The Center

Here are a few pics from the new building!  We are currently in the process of painting all the walls and redoing the floors but it seems to be moving along pretty fast!

We had the congregation come and write prayers on the walls before we painted

One of the prayers

This will be Nick's office

Sanctuary

Other side of the Sanctuary

Nick and Karriann painting the walls

We are all really excited about this project!!  Hopefully we will have some finished pictures up soon!

--Carmen

Snow!

It finally snowed here in New York! It's not nearly as exciting as what Colorado got but we'll take it!!! Can't wait til it snows again!!!!

Some fall pics!

Here are a few pictures of outside our house! It's getting colder here...Saturday the forecast is high of 45 and low of 38! Better get some sweaters out! :)

Autumn in New York

Well, the leaves are changing and falling here and the temp is dropping!! I love this weather so it's fine with me!!

The hurricane has caused a lot of flooding in the southern part of NY...Three Nazarene churches on our district have been damaged pretty badly. They have sent us pictures and it's just insane!! They are having teams come out and help but it's too far for nick and I to go right now! :(.

I have a couple different sub jobs next week at a school that's about 20 minutes from Livonia!! I am very excited because I figured I wouldn't get many jobs until October!

Well that's about it for now!!

Adios!
Carmen

Hurricane Info

So we were "in" our first hurricane! We didn't really think it would be too bad for us out here because we are quite a ways from New York City. We knew that the national guard and other people were waiting the storm out in Rochester so that they could go help when it was needed so we figured we were probably pretty safe. We only got the very edge of its path, which just included wind and rain and it was a lot colder than it has been here in a while. Never thought that we would have to worry about a hurricane being this far north but I guess you never know! :)

Nick and I went and walked along Lake Ontario last Thursday. I actually didn't think that you could walk along it, but there is actually a public beach and everything. We have some pretty cool pictures but they are on our phones since I forgot the camera. Once Nick gets home, I will have him show me how to take it off of our phones!

Well, I just thought I would give you an quick update!

Talk to you later,
Love,
Carmen

August

Sorry that it has been so long since I have updated!  We have been having a good summer!!  My parents got to come at the end of June...we got to see a lot of new stuff that even Nick and I hadn't seen before.  July 3 is their annual "Ring of Fire" around the lake. ( Every year they surround the lake with emergency flares.) Nick and I thought we better go check it out because seemed kind of weird but kind of interesting at the same time.  We were definitely glad we went!  The flares looked really cool along the lake but there were also TONS of fireworks!!  And tons of people, but Nick and I actually managed to find a good spot anyway.  We have had two community events recently.  One was a free music and ice cream night, there were quite a few people but most of them were from our church or Calvary so there weren't very many actually from Livonia.  The second one was an outdoor movie night and we watched "Tangled".  It was definitely a good turn out.  We had over 35 all together and only 10 of them were actually members of the church!  We are having another one next Friday so we'll see if that has the same kind of turn out! I have been searching for a teaching job...no luck so far but that's ok! :)  Just praying that God will send the right thing along! :)

I will try and post some pictures soon from some of the events!!

Love,
Carmen

May in New York

Well everything has finally started to bloom!  Everyone kept saying how pretty New York is in the Spring and it turns out that they were right!!  The lake has been ice free for a while now and that has been a really cool view for us as we drive through town! 

We had a great Easter week but it certainly was busy.  We had a Good Friday service that Nick put together which was the Tenebrae service or the service of shadows.  It was a really cool and powerful service and we got lots of great feedback from everyone.  We had an Easter sunrise service at the house of one of our great congregation members and then had another service at our regular time. 

This week is District assembly which started last night.  Nick is in charge of making sure all the media presentations look right on the screen so he has been very busy doing that and I am helping with the music tonight and all day tomorrow!  It definitely has already been a crazy time.  But it has been a good start so far! 

That's about all of the news I have for now! 

Love you all,
Carmen