Veggie Oil Ratings

So I’m not sure if anyone has noticed, but a while back we added a segment on the left hand column of our website called “currently running our RVs on vegetable oil from . . . “  Next to the name of the restaurant we pumped the grease from is a number in parentheses.  Tim [...]

Recharging

So we spent 5 days at a friend’s house in Sparta, MI, just outside of Grand Rapids.  It was a great time of vacationing and recharge for all of us.  I think we all had some good time of sleeping, watching football, eating, reading, having quiet time with Jesus, fishing, and playing on all the [...]

Reba Place

Jenn and I had the awesome opportunity to stay at Reba Place Intentional Christian Community for the last week and a half. I have never felt more welcome by so many different families and individuals than as I did at Reba.
 
Reba Place is an intentional Christian community located in Evanston, IL just north of Chicago. The [...]

Jesus People USA

The Coulombes had a great time at Jesus People USA last week!

We were welcomed by Anna, the gal in charge of hospitality of volunteers and guests, and directed to our humble abode that our family would be living in for the next 7 days.

We then took a couple days to settle in and get adjusted [...]

Helping out at Cornerstone Community Outreach

We had a great time helping out at Jesus People’s homeless shelter and food bank.  They have a food bag program on Wednesdays and let folks go through and fill their sacks with lots of packaged foods, some produce, some meats, and possibly some eggs, cheese and milk.  Random grocery stores and other food businesses [...]

The Big Buster Fiasco

If you haven’t been paying attention to the news from Illinois, it is raining in Chicago.  Day and night, night and day it is raining.  Here is a picture of the flooding.

So we needed somewhere to park Big Buster because we were headed to Jesus People USA for a week, and there isn’t much RV [...]

Chicago

We’ve had a wild start to Chicago!  Finding places for our rvs has proven to be difficult but I think we are both finally situated in Evanston, just north of Chicago.  We have been staying with the folks at Reba Place (an intention Christian community) and they have been very hospitable to us!
The plan for [...]

God appointments

Yesterday was full of God appointments!  We were able to hook up with the Urban Vineyard church in Chicago.  Pasor Ray welcomed us to park in their parking lot (even though it ended up being too small and we scraped their sidewalk trying to get in).  And lo and behold, the small group of folks, [...]

BBQ at T.B. Watkins

So…it was a little different this time around.
We went down to T.B. Watkins again (the government-funded housing community) with the possibility of taking a bunch of the youth from CCC again.  Tim and Jenn had made a trip to Costco yesterday for burgers and dogs so that part was prepared and ready to go.  However, [...]

Cherith Brook

We had a great day yesterday, working with the folks over at Cherith Brook, a hospitality house in the tradition of the Catholic worker.  Eric, one of the founders of the house, is a Presbyterian pastor.  He lives there with his wife Jodi and their two kids, as well as Steven, who has retired and [...]