Time to catch up About a week and a half ago, we moved off campus to a small one bedroom, one bath duplex up the mountain from the Univ of the Nations campus. We are 6 miles and about 10-15 min away. No one on staff gets paid. Everyone actually pays to serve here except the volunteers who come for a few months at a time. We were praying about moving since more rooms were going to be needed for fall and winter semesters. We became aware of the front half of this duplex coming available and God opened the door for us to be accepted to rent it. Jim and I both work 5 days a week on campus and the rooms are not air conditioned and we were feeling the "heat" more and more. Jim drinks about 4 quarts of gatorade a day. He's so excited to have his new "used" maintenance golf cart and that will help alot. We are grateful for the cooler nites up the mountain for sleeping. It goes down to 63-65 degrees at nite and by the time we reach the campus near the ocean, it's 78 degrees and gets to 86 or 90. We were able to buy some cute used furniture from Habitat for Humanity and a couch from Craigslist. Jim is looking forward to being able to do some gardening in a large area the landlord said was his to do what he wanted. There are about 200 coffee trees on the property along with banana, mango, lemons, and breadfruit. Next door as we drive down the road there are chickens, goats, some ponies, and 3-4 days out of the month, there are about 35 cows that are released to graze on some of the pastureland our road goes through. On those days, we use a code to go through a cow gate so, technically, we say we live in a "gated" community. On campus, Jim continues to repair and remodel dorm rooms and offices. He is helping hang a new sign at the Urgent Care and put up a cell phone signal booster on the roof. I am learning more of the admin side of running the campus clinic and scanning records into the electronic medical record and being nurse on call for triage. We have clinic 3 days a week and myself and another nurse work with doctors who volunteers their time. Jim and I attend Mokuikaua Church in Kona. Sunday nite we start a DVD series for 13 weeks called the "Truth Project" from Focus on the Family. We are helping to lead discussion groups afterwards to challenge all of us to live by a Biblical Worldview. Our down time is spent reading, going to the Kona pool, and having friends over for game nights. We are looking forward to Alyssa coming at the end of September to do a 6 month school here at the Univ. Wow it was so sunny most of today and now it is clouding up and getting ready to rain again. These tropical storms are causing rain almost daily and the campus is doing some sandbagging around some of the bldgs due to the gushing water in the outside drains. We will close this chapter for now, until next time. Keep us in your prayers. Jim & Sherry