November Newletter

Here is our November Newsletter.  

Also check out the new bicycle club I am starting: 

 Pedals in Prescott Bicycle Club

 

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Here's the plan

Wow!  It seems like things are moving slow but there are a lot of things in the works.  We have all the basics on our house now; water, electricity, and heat.  Now back to the remodeling project.  We are anxious to get it finished so we can start some bible study and community gathering stuff here. We are working on developing our partnership with Hillcrest's Youth Homeless program.  We will be mentoring some students, tutoring and helping to develop some activities and ministry opportunities with them.  We are helping out with the Grandview Park youth group and getting to know some of the youth.  Dana is tutoring one middle school student from the neighborhood and it looks like she may be helping a lot more in the future.  I am starting to develop a network of youth and community developers in our area.  

I am also developing a bicycle ministry program.  I am currently trying to figure out what this will look like and have got some interest from a few of the church leaders in the area.  There is nothing like it in the area.  There is not even a bicycle shop anywhere close. The concept for this will be training youth to repair bikes and sell them in the neighborhood while developing bike rides and events and possibly work with the city to create some safe spaces for kids to ride.  My plan is to get some of the ground work done this winter and launch the program in the spring.  

Here is where you can help -> Over the next 3 months or so, I hope to get a number of youth bicycles donated so I have some available when I kick the program off.  If you (or friends or neighbors or churches) have any old bikes you are will to donate,  let me know.  I can pick them up.

Blessed

Today is my 51st birthday.  Birthdays are reminders to me that God loves me enough to give me another year on earth to love Him and love others.  That's again what my agenda is for this year.   I can't help being a little overwhelmed by all that God has done in my 51 years.  Friends, family, church, ministry;  I've got it all!

Yesterday, the day before my birthday, was my grandson's birthday.  The kids want to call me "Gramps" after my grandfather.  He missed being born on my birthday by only a few hours.  Good for him; he has his own day.  This dude came out at 10 pounds!  Couldn't be prouder of Josh and Stephanie!

 Jadon Benaiah Trotter

Dana and I are truly blessed.  'Nuff said.

A few pics of the house

Most of the demo is done.  Now to start rebuilding.

Foyer (That's french for bienvenidos)

Living area; complete with old furnace and bicycle

Looking into the new kitchen

Foyer (used to be a kitchen!)

We love our front porch

Livin large...

Finally, we got our gas lines inspected and a gas meter put in.  Now we have hot water and don't have to go down the block to shower.  Now the only big thing needing attention is the furnace and we have no idea if it works or not.  I suppose I need to get that working this next month as well as insulate this old house.   I will continue to plug away on getting this house put together over the next several months.  We have decided that we should really get this place done so that we can have people over, start bible studies, etc.

I'm putting together a plan to get some youth to rebuild bicycles and sell them before Christmas this year.  collecting input and old bikes will be the first step.

Today we are going to visit Grandview Park Church.  It is their anniversary celebration.  I think it is their 121st year.