Phase 5 complete

Phase Five of our House Reclamation Project was recently completed, thanks to an army of friends from every area of our lives from the past 10 years. Jenna and I are eternally grateful for the help we received from all of you who showed up this past weekend to help with the punchlist and cleaning up. We've had a strange sense that we are living in someone else's home, where light switches work, walls are painted, and the air quality is relatively healthy....its a strange experience tying up loose ends like that. Here are some pics:

Living / dining room:


janky front and back....

2nd floor bath.....

up the stair of seascapes to the 3rd floor

coordinating-dreaming-drawing

It is Saturday.

This morning I had the privilege of facilitating a cell coordinating meeting, in which all of the cell leaders in my crew get to meet up once a month, and we hash out how things are, how things might be, break some bread, encourage and admonish each other, with Jesus at and as our center. I have such a good group of people who want to grow, lead, partner, and let Jesus make something of this beautiful decay we are.

Then I met up with my good friend Joel, who I love talking with. We want to start a mission team under Circle Venture, which is the "service arm" of Circle of Hope. Its going to be about what the christians have to say about resource reuse and reduction......not hoarding what we have and know, harvesting rainwater, making local real food available to everyone, growing food on rooftops, teaching carpentry, .....man we've got to narrow this list down! Our next step is to do just that and make some partners and get a proposal together.

Then I set to work on finishing up some drawings for my bathroom renovation. I was interrupted by an amazing dinner that Jenna, my wife, cooked for me and Leann: Roasted chicken, buttered squash, and corn on the cob. whoa. so this is a sketch of the new layout:




We're coating the walls with some old wood we tore up from upstairs, and the floor will be this sweet sheet linoleum I'm pretty siked on right now. The toilet will be a dual-flush model, and the inside of the shower will be sheathed in white marble slabs I rooked from Circle Thrift's basement years ago. One free sink, one bought one. The cast iron tub was a craigslist find. Ive been inspired by my friend John to get as much as I can for free or cheap off craigslist. his whole house is that way.....and its pretty sick. well, back to work for me.