Good Morning!

We have been quite busy lately with a variety of situations. Lately we have been extremely busy with the youth ministry at our church, especially myself. Engage has been incredible so far and is growing at a healthy rate. We see about 1-5 new kids per week, as long as we do not take a week off. It has been truely amazing to watch the girls that I have been working with and exhorting, Jenell and Megan plus more, really desire God! God has been so good in their lives and has put a desire inside of them to start reading their Bibles and spend time praying, which was ignited in their lives through Stephen's discipleship class.

Right now I am spending a great deal of time working on the marketing aspect of Engage. It is a bit tricky to figure how to market this organization since there are so many different outlets to market towards. Each market is vastly different as well. I love marketing and have always excelled at it, so this is a joyful job to me. While I'm not figuring out the marketing aspects I am the counselor for the youth and their families as well as drama ministry leader. Basically I am using my three major strengths and enjoying it while I do so.

Besides that I have been spending time with my beautiful son, Jesiah. Right now he is crawling, pulling himself up on stuff, saying new words almost every day, and trying to walk. So far Jesiah hasn't gotten many bumps or bruises, but I am sure that is to come. I only wish it wasn't winter as he starts to learn to walk, because that makes it difficult to play outside in Michigan weather.

Another mini-news of mine; I am switching colleges. The online classes are just not working for me. I am disappointed by the lack of teacher involvement in the majority of my classes and the minimal amount of points you can earn, 600 points for 6 weeks of work. My plan is to switch to Delta. At the moment, I have not decided whether or not I will stick to Accounting or switch to Interior Designing. With accounting it would be a promised steady job, which I love to work. For interior designing I would be starting my own business and it would be rooted either in Midland or Ann Arbor. I have always desired for something that I can call my own, which owning a business would fulfill that desire for me.

The final news we have is that we are looking for a house. We have had a few oppurtunities but nothing that really screamed, "BUY ME!" We may have just found a home this week that we are willing to purchase. The house was sold in 2001 for $147,000 and is being sold for $99,900 right now. We hope to settle for $85,000-$90,000 on this home. The house is 2000 sq.ft. plus another 800 sq. ft. partially finished in the basement. The home is located in the township about two blocks from here across from an elementary school, so the neighborhood will not go bad. In addition to all this it sits on 0.36 of an acre which is a huge lot for the city or township. There would be room for the kids to play. Please pray that the house is in good condition and that we can settle for $85,000 on the house. That would be a tremenduous blessing!

We love you guys and miss you all who are not in Michigan!

Kaley Mayer.