Red Bird Mission

This past weekend 33 people of various ages from the Florence and Bellevue Vineyard travled to Beverly, Kentucky to Red Bird Mission. The goal was to help those with a basic construction needs.The projects included putting shingles on a roof, dry wall,building a handycap ramp,putting in a new shower(and bathroom),putting in a new floor(at the onsite doctor's home). Almost all the projects were completed, but with some rainy weather, and some other unforseen problems not everything got done. It was a great weekend, and a future trip is already planned for March '09.

The mission has ministered to the people of Appalachia since 1921. And with love and support it will continue into the future.

Walk to Emmaus

Last weekend I had one the most awesome Christian experience in my life. I was sponsor by my beautiful wife to be a part of "The Walk to Emmaus". It was so life changing(eternal changing)it was amazing.
I also met the greatest group of guys all from Northern Ky. We laugh uncontrollably, and cried from brokenness. Our guys ranged from 21 to 79, and we were all ministered to. The were powerful testimonies that moved your heart, and jokes to make laugh till your side hurt. If anyone reads this post. My hope and prayer is for you to be able to participate.

Hurricane Ike

The remains of Hurricane Ike smashed the tristate with winds up to 80mph,ripping trees out of the ground and tearing the roof off a hanger at the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport. Over 1.1million households and businesses had no electric on Monday the 15th.Number of roofs were damaged with shingles and gutters being torn off. Houses and vechiles were also dameged when trees fell on them.

The Big Move

Things are happening at the Big FKI. My department is in the middle of a big relocation. And it is to a new office in the facility. Wow, what a work out! It is so hard to realize that you can accumulate so much stuff.

Govenor Bert T Combs

Here is an article I read of Bert T Combs. It's a good read, and since he was a Governor with the same last name made it even that more interesting. As he stated, he was no saint, We may not be a direct kin, but we Combs's believe we are related some how. He was in office when I was a couple years old. He was able to accomplish a lot for the state of Kentucky in education and transportation. He was a man of the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and he never forgot where he was from. http://www.appalachianheritagealliance.org/BertTCombs.htm

Florence Freedom

Friday night was Alexandria night at the Florence Freedom baseball game,http://www.florencefreedom.com/ . The Florence boys were on a roll, they had 4 or 5 home runs. The final score was 14-4. It was a great time, and for the price you can not beat it.

"Harold"

The world premier of the new release movie "Harold" happened last weekend in Chicago. It is a movie of a teenage boy w/premature balding. The film was co written by Cathy's brother Greg, and T Shawn .... Unfortunately we gave it a rating of a 5 out of 10. It wasn't the greatest movie, but we had great weather, and Chicago was beautiful and busy. While there we did a little site sighting since Cathy had never really been to Chi town.