New stalls

While our dream has long been to be able to have an equestrian ministry here, there are several things that needed to take place before that can happen. One was the need for additional horse stalls. While the barn that we have is great, it was a dairy barn, and all the floors are concrete and the ceiling is just high enough for people and cows. Casey built a great stall for Rolex, and we were able to make a stall in the dairy barn for Fred (since he is vertically challenged), but that was basically all the room we had.

A few weeks ago a friend of ours who owns a septic service and sand/gravel business offered the services of a backhoe/front end loader for the day and he was able to grade the pad for extending the barn, and dig a french drain culvert to pull the water away from the existing barn and new pad. With the help of some great mission teams (1st Evangelical Free, Rockford, IL; Forks of Elkhorn Baptist, Frankfort, KY; and Calvary Church, St. Peters, MO) we are now well on our way to having a total of six full-sized horse stalls! We still have to get the rest of the roof on and finish the walls and doors, but we are certainly well down the road toward completion.

Thanks so much to everyone involved! Now if whoever the Lord is calling to be the Equestrian Ministry Director would just go ahead and answer the call...