Storms

This week I have talked a lot about storms and trials. We each have our own storm that we are going through and we get to choose how we are going to respond. I know that our church is heading off giving the glory to God. A lot of people are watching in the community and around the nation to see how this church - who may have lost the "building" will respond. Will we hold together?

If you haven't looked at Parkview's website - do it for the pictures, videos and articles. There is a video (Hold On) that shows the flooding and the tornados but also the church history. Drew has been featured in many videos/pictures sandbagging. (He is also very cute!) Ally and Jason are also in there, but you have to know what they were wearing. Ally has on a pink shirt shoveling with her back to you and Jason in a gray and green shirt on right watching a sand bag getting filled. He is in there more in the groups of pictures. I managed to escape most cameras which is good by the way I looked by the end of each day.

Even though we have not been at Parkview for long, it has become our home and family. I can't wait to see what God will do with all of us in the future as we live missionally in Iowa City and the world.

But speaking of physical storm we had another one go through on Saturday afternoon. It only left us with a little more than a half inch of rain - those of you outside of IA probably don't have rain gauges, but all of us do here! The sirens were going off and we were under the stairs for awhile. Most of the storms has come at night so this was a rare chance to get pictures of how much water was everywhere in just a few short minutes.

It's a comming! I love black storm clouds rolling in.


Our friends had to pull over since they couldn't see the road. You can barely see the backyard neighbors.

So much water so fast out the rain spouts

No wonder no grass grows there!

Showing the kids hail for the first time. Ally tried to save it like all kids do!