Lexington, KY

GOOD NEWS!

Those who are volunteering to help The Jubilee Team paint a home for a needy family will be eating well on Saturday March 3rd.

My good friend called this afternoon with the joyful news that the Nicholasville Road Chick Fil A will be providing 15 box lunches with a sandwich, chips and a brownie for lunch for our hard working volunteers.

Thanks to Jeff Stryker and all the wonderful staff at the Nicholasville Road Chick Fil A for once again showing their love for the greater Lexington Kentucky community. We Love You Jeff!

Home sales for Central Kentucky for the month of January in 2008, January 2009, and January 2011 were respectively:

2008 - about 500

2009 - about 300

2010 - less than 400

2011 - about 350

So what would you expect home sales in Central Kentucky would be for January 2012?

• The weather has certainly been much warmer than last year.
• Interest rates are the lowest in history.
• Employment has increased.

All these would seem to show that home sales would be up.

Not only were home sales up but they increased almost a hundred percent from 2011 and were 57 percent higher than the average of the previous four years.

Central Kentucky Market Report

We continue to see a steady stream of buyers so hopefully this is the beginning of the recovery of the housing market.

Dear Friends,

The Jubilee Team with your help and also some donated paint from Sherman Williams on Regency Road will be painting the inside of a home.

Come Help Us Paint a House

Thanks so much for considering how you may be involved in this project. The family we are serving is so excited and blessed to know there are people who care about them enough to paint their home.

First of all we want all of the volunteers to enjoy the time. So there will be food and drinks available at all times during the work.

So I would like some volunteers to make muffins and cookies that will be available all day Friday and Saturday. I would also like lunch types of snacks to be available those two days. Sandwiches, chips, veggie or fruit snacks or whatever. We will need a lot more food on Saturday.

Food needs:

Friday: A dozen muffins, three dozen cookies, two dozen sandwiches, 2 bag of chips and some veggies and fruit.

Saturday: Two dozen muffins, 6 dozen cookies, six dozen sandwiches, 4 bags of chips and veggies and fruit.

Labor needs:

Thursday evening 7:30 – 8:30 We need four men with good backs to move furniture to the middle of the rooms.

Friday morning and afternoon we will be cleaning. We may not need many people for this task since I already have volunteers for the morning. If you volunteer to help clean in the afternoon and it is mostly done you can start helping cover the floors and even begin painting the trim if you are a painter.

Friday afternoon 12:00 to 4:00 – 6 general helpers. Finish cleaning, beginning covering the floor and taping. Possibly begin painting the trim.

Friday evening – 6 people who like to paint trim. If you have your own trim brush bring it. If not let me know so that I can have the extras needed.

Saturday morning – Lots of volunteers.

12 people finishing trim 6 people painting in two 4 hour shifts, if you can only give a couple of hours please do not hesitate to help.

8 people using rollers on the walls 4 people at a time in two 4 hour shifts. Again, if you only have an hour or two we will take it.

We need at least 2 people who do not mind painting while on a tall ladder, hopefully I will have at least one professional painter helping with this task.

Another 3 or 4 people to just be there for support.

We want one person always holding a tall ladder while someone is painting the cathedral walls. We want someone to make sure the food is available and the kitchen is always clean so that we can easily paint the kitchen also.

It would be great to also just have a person or two scouting out small areas that possibly need a little cleaning from paint that was spilled or looking for areas of trim that may need additional touch up.

Just give Paul or Dorothy a call or shoot us an email to let us know when you are available and what task you are eager to help with. Thanks so much!

Paul and Dorothy

3269 Malone Drive in Lexington Kentucky is waiting for the family that prefers a large home with lots of space to play, garden, and just enjoy the beauty of Kentucky.

The long list of premium features includes granite countertops, lot of built-ins, vaulted family room, built in luxury book cases, a finished basement with a kitchenette.

This home is within walking distance of Rosa Parks Elementary and Dunbar High School.

Convenience of walking to parks, shopping and schools are just a few other great reasons to check out this home.

There will be an open house from one to three this Saturday, February 11, from one to three in the afternoon. Don't miss this opportunity to view this spectacular home.

I ran up to Chinoe Center this morning. It was 37 degrees. Just a little nippy so that my ears were a bit touched before my body warmed up.

As I run I am usually thinking of how I get to the next goal. It is mostly an uphill run. My lungs seldom hurt but my legs begin to feel a little like marsh mellows at about a half a mile. If I keep my thoughts on how to get to the next spot without stopping I can push on and continue to push on a few hundred feet at a time.

I think pushing through frustration while running is much like all of life. Life continually confronts us we routines, problems, and sometimes perplexing challenges that require us to keep on going.

Keeping on going is so much easier when we have a community that can support us through the struggles that happen.

I have dear friends right now that are struggling with a life challenge. I am inviting you all to join me in helping support one of those friends. You can get all the details on how you can help by reading this earlier blog post.