Matthew's Cafe Community Church

I thought I would post some pictures of Matthew's Cafe. We have been in our new building for about 4 months. As many of you know our Church had a fire April 13, 2007 and it destroyed everything. We were meeting on Sat. nights at another church for almost a year. It was neat to see the body come together and get through this difficult time of change and uncertainty. The building is still a work in progress and we are watching it change every week. It is neat to see the work God is doing in the church building as well as in the people. We are excited to see what God will continue to do and what direction he is going to take us. What really spoke to us as a church is when a Chico paper listed the top ten things in 2007 that impacted the community, the fire at our church was on the list. That showed us that what we are doing at Matthew's Cafe is impacting the community, which is exactly what we want to do as believers.

ALL-STARS

And baseball season continues. We have two all stars Ethan is on the 9-10 year old team, and Valor is on the 11-12 Year old team.

Fires in Butte County

Please be praying to families in Paradise and Chico. Many are evacuated and some have lost their homes from the fires that are happening right now. The fire dept. is getting it under control but not without much distruction and heartache. This has been burning for 4 days now.

Summer Fun

Becky was in town again for a few days so we went to the "Bear hole" swimming area in Upper Bidwell park. We took our puppy Gabby too!

Our family

This picture was from Easter. In front of our house.

For some reason it wouldn't get me back to the page to put this picture on the side with the rest of them (I'm still learning) so here is Jadon

OK well I have decided to try to figure this blog thing out. I am getting the hang of it (I think). This is going to be a great way of keeping in touch with family and friends that we have moved away from or ones that are close. This one will be the longest blog I promise.
I cannot believe we have been gone from So. Cal for almost four years (This July 31, 2008). Wow how time flies. So much has happened in just four years. I will sum it all up hopefully in a few sentences. We move up to Chico to partner with the Wallings and Matthews Cafe, to start a college age bible study, and did for about 1 1/2 years. Then God had other plans he moved Jay into the leadership team at Matthews Cafe and now He and Terry are co-pastors at the church. God works in ways we never expect. About 1 1/2 years after moving up here we found out Jay had Hodgkin's disease. That is a praise and a long story in its self, how God worked through that and the amazing blessings that came from that. The amazing stories we have of God's blessings and miracles. He is still cancer free 2 years later!! Praise God. Our boys have grown so much we almost have a teenager. Valor will be 13 in Oct., Ethan will be 11 in Sept., Jadon was 8 in Feb., and Breandan was 4 in Feb. Sheri is still staying home with Breandan but he will be in preschool next year. We have found the most amazing Charter school. It is the best public school that we could hope for for our boys. It is K-8th, so all kids will actually be there at the same time.
There are so many more blessings and hard times (we never want to forget those "learning experiences") so hopefully I will be able to share the new ones as they come and we know they both will. As long as I can keep up with this blog. I hope to connect with lots of friends also old and new. For now we pray that everyone is doing great and living a life full of his blessings.