Blessing of the Land

Mark and I got home late last night from Albert and Alyssa's wedding down in the OC, and then Katie and I went to church this morning. After the ceremony, we had a "blessing of the land" service on a piece of property our church has owned for a LONG time (I think about 10 years?). Getting building permits and approval from the county is no easy thing in Santa Barbara and so progress has been slow, but the chuch has prayed consistently that God will provide a way for us to be able to build there and it looks like it's finally going to happen at some point soon in the near future.

The piece of land right now is this vacant field (pretty much the ONLY vacant field in all of Santa Barbara....) :) and so when we went to have the service there it stired up all these bugs, which brought all these birds swooping around to eat the bugs. Here are a few shots from the service....