Here are some of the pictures before during and after of the church parsonage..
New Hope Baptist
We are currently in Spring City, Tn. at New Hope Baptist Church. THey have an all purpose building that they built 5 years ago. THey have done a lot of the work already. The down stairs is all pretty much finished, but the second level still has some work to be done. So we will be here a few weeks helping with that.. We’ve already been here a couple weeks. Jon’s got the sheet rock hung and mudded and we painted today. So hoping to get alot more done this week. We have all been fighting all the sickness going around. THe kids have really been sick. So please pray for them to get better so we can keep on keeping on. 
Emmanuel Baptist
We are fortunate to be able to go back to Emmanuel for there missions day in January. Everyone at Emmanuel has become family to us. We love them all there. We went a week early so we could help with a few things in their gym. Jon built some stairs beside their bleachers, finished out some suspended ceilings and helped cover and hang the pads on the walls in the gym. AND DID I MENTION WE HAD SOME GREAT FELLOWSHIP..
Christmas
We had a wonderful christmas with 2 little kiddos running around this year.. Now Bella was more about the paper and lights it was still fin watching her.. Jon Caden ran full throttle all day long.. We loved every second of it. We pray you all had a wonderil one as well..
Cornerstone Roof!!
THe roof at Cornerstone was messed up in a storm. It had hail damage and shingles blown off. With the help of many guys from the church we put on the churches 100 Sq foot roof.
Finishing up
WE are finishing up here in PA… We have been for 6.5 weeks. During that time.. Jon put on a new roof; put new wood beams in the floors; reconstructed some walls; hung sheet rock in the dining room, office, kitchen, bathroom and laundry room; finished the sheet rock; primed; hung all new trim; put hard wood floors in two rooms; tiled the laundry room; put in new flooring, new cabinets, and counter tops in the kitchen; stomped the ceilings; hung new doors; put in new windows; and other odds and ends.. I think that sums it up pretty good.. So needless to say its been busy.. Jon the past couple weeks has really put in some long hours.. So pray he can get caught up on a little rest. Very thankful that no one was hurt during all the construction. We had the privilege of working with many men from the church who were a tremendous blessing to work with. Bro. Dale also helped almost everyday. One thing is for sure I dont believe that we will ever come across another man like him. He truly is a servant of God and a crazy character… We’ve heard many jokes.. With all the work we were able to help save the church a little more than $20,000 just in the labor part of this project. Thats a lot of money that would have had to have been spent and now can go towards missions and help in other areas. We have meet some dear people here who I know will be apart of our lives for ever. I thank God for all of them and how good they have been to us. We will miss them.
We will be heading out early in the morning to spend a couple days in east Tennessee then on home for a few days. We will start a roof at Cornerstone baptist next. Thank you all for your prayers.
BTW i went over to take the last of pictures but I was in the way so you will have to wait on the pictures of the finished project.
working in PA
Talk about busy we have now been here six weeks and Im telling you it has been a busy 6 weeks. The floors in the kitchen and bathroom were starting to rot out. The wood loggs that were the support had rot and beetles had eaten away at them. This house dates back to 1915, So there was a little more work than we initially thought. Since getting here we (Jon) has put on a new roof, put in supporting beams, knocked out walls, built in some more closest, hung new doors, hung new windows, put up sheetrock, finished the sheetrock,etc….. We (and yes we now..lol) just finished priming the walls. Today we are hanging trim and putting in the hard wood floor and kitchen floor. the cabinets and appliances are coming tomorrow. So there is light at the end of the tunnel. I cant wait to show you all the before and after pictures.. God is so good. There are so many things that could have gone wrong and God has had His hand in all of it and given everyone safety doing the work.. There have been many men coming and helping with this project. We so appreciate it. We know that most of them work full time jobs themselves then come here on days off and saturdays to work. I know that God will bless them greatly for it.
One thing about our ministry that I do love is being able to spend time with the people of the church and “really” get to know each of them. But it also makes it sad because we have to leave.. Jon Caden has made a dear little friend here. Her name is Ivy. He even had to wear cologne to go see her last night..hahahahaha NO WE ARE NOT PROMOTING THEM TO START THIS YOUNG, BUT IT IS SOOO CUTE..lol So he is already sad to have to leave her.. I know I say this over and over, but God is so good. I just can’t thank him enough for what he does for us. I am so humbled by His calling on our lives.
Summer
We left Mississippi and went home for a week. We then had to be in Johnson City at our Mission agencies annual meeting. It was great to finally meet many of the other missionaries who are on the board with us.
My dad was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago. We knew that he was going to have to have surgery we were just waiting to find out when.. Jon and I were praying that it would be before we headed to Pennsylvania. Thankfully dad had the surgery the week after our meeting at Beacon. So we headed to Vanderbilt for his surgery. Dad’s surgery was a success and at this point it looks like they got all of the cancer. His cancer was in stage 3 and it was cartilage cancer. We found out that if it had been much longer when we found out that it could have been much more serious. the Cancer was trying to come out of his hip and it would have instantly attacked the liver and heart. So thankful for the Lords protection over him.
He is home and recovering very well.
We pulled in to Moscow, PA August 1. We will be here this entire month and I am sure some of September. Jon is helping remodel the church parsonage. We have been here almost 2 weeks and they have already fixed all of the flooring problems, gutted everything, most of the elctric is done and the house will have a new finished roof here is a couple of hours. God is doing some great things in our lives and we are so thankful and excited. We will share more about that Later.. We always thank you for all of your prayers. Here are some pics of some of the work thus far.. and a few pics of the kids..
Immanuel Baptist Church —— this was supposed to be posted a month ago..
We are in Dennis, Mississippi right now. We are helping with some of the remodel of their gym. This past week has been tearing out and jon re-did some of the plumbing and electric. They have also had VBS. Jon Caden was excited to be able to be apart of it.
Isabella Alisa Keeling!!!!!
Jodi was induced that Friday morning at 5:00 a.m May 20, 2011, At 9:00 p.m. that night the doctor informed us that Jodi was not making the progress that she should and worried that we might possibly have to have a c-section. That was something that we did not want to do. Seconds later Isabella’s heart rate dropped and they had to do the c-section immediately. We found out that the umbilical cord was wrapped around Isabella’s neck twice and that’s what was causing the non-progress of labor. If the doctor had pushed it, there would have been a very good chance that Isabella could have been born with brain damage or even possibly died during the delivery. Also, during the c-section the doctor found a huge hernia in Jodi’s stomach. So the doctor was able to take care of that too. We are just so thankful how God protected both of them. She arrives May 20, 2011 at 10:36. She weighed 8.6 lbs and was 21 inches long. Thank you for all of your prayers and concerns. Jodi and Isabella are both doing good. Can’t believe that she is already a month old.
We are in Dennis, Mississippi now. We are helping a church with some demolition and a little remodel in their gym. We will be here a couple of weeks then head to East Tennessee. We will be in Pennsylvania the end of July and all of August working on a church remodel.
Here are some pictures of our sweet little Bella!
