O my aching body....

Wow this little update project has turned into quite a lot of work. I spent 2 full days floating, sanding, cleaning and painting the whole entire kitchen by myself while Guido worked and Chloe was in school. I'm not as young as I used to be but I can still do an awesome job with a paintbrush. We still have to install a cabinet beside the frig and are waiting on a few face plates and a cabinet door, but basically we are finished with the kitchen. Guido did such an awesome job, much of it very frustrating and laborious but we have so much more space and function ability. I hope Guido's mom and sister like it. The fotos say it all. Well I'm off to bed as it is 2:00 am and we leave for California in a few days. I will add more fotos of the apartment next time. Now all we have left to do is Jami & Chloe's room and were done with the whole place, just in time to start our prayer walks in the New Year. Oh and by the way I just felt like the Lord said "It's Time in 2009". Amen and goodnight.

Sending all of you our dear friends and family our love and blessings on this greatest of days. A day to gather and reflect on the many great and awesome things in our lives. We love you and pray that your day is full to overflowing with love, peace, joy, health and turkey too.

Guido, Joyce, Jami & Chloe

November 25th 2008

Wow where does the time go. Well slowly but surely Guido & I make our way to the finish line of the kitchen. By now many of you have read the newsletter and know that we started out on a small adventure to put the very large hot water heater on the balcony, move the frig, install a new sink and dishwasher and add a little counter space. What many of you might not know is that small adventures in Italy turn into very large projects which grow all by themselves into a life of their own. We are now into new tiles, opening walls, moving pipes, electrical outlets, venting, floating walls and moving and reinstalling the existing kitchen every weekend. Hopefully we will be done before our trip to California in 23 days.

Did I mention we had a major computer crash that I spent 2 whole days trying to fix and than a 3rd reinstalling windows and reloading programs. Every day His mercies are new, because we need them to be. Anyhow We just wanted to extend to everyone a very blessed Thanksgiving. This will be our first Thanksgiving ever that we don't celebrate in the traditional manner. One family we invited is going back to America in a few days and the other couple is having morning sickness all day long. Also the tile guy arrives on Thursday along with a cabinet and some doors. So we will be working on the kitchen and getting ready to paint instead of pigging out on all our favorite foods. Our thoughts and prayers will be with you all as we think about the pumpkin pie, Turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, fruit salad, football, family and friends. All our love from our family to yours. Bon appetite

November 7, 2008

Well here it is our first blog page. If your reading this you probably got our newsletter directing you to this page. In the future our blog will be our newsletter as we can regularly post and you will be up to date with our actions. Let me take this opportunity to say congrats on the historical new President, now it is time to pray, pray, pray for him and His family. He may be pro-choice and too liberal for you but he is young and the Lord can change his mind. A lot of christians were sounding an alarm because of our fight against abortion but the Lord can still move if we hold this man up and pray and prophecy over him. I think we stand as Lou Engle says as a hinge in history, may we swing in a direction which is pleasing to the Lord and brings blessing upon our country and the nations. May we raise up to the occasion and seize every opportunity to be a witness and a light in dark times. For those of you who stumble upon this blog you are probably wondering why we would call it O City of God, well it is the proclamation that the Lord had us proclaim over our City. We thought it was strange but I went on Anne Mendez's site (www.voiceofthelight.com) and see she just returned from Amesterdam where they are now calling it City of Glory. It appears that the Lord is having us start to speak life and truth, His truth over our cities and nations instead of the things that we see, or what people say about us. God loves to change names, He loves to make things new, He loves to reclaim lands and set the captives free. We speak over our city Montecatini O City of God and extend this over Italy.