Brief Update

Hi all we apologize heavily that it has taken us so long to post, but it has been a busy busy winter.
Here is a list of what has been happening since we last posted.

1) I, Austin, acquired an internship position at our home church, The Chapel, and have been working side by side with, Dan Sommer, the high school youth pastor to increase the reach of our high school youth group here in St. Joseph, MI as well as to increase the impact it has on the students within, challenging them to share their faith through an evangelism training group I got to design and run called The Core.

2) Kelsey has been working hard all the way to the end of  2013 and is still growing and maintaining her photography, videography, and design company called Maiko Media. She has booked well over 15 weddings this year and many more already for 2015. She even has a new and awesome website check it out here http://maikomedia.com/

3) We have got to see lots of family. In November 2013 we visited Kelsey's brother and sister in New York who just recently had their first baby, a healthy baby boy named David  Masuda. In April of this year we visited my sister and her boys in Tennessee because my nephew Parker who is 1.5years old had a successful open heart surgery to fix a hole in his heart, and now along with his still huge smile has a nice scar running longways down his chest.

4) Lastly in the late winter Kelsey, I and our company Bound For Freedom found a brand new store front in our dream of downtown St. Joseph, MI. Located at 404 State Street, Bound For Freedom rolled onto the scene very unexpectedly after a local business closed down in mid January, we signed a lease at the end of February, renovated until mid April and opened on April 18th. Business has been so great already and the people of our hometown and surrounding areas have been so receptive and encouraging to us.

Thanks for all the love and support, hopefully this gives you a taste of what has been going on in our lives. Sorry that it has taken us so long to post, we hope to get back into the swing of things here shortly as we get settled into our normal routine here in St. Joseph, MI. God Bless.

New Home/Circuit Riders Worship

-Weeks after celebrating our first year together, Kelsey and I found our lease on our apartment finishing up at the end of the month. Scrambling to find a new place we found, with help in the search from my parents, a beautiful duplex in Stevensville, MI (pictures to come), but couldn't move in until the 2nd week of September.
-After moving in and settling down, which took a lot longer than we had anticipated, we have been finding more and more and more how good the Lord truly is, we now have space to invite and host people without feeling crammed/claustrophobic. We also have a basement that we have been using for worship nights with some of our high school kids from The Chapel, and on top of all this enough storage space for our Bound For Freedom merchandise as we continue to pursue a store front location.
-One of the messages we got to experience when we were at School of the Circuit Riders back in August, was taught by a worship leader named Lindy. As we look back over our time of moving into our new home and the times of worship that we have been able to put on for our high school students over the summer, this message is so important for us to remember as we strive to worship Jesus and give Him the glory that He deserves for all that He does. Enjoy.

CR-Worship Teaching - 35min

Celebrating 1 Year

A few weeks back Kelsey & I enjoyed our 1 year anniversary. Time absolutely flies when you are having fun. So this is a medium length highlight vid, I put together from clips shot by close friends of ours Andrew Wade & Robby & Tiah Ciganek. Hope this brings back some fun memories, it definitely did for us while watching it.
 

A&K Wedding 2012 from Austin Bock on Vimeo.

Also don't forget to read out other posts and listen to some of the great sermons, from our trip down to the Circuit Riders school.