There are so many thanks that I would like to give. The first is to our Lord who has been so faithful to us. He has used so many of you all to bless us. I do have to specifically mention Bob and Jo Shute who have called and visited us multiple times everyday since our arrival helping us move in and get the house together. We are so grateful for all the support and very much look forward to having everyone in our home. We are also very much looking forward to church camp, thank you for your love. It is this type of display of love towards others that will help SGBC shine to Flagstaff and indeed the world.

Greetings from California for the last time! We are all loaded and ready to pull out tomorrow morning. Today was an amazing blessing of God's provision with a secondary trailer last minute (we needed more room) and about 40 people showed up to help us load. The Lord has been bringing all sorts of people we didn't get to say goodbye to or always see across our paths at stores or just out and about. It has happened so many times within such a short period of time, I start to laugh out loud each time we bump into someone new. The show of support today was such a great help not only practically, but will serve as a helpful emotional send off for our family. We are looking forward to family camp, I think my kids will be especially grateful to be around some friends. Rolling down the hill tomorrow will be bitter-sweet, but I am so joyfully expectant of what our God is going to do at SGBC! I know having a full time pastor is a milestone for the church family and certainly there is a reason for it yet revealed by God, as He uses all of us for the advancement of His gospel. To God be the glory in this and all things! Thank you so much for the support and prayers, we have certainly been blessed by them. See many of you in a couple days!

Thank you all. Alexander - that would be great. Your timing will be perfect.

Greetings from California. I realized that I could only say that once or twice more. Three days to go now and we are immersed in packing and details of moving. Just a note to say hello and we are doing well, if perhaps a bit numb. I think we are all looking forward to being on the road with everything in tow. Well off to bed. Pray for us that we will continue to keep our eyes on Jesus in spite of all the minutia, even in all of the details. Good night and may the Lord bless you.

God willing, a week from today at this time (9:00 pm) will have us passed out on the carpet of our house just a few blocks behind the church meeting place. This next week will be a frenzy of packing, final goodbyes, and loading. This coming Friday we will be loading up to pull out Saturday morning. Here is our travel plan- leave Oakhurst Saturday morning and plan to spend the evening in Barstow. (Going the speed limit with no stops it is a 5.5 hour trip, but with two labs, my dad's bad knees, Julia healing ankle, maintaining 55 mph pulling a trailer, and small bladdered children... we will likely turn it into a 7 hour trip.} The next morning (8/1) we will head from Barstow to Flagstaff (another 5.5 hour non-stop trip that will take us about 7 hours) arriving somewhere between 3-4:00 pm. I will plan to keep Stephen and Warren up to date with the occasional text message during the trip. We are all doing well. Sad, happy, busy, excited, tired but overall very encouraged to be heading your way. We had a nice send off from our church today. One of the elders was pleased at the thought of having a "sister church" in Arizona, perhaps that will be true as you will get to know some of them before too long. We love you all already and are working hard to get there.

Thank you everyone for your prayers. Today was a very productive day working together with the family. We were a good team. We are looking a lot more like we are ready to move. Our family worship time has been a blessing, and over above the stress, we all are beginning to grow through it to be a blessing to each other. We had a counter from the bank that was not great due to a wrong appraisal (comps out of our area were used), and a counter back with further negotiation and the appraisals from our area are pending a decision by this Thursday. Please pray for their acceptance or a fair offer back. We are rejoicing in God's blessing remembering how much provision He has given despite some of the frustrations. I am sure that Paul's missionary trips that included shipwrecks and imprisonments were potentially frustrating, but like God's advice through Paul, we are learning to become content in all things. We are so excited to be with you all. This coming Sunday our home church here will send us off with their blessing and prayers. We sure hope that you all can meet them as many will come out to visit. See you all in a week and a half!

Hello to all. Short update for you. We are in the midst of a whirlwind 16 days before we leave on the 31st. Our plan is to arrive Aug 1st sometime in the afternoon. We will unload the next day (2nd) and return the truck later that day. It's a bit of organized chaos, but we are working hard to get everything boxed and ready to move. We had a counter back on the house, but an agreement has not been met. We could use prayer for endurance and good negotiation results. We look forward to church camp, although we might just walk around like zombies with grins at that point. Anyway, we are so grateful for all the labor of love from those who went house hunting for us, the Carseys and Shute's especially Renee. Keep us in your prayers as we keep all of you in ours.

Well it looks like we will see you all in three weeks from tomorrow. We can't begin to tell you how much we look forward to being there with you all. Over the next three weeks, we will be quite busy so keep us in prayer for good attitudes and smooth transitions. The more we box, the more wonder where the stuff keeps coming from. Time for a garage sale I think. This has been a rich time of friends and goodbyes, and we are so glad that there is so much love among you as we are leaving a loving community here. We hope to link Oakhurst to Flagstaff with many visits from folks here. I look forward to being yoked with Warren and Craig as they have proven to be servants among you. We will continue to pray for you all. See you soon!

A prayer request and two praises. Julia needs to have surgery on her ankle due to some fibrous tissue that needs removal. She had some bone chips removed a couple years ago and this is a complication on the same ankle. We had two problems, we weren't thinking that our current insurance continued past the month of June and we weren't sure we could get her in for surgery since her surgeon is booked through the end of the month. In short order, an opening came available for this Thursday 7/8 (a patient was sick and not cleared for surgery by their doctor), and we were able to have our insurance extended through this month. God answered these other two items before we could even share them with you, but we would appreciate prayer for tomorrow's surgery and Julia's quick recovery. God is so good!

Greetings all! Thank you Christopher for the blog spot. Well, all is well at the Gindorf home. We had the privilege of having In & Out burgers with the Bearchells just outside of Fresno today. We are busy getting a schedule together for our move. We plan to be there feet on the ground prior to August 1st. We are very excited to see you all. We just about have a place figured out there...more to come on that. Bye for now...

Welcome to SGBC's new blog! This will mainly be for Pastor Gindorf's updates.