical craft to make.  I think that even a beginner could sew this if they referred to the online tutorial which I linked to above.  

Fort Knox & The Patton Museum in Kentucky

Today Matt and I had to go to our bank which is about 40 minutes from the seminary.  We really like our bank so we don't mind the drive.  It was our first time having to go to the bank since we moved here, so it was kind of like a mini adventure.  The bank is in a city called Radcliffe, but what we didn't realize is that it is right next to Fort Knox.

I don't know why that I didn't realize that Fort Knox was in Kentucky, but as we were driving I saw the  building where they keep all of the gold, and I was so excited to see it, that I told Matt to pull onto the road that lead to it.  Then I realized that Fort Knox is an active army base.  So, we decided to see if we could go in.  We drove up to the gate, showed them our KY driver's licenses, gave them our SSN and they let us in.  We really didn't drive around too much on the army base, we didn't have a map so we did not know what there was to see.  It did feel kind of strange getting on to an army base so easy like that though.  On the way out of Fort Knox I got a few pictures of where we keep our nation's gold.  Then we headed up the highway back to Louisville.

As we traveled up the highway I saw one of those "brown" signs that said Patton Museum next right.  I was really excited, because I grew up with a father who was a General Patton fan.  Than I began to think, "why in the world would their be a General Patton museum here in Kentucky.  Patton was from California, and I don't remember him doing anything of any importance in Kentucky at Fort Knox."  So, as quickly as my excitement rose, it fell, because I figured it must be some other Patton from Kentucky who did something famous for Kentucky.  We decided that we would go in and take a look just to see what the museum was all about.  As we walked in the front door, this is who we saw:

For those of you who are not familiar with WWII history this is a statue of General Patton.  Once again I was excited.  I have been to the Patton museum in CA, but I had no idea there would be one here in KY.  It was a great museum, if you are interested in WWII history and Patton's life and part in this war. I couldn't resist getting this picture of Matt next to the general:

For those of you Patton fans out there, I'm sure that you will enjoy this picture of his actual four star general helmet along with his revolver.  An interesting fact about the helmet is that it was burned in the family home.  It was taken from the debris and restored but they could not restore the leather lining on the interior.  It was so amazing to see these items that Patton himself actually war during WWII.

At the end of the museum tour, they had the actual restored army issued limousine that was struck by the truck that eventually caused the death of General Patton.  Here is a picture of that car:

We had a great time at the Patton Museum in Fort Knox, Kentucky.  I can't wait to take my dad there, because as I said before he is a big Patton fan.  This will be one more reason from him to come and visit us here in Kentucky.  He also likes Muhammed Ali, and Kentucky has the Muhammed Ali Center in Louisville, this will be another reason for him to come and visit us.  

Seminary Days Chocolate Chip Cookies

There's nothing like a good chocolate chip cookie

I have been baking chocolate chip cookies since I was a pre-teen, and using the same recipe every time that I made them.  When we moved to Kenutcky a few weeks back, I tried using my tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe, and the cookies turned out dry and not very good.  So, it was finally time to find a new chocolate chips cookie recipe.  Once again, all recipes.com came tot he rescue.  I found a recipe that I changed just a little bit to turn out super yummy chocolate chip cookies.  My dilemma was that Matt loves his chocolate chip cookies cooked with butter rather than Crisco.  It seems that whenever I use butter rather than Crisco in the recipe, the cookies come out thin,  flat, and ugly.  So, I found the secret to making chocolate chip cookies with butter still look nice--cream of tartar.  Okay, enough talk, now here's the recipe that I've come up with.

Seminary Days Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons hot water

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar 

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (you can use whatever flavor of baking chips that you like)

1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water and stir in to the batter. Sift together the salt and flour and then stir into the batter with the chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls ( I used a cookie scoop) onto ungreased pans.
3. Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.

Yields 48 cookies (Medium Sized) 

I hope that you all enjoy this recipe, and that it works for those of you in California.  It works great over here in Kentucky.  Happy baking to y'all.

Mammoth Cave Kentucky

Julie in front of the Stalactites 

Matt in front of the Stalactites 

This past Friday, Matt and I headed down to Cave City, Kentucky.  The world's longest cave, Mammoth Cave, is located in this city.  It is a National Park, and we were excited to be able to go and see it.  When we got to the park the temperature was 107 degrees.  It was definitely a very hot day, but once we got down into the caves, the temperature was 54 degrees.  It was cold enough to need jackets. It was definitely a nice break from the heat.  We took a four mile tour of the cave and even ate lunch it what is called the snowball room.  I believe that our tour guide said that there are over 300 miles of mapped tunnels in the cave, and hundreds more that have not been mapped yet.  We had a great time at the park, and we ended the day with a nice meal at Cracker Barrel.  Kentucky is a beautiful state to visit, and we are truly enjoying being here.  

Matt was able to get the job at Chic-fil-a.  He will be working a night shift in the back doing food prep. He is excited to have this job, and we are praising God that he has given Matt work.  I can still hear all of our students at AVCS praying every day that Matt would get work.  Those prayers were not in vain, the Lord has now blessed Matt with a job.  Please continue to pray for me to find work in a teaching position.  I was offered a position at a downtown mission daycare center, but both Matt and I decided that this would not be a good fit for me at this point in our lives.  I have also been offered a tutoring position, and I just need to find a full-time position before I can let this tutoring company know what hours I can work after teaching in the day.  So, please continue to pray with me, that the Lord will show me what job He wants me to work while we're here in Kentucky.  

We are still seeking a church to call our home.  We have been attending the 9th and O Baptist Church, but we are seeking God's guidance on what church He would have us call home while we are here in Kentucky.  We would appreciate your prayers with us, as we pray for God's guidance in which church we should attend while we are here at Seminary.