Scattershooting on Prep Day

7/18/08 - 6th Day - After Breakfast. Preparation of the Sabbath. Good Morning, Y'all. Well, I have talked to Jim (Jim is my friend who has cancer) in Pennsylvania and he agrees that, though he would love for me to be able to go up there and help/visit again, it would be best if we did things another way. As I mentioned in a previous post, it would cost between $2000-$3000 for us to travel up there again to help on his roof, and almost all of this money would go to hotels and gasoline. So here is what we are going to try to do (if the Lord wills). Those who have offered (or who might be able) to go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for a few days and help with the tear-off of the roof, I will be providing you the dates and information very soon on all of that. Hopefully we will still be able to provide 9 or more people on site for the tear-off. Meanwhile, I will be bulldogging and pressuring my private email list to just go ahead and send money via donations so that we can give the money that would have been spent on travel, etc., directly to Jim to pay for the new roof. This is a special ministry outreach to a brother who did everything in his power (during his health) to assist us in getting started down here and on our Agrarian walk. If you, your group, or anyone you know can help with the tear off (sometime in the first week of August), then let me know asap, and I will get all the details and information to you in order for you to help in that way. I am convinced that we will be able to send brother Jim well over the $2000 we spent in gas and expenses for the last trip up there, and I know how much that amount of money will help Jim during this time of need. IF you can, please email me privately and let me know the amount you will be sending, so I can get an idea of how much we (as a family of Christian Agrarians) will be sending to Jim. That way Jim and his friends can make plans for purchasing the materials for the new roof.

I hope you have had the time to listen to the Gelassenheit series of sermons. Gelassenheit is a term used among the Amish and Mennonites and it loosely means "Submission" or "Yielding". Here are the links to the first two parts:

Gelassenheit (Submission and Yielding), Part 1 (audio) (Sermon Notes)
Gelassenheit (Submission and Yielding), Part 2 (audio) (Sermon Notes)

The third part should be available later today linked on the front page of BiblicalAgrarianism.com

Here are some morning pictures. These pictures are so bad because my camera stopped working some time ago (it was no good anyway), and I am taking these with my camera phone. This first picture is of the cabin. I call it "Morning Cabin":


Here is Danielle browning up some potatoes and onions. I call this, "Morning Breakfast":



This next picture is of our back road that leads back to the creek and my office. I call this "Morning Back Road":


This one I call "Morning 2nd Root Cellar that we are digging next to the cabin hoping the cabin doesn't fall into it before we can get it finished":


Of course, this one is called "Morning Pig":


Ok, enough of that. If you want to send anything (except hate mail, I prefer it digitally), here is my snail mail address:

M. Bunker
PO Box 58
Bangs, Texas 76878

Your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker