Thanks to Dad Garrett, I have a few pictures of the church and our home to share with you until I find time to take my own and shoot the “tour” video I’ve dreamed up! Enjoy –
Our Savior’s Wesleyan Church
Our house from the front – this is what you’d see if you drove past on the street.
A portion of our backyard consists of this cement patio and swing! Very enjoyable!
Forgive the lack of updates. It’s still “quite a trip” moving into a new place, starting new ministry, making new friends, etc!
Since Sunday evening, my in-laws from Bluffton have been visiting, too – so we’ve been spending some great hours with them in our new surroundings.
Yesterday we ventured to downtown Milwaukee on our own without a “local” tour guide. We did very well, thank you. Enjoyed walking along the lake, visiting a sweet kite-shop, and a drive past Miller Park (Brewer’s Stadium).
Today we found “the mall” in Brookfield and enjoyed breakfast with Pastor Gerry and Wenda at “The Original Pancake House”. Mom and Dad Garrett will be heading home sometime tonight or tomorrow and we’ll settle into another “normal” schedule. My parents will be visiting in just a couple of days, too!
Our first SNL (Sunday Night Live) went pretty well this week. It was great getting to start new relationships with a new group of teens – though it is of-course overwhelming! I’ve had a couple of breakfast and lunches with students this week – those times have been very beneficial to me!
Still no pictures of the parsonage – sorry. I have hopes of giving a VidCast “tour” of our new home in the near-to-distant future, so hang on for that!
Thanks for loving us through this transition!
Keep praying for us, too!
07.01.07 – Final Sunday (Farewell Service)
07.04.07 – Dinner & Fireworks with Krupps
07.06.07 – Ella & Daddy on the Trampoline
My favorites:
We’re settling in just fine, thank you!
The master bedroom is nearly “finished”, though nothing has yet been put on ANY wall. Ella is IN LOVE with her room – wait until you see pictures of it! (you’d have pictures if I would’ve remembered to bring the camera over here to the office, and yes 1-minute away is too far to run over and get the camera!)
The basement is taking shape. We have our washer hooked up and working well. The garage is a mess, but that’s normal, right?
The kitchen is Jess’ oasis. She’s doing so well at making it “hers”! We forgot last night that we don’t have a microwave, so we’re going to get one today.
I just got off the phone with our new cable/internet provider – Time Warner. They’re hooking us up at home on Wednesday morning! So, regular-updates will happen shortly thereafter!
Last night we enjoyed fireworks in the nearby city of Burlington (no coat factory that I could find). I’ve never been so close to large-display fireworks as we were to them last night. Ella loved them and HATED us covering her ears during the booms!
A lot more work to finish today, tomorrow, and Saturday at the house. Our first SNL (Sunday Night Live) is on Sunday night and we’re excited about getting to know our students and investing in their lives. We definitely feel God’s guiding hand on our lives in these moments. Confirmation after confirmation that we are to be here – now is evidenced through conversations and God-placed words since we’ve been here!
Thank you for your prayers! Keep on praying for our family!
We’ve arrived and are “settling in”.
We left Warsaw this morning around 9:30AM. We pulled into Mukwonago just after 3PM and turned our clocks back an hour (we’re on Central time now!)
Sherilyn met us just off Interstate 94 and followed behind us the final 25-miles to Mukwonago. She’s been a big help, too, watching Ella while we’ve attempted to put some things away and keep our sanity. Sher will be here through Wednesday – and we are SO grateful to have her help during this transition!
We’re currently “relaxing” at Pastor Gerry & Wenda’s home. I don’t have my camera with me to update via pictures, but will take time to do that sometime soon. We’ll open our bank account tomorrow hopefully and work on finding a deal on internet for the house, too!
Thank you all for praying for us through this transition – please continue to pray especially for my beautiful wife! She is such a strong woman and has helped me during some of my roughest moments to-date during this transition! I have a new ministry-position to keep me busy for these next few weeks and months and Jess has the HUGE task of making our house into our home. She is already doing a fantastic job – and I know she’s as excited as I am about this new stage of life for us!
Somehow during packing up everything we own into boxes and then a truck I managed to hurt my back again. I rode in the truck with a hot-pack on my back for the entire trip and consistently pumped myself full of Ibuprofen to keep me from crying, but I’m hurting pretty bad right now and would also appreciate any prayers on my behalf, too!
Come and visit us in Wisconsin!
Here’s our new address:
Stevan & Jessica Sheets (and Ella!)
S93 W30580 County Road NN
Mukwonago, WI 53149
(interesting, isn’t it?)
