Keeping Cool comes with a price!

Ouch!  I just got our electric bill for the month of July/August, and it was a lot more than I expected it to be.  Usually, during the winter, it is about fifty dollars/month, and during the summer it is around one hundred twenty-five, but this last month's bill was practically one hundred fifty dollars!  Our house is only just under one thousand sq. ft., so it is not very big, but our A/C is about 28 years old right now(and I think that is the problem).  The person that I had come recharge our A/C this summer said that the unit that we have is a very efficient one for it's time, but I can't help but wonder how much more efficient a newer one would be.

Chapel Renovation Update

Well, things are moving fast in the chapel!  School has started, and it is not finished yet, but it is looking better every time I see it.  Bro. Winston is here more often than not, and is making sure everything gets done. 

Every day, I look forward to seeing what changes have been made. 

Chapel Renovation

There are still a lot of tools and things in the way, but the chapel is starting to take shape!  It is starting to look much better than I thought it would!  The trim on top is going to be all the way around, , and they don't have the lights finished yet, but it looks good!  A new pulpit is being made, and the carpet has been ordered.  I'm excited!  I may just go back to College so I can sit in the new Chapel every day! 

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

I've started to work on a hydrogen fuel cell to put in my vehicle.  I don't have the book, because I don't want to spend $300 for something that may not work!  I have worked over it mentally several times, and I think I have something that will work.  I put a rough draft of one in a car about a year and a half ago, and it turned off my check engine light!  The car didn't have a catalytic converter in it, and was getting a bad reading from the oxygen sensor.  Apparently it started burning clean enough to remove that code.  The only problem that I was having--after about an hour or so, the water was so hot that it was boiling, therefore putting a water vapor into the engine rather than the pure hydrogen and oxygen.  oops!  Well, let's see in a couple of weeks if it works.

Front of the Chapel

Back of the Chapel(sorry about the light in the middle!)

I'm getting excited about how the chapel looks!  They did most of the walls, and the ceiling all this past week.  They have a little over a week left, so pray that they get it all done!

New Bus Captain

Well, Surprises never cease to exist!  This morning, I received a call from Bro. Jones asking me to drive up to the church early.  He wanted to discuss something with me.  Shawn Parker is leaving to go to South Carolina in a few weeks, and Bus 6 needs a new Captain.  I had no clue that I had been considered, but it looks like they have chosen who it will be. 

I rode with Shawn and Yanis today to visit the route, and have started the process of learning it.  Looking forward to getting started on bus 6!

I love Youth Conference at Windsor Hills Baptist Church!

All of the teenagers that you see here made some sort of decision last night. Altogether there were 63 teenagers and adults. The decisions ranged from salvation to surrender to full time service, to giving up alcohol and tobacco! Bro. Hanks daughter was saved during the middle of the first session! Hopefully I'll be able to post a link to these services later.

Live BP Camera

Pretty cool! I don't know why it took me so long to put this up here. Right now they are doing some testing on the new "cap" they are putting on it, so sometimes it is a little off, or doesn't show anything at all. Just click on the title and watch!

Another Danger of Facebook

I don't use facebook, and probably never will. It is interesting that at a Youth Conference Meeting on Wednesday evening 7/14/2010, Bro. Rick Dawson preached about a few things that make us "Fleshly," or carnal. Facebook was one of those things, and he also mentioned that it was a growing cause for divorce in the United States. The very next day, This article showed up on cnn.com! Click the title "Another Danger of Facebook" to read the article.

Chapel Renovation

The Heart of Oklahoma Baptist College-that is the Chapel, is getting a face lift this month! For those of you who remember what the chapel looked like before--this is what it looks like now. Actually this picture was taken about four days ago, and they have the old windows on the sides covered and most of the room insulated now. The view is from the front of the chapel. The doorway in the middle will be the entrance with an office on either side. The door on the right is where the new sound room will be! No more sound men running around in the front of the auditorium any more!!! I do not believe they will be lowering the ceiling, but it will stay peaked. Anyway, I hope this has drawn a little bit of a picture for you as to what will be happening soon!