Umm, I had a baby and moved to Montana....

As you may know we have made a lot of changes this year, like having a baby, moving the across the country to Montana and we have started living on one income. Why have we done these things? Well we had the baby because he is so cute, and have moved to one income so I can stay home and wrangle that cute baby and we moved to Montana because John was offered his dream job, a job that we have been praying for, for two years. It may not have been in the location that we expected but it was without a doubt the job we were praying for. John is working with youth in our neighborhood. He hangs out with them after school, takes them to Younglife activities, meets their families and tries to invest in their lives. CLDI (Community Leadership Development Inc. the organization he works for) owns a house on one of the rougher streets on the Southside and John is working on renovating this house to become a youth spot. Where they will have a computer lab, homework help, cooking demos, and general fun. You can read more about CLDI here http://cldibillings.org/.

We know that a lot our friends and family are in the same boat as us, the budgeting, pinching pennies, and stealing your parents netflix password boat. Some of you may even be living in your friends basement like we are. Which we love. But we are lacking two things. We have stretched out budget so tight John is selling his plasma like a college kid and we are still short 360.00 a month and we are asking you for help.

While we are not strangers to the support raising front, it has been a long time since we have done this, therefore we are trying to start a new base list of people who are interested in supporting us and the ministry John is doing. The 360.00 we need breaks down as follows, one Medical Insurance for John and me, Caleb is covered so don't worry about that. Two a membership to the YMCA. Why do we need this you may ask? Well maybe it's because I am staying at home now so I am couped up more or maybe it's because Montana winter is longer, but I feel like I am living in a Laura Ingalls Wilder book, and we need and indoor place to play to keep mom from going crazy.

If you are interested in joining us in our endeavours, to be neighbors, to people on the Southside of Billings then please send me your e-mails, your addresses and your phone numbers and we will be in more formal contact with you. You can private message me on facebook or e-mail me at melissasevena@gmail.com