Here's Pics. At Last!

Well, this was about the fullest our parking lot got this first open weekend. But our freinds in MN said that their first weekend was slow too so that encouraged us. It was a lot of fun though!!!

We barely got everything done! Here is the kids straw maze. The kids seem to REALLY enjoy it!

Here is the water balloon sling shot area.

Here's our porta potty! Isn't it cute!!! ;D

Here we are hurrying to finish the concession stand. We had SOOOOO many AWSOME friends that have helped us through this whole thing!

The Mikesels, McCannes, Comstocks, Lucas, McCormicks, Whitesides, Gills, Rogers, and many more. Thanks everyone! We couldn't have done it without ya'll!!!

And the roof goes on!!!!! :D

There's a great veiw from way up there!

Mr. Mikesell let us borrow his tractor! It was sooooooo much fun to drive!

Here's a movie of how the rope maze works in case any of you are wondering! Enjoy your evening! Thanks for your prayers!

Our First Days

Hey all! Thanks for your prayers! We had a slow weekend but that was ok, God knows what He's doing. We had a video production guy out at the maze on Fri. and he created a REALLY neat video while a family went through the maze!

Here's the link to the video! Hope you enjoy!

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x522014793/Maze-in-a-field-of-maize-near-Lincoln

Opening Day!

Well today is opening day for the maze!

We had our church over last night to kinda get us ready for today and things went great!

Please keep us in your prayers though if you think about us!

We still have a lot of last minute things before 4:00 today!

Hopefully will post LOTS of pics. later!

Thanks for all your prayers and support!

More Corn Maze Stuff...

Well, we've made good progress so far this week!

Here we have most of the animal pens done.

And this morning we finished setting up the rope maze!!!

I think this will be a big attraction. We haven't been able to try it out yet (we are so busy building fun things for others that we don't have time to enjoy them ourselves! :D ) but it looks like a lot of fun!!!!

Ben thinks it looks a little complicated! ;D

Ben took this pic. from the top of the concession stand, which is almost completed, and you can see the layout of things. The entrance to the corn maze, the rope maze, then the craft area and water balloon slingshot, after that the little kids hay maze (not done with it yet), and last the animals.

Caleb and Ben in between the outside stuff have been painting signs.

Hope we are not totally boring you all out!

Drum Roll Please........

Well... here is the pic. of the maze from the air!

We are so excited and pleasantly surprised at how it turned out!

Hope you all can come to it!

We open July 23rd.

What We've Been Up To....

Sorry I haven't posted lately! The corn maze opens in two weeks and we are swamped so this won't be a wordy post just mainly a quick over view of what we've been up to...

The maze is totally cut and the paths are GREAT! Us kids are having a blst going through.

Here is the concession stand which has been taking up most of our time and energy the last two weeks.

We are almost done and hope to finish this weekend!

We are all getting a good work education.

We have so many AWSOME friends that have given of their time and energy to help us. Thanks guys!

This is our road side signs that arrived yesterday.

We are going to have a sort of petting zoo at the maze so we brought my sheep down from my grandpa's. Sarah and Jenny came over to help me shear them.

We have also purchased some chicks...

and some piglets!

Ok, for pigs, I think they are pretty cute. Their names are Sausage and Floyd.

Earlier this week Caleb, Jenny and I got to go up in an air plane to take the arial photo! It was so fun and the maze looks just like it's supposed to!!!! YEA!!!!

Jenny took the pis. cause she has a nice camera. ;)

This is a pic. I took so it's not the nicest, we'll probably post the edited one later on.

This is how flat IL really is!!!

Please keep us in your prayers!

Watermelons & Pamplets...

Here is a corn maze update with pics.! (I know.. finally!) ;)

Last week we passed out pamphlets about the corn maze at our county wide Rt. 66 garage sale! The pamphlet also has a $1 off coupon in it so hopefully a lot of people will come and use them!!!!

Here mom and the boys are folding them.

And last night at 8:00 we went out and planted watermelons in the you pick sweet corn, watermelon, pumpkin patch!

It was pretty fun though, out in the middle of a corn field at dusk planting watermelons. Not something you see everyday! ;)

Mom dug the hole.

Ben stuck in the plant.

I covered it with dirt.

And James watered. ;D

Oh! And for those of you who so sacrificially gave of your time and energy to help plant those 3,000 pumpkin seeds the other day... they are coming up and looking great! Thanks for your help!

Corn Maze Update

Thank you all for your prayers. It did rain but they did get a little over half the paths cut! We are going to try to cut the rest this Sat. so please keep us in your prayers. We are such a needy people aren't we?! Isn't so nice to know that we have a God that is always listening and that is powerful enough to answer our requests?! hope to get more pics. soon!

Urgent Prayer Request!!!!

Hey all! Today we are cutting the corn maze!!!!!! Caleb is helping with 5-Day Clubs with Uncle Jerry down south for the month and he was able to fly here just for today in order to cut the maze so it is VERY important that they get it all cut today. So the reason we need you all to pray, is one... that the cutting will go smoothly and two.... we have a 30% chance of thunderstorms at 1:00 this afternoon and they are still working! So if you all could send up a prayer that the Lord would hold off the rain til they are done that would be a huge blessing!

I have a lot of pics. on the things we have done on the maze but we are having technical difficulties with the computer that has all the pics. on it. So I will post them as soon as I can!

Hope you all have a blessed weekend! Thank you for your prayers!

S.M.I.T.E Camp!

Sorry all for not posting last week! Caleb, Ben, & I were at S.M.I.T.E camp down in balmy Louisiana all last week! We had a GREAT time! S.M.I.T.E camp, for those of you who don't know, is a camp were "fun goes to die" as the director, Uncle Jerry, says. :) It's a place were they train you to lead 5 Day Bible Clubs and to lead kids to the Lord! A 5 Day Bible Club is like a 1 hour VBS in someones backyard or at a town park. We do songs, a memory verse, and Bible lesson and a missionary story. Plus a game or two here or there.

S.M.I.T.E stands for Summer Missionary Institute for Training and Evangelism. It has four levels that you pass by taking tests at the end of the week. The 1st level teaches how to use the wordless book to lead someone to the Lord. Level 2 is how to tell the Missionary story, level 3 on how to tell the Bible lesson and to write your own outlines, and level 4 is on teaching in general. After you pass level 4 you "graduate" from SMITE, which I (Jordan) did this year! Caleb passed level 3 and Ben passed level 2.

So the schedule (just so you can see what it's like) is... you get up at 6:00, eat breakfast, then you go to your classes til lunch. After lunch you have a study hour to get ready for your club then everyone goes out to there assigned club and practices what they have been learning. After that everyone gets back, gets ready for evening services and goes to dinner. After dinner the service starts at about 6:30, with a 1/2 hour sing time, and doesn't get out til the Holy Spirit lets us! :) Which this week was about 11:30 each night! It is so cool because there is such a sense of revival in that place that is just awesome!

This year there were over 1,000 kids enrolled in the clubs and over 400 saved!!!! This is a camp to definitely look in to! Hope I didn't bore you all! Now to the pics...

On the way down we stopped at Lamberts!!!!

We had a little wait so we bumped a volleyball on the grass to get all our energy out from driving.

On Sun. after church we went to the Bass Pro Shop down there!!! COOL place!!!!

(Love this truck!)
Here's Britt and Jenny in one of the services.

Here's Ashley! She's so cute!

And Natalea, she's so fun! And there's our guys in the background.

This was one of the preachers.

And some of you may know this one! "I love my pastor!!!" :D

This is a movie of one of the songs we sing down there. The song time is just incredible!!!!!

Please keep us in your prayer this summer as we do Bible clubs around our area! For safety and the Holy Spirit to convict and change lives!

Staking Out Parking

(Sorry, these pics. were taken last month so this is a little out of order of how things happened but still thought I'd post them anyway.)

This is the field were, Lord willing, in a few months there will be a corn maze!

Here's Mom and Caleb measuring the parking area and placing flags so that they could tell were to plant the grass seed.

Oh! We also have a web site! It gives the info. about the in's and out's of the corn maze!

It's http://www.lincolncornmaze.com/

Hope you give it a visit and tell us what you think! If it's clear, not clear, or needs something that we didn't mention! We'd appreciate the comments!