Fellowship and Fish
4/18/07 - 4th Day - Before Supper. Almost finished with the garden, about 2 weeks late. With the late freezes and all, it has been a challenge, but it looks like we're mostly done with the planting phase. We're also clearing some brush to lay out about an acre or so for pig pasture. Hope to start putting in the electric fence (solar charged) tomorrow or the next day.
Walked over to the Ante's today and saw that Logan has almost finished drying in their house and putting in the windows and doors. I'll be there will be some pics up at their blog very soon.
There's a lot of activity going on here in the community, and it is kind of neat to see. David finished his cross-fences, and the other folks are still working on their places as well. Looks like we might be getting to have a Lord's Day fellowship over at the Ante's pretty soon. Our plan is to begin rotating the location of the Lord's Day fellowship the way the Amish do. Here is the way the many of the Amish do it...
If the Lord's Day meeting is at your house, the men will show up sometime on the 6th day in order to "spruce up" the house where the meeting is held. The homeowner will have a list of things that need to be done. It could be fixing screens, touch up painting, fixing anything that needs fixing, etc. The women will often prepare meals that don't need cooking and have them ready for the meeting. In our community the women usually prepare the meals on the morning of the Lord's Day and have them ready by noon when we usually eat. In many Amish communities, they have some community benches that are set up for the meeting and meals. On the morning of the meeting, the men will show up with the benches and will move the furniture out and set up the benches for the sermon. After the sermon and meal, the benches will be removed and stacked in a wagon for the next Lord's day - and then the furniture is replaced by all the men.
This is our eventual goal, if the Lord wills - and it will fun to see it progress as more people get their homesteads ready.
In our fellowship, we have changed up our Lord's Day schedule starting this past week. We moved the singing up to 9 a.m., and will be having the sermon shortly after that. Then we have our community meal sometime around noon.
Looks like I'll be losing my two ministry students and work hands a couple of weeks from now. My 100% washout rate remains intact, unhappily. There'll be more work around here for me and the children, but we've done it all before, and don't expect to be too hampered by it. Right now, the children are out weeding the garden.
Fishing hasn't gone well this year. If the Lord wills, we'll try again tomorrow morning. Y'all pray the Lord brings us fish.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
Walked over to the Ante's today and saw that Logan has almost finished drying in their house and putting in the windows and doors. I'll be there will be some pics up at their blog very soon.
There's a lot of activity going on here in the community, and it is kind of neat to see. David finished his cross-fences, and the other folks are still working on their places as well. Looks like we might be getting to have a Lord's Day fellowship over at the Ante's pretty soon. Our plan is to begin rotating the location of the Lord's Day fellowship the way the Amish do. Here is the way the many of the Amish do it...
If the Lord's Day meeting is at your house, the men will show up sometime on the 6th day in order to "spruce up" the house where the meeting is held. The homeowner will have a list of things that need to be done. It could be fixing screens, touch up painting, fixing anything that needs fixing, etc. The women will often prepare meals that don't need cooking and have them ready for the meeting. In our community the women usually prepare the meals on the morning of the Lord's Day and have them ready by noon when we usually eat. In many Amish communities, they have some community benches that are set up for the meeting and meals. On the morning of the meeting, the men will show up with the benches and will move the furniture out and set up the benches for the sermon. After the sermon and meal, the benches will be removed and stacked in a wagon for the next Lord's day - and then the furniture is replaced by all the men.
This is our eventual goal, if the Lord wills - and it will fun to see it progress as more people get their homesteads ready.
In our fellowship, we have changed up our Lord's Day schedule starting this past week. We moved the singing up to 9 a.m., and will be having the sermon shortly after that. Then we have our community meal sometime around noon.
Looks like I'll be losing my two ministry students and work hands a couple of weeks from now. My 100% washout rate remains intact, unhappily. There'll be more work around here for me and the children, but we've done it all before, and don't expect to be too hampered by it. Right now, the children are out weeding the garden.
Fishing hasn't gone well this year. If the Lord wills, we'll try again tomorrow morning. Y'all pray the Lord brings us fish.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 4/18/2007 01:55:00 PM
1 Comments:
Michael, will be praying y'all catch some whoppers, and for all that other good stuff too. :-) Praise God!
Bill
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