+JMJ FEBRUARY 2, 2010 Feast of the Presentation of our Lord was the World Day of Consecrated Life. Our pastor from San Buenaventura Mission came to our convent home to celebrate Mass, 
witness our renewal of vows and bless the beginnings of the construction of the 2nd floor to our convent! The contractor, Michael of Donnelly Development, his wife and his work crew as well as our construction advisor Michael Viola, my brother Paul Chinn, Sister Mary Joseph’s godson Brother John Shearer, an Oblate of St. Joseph and a representative of the Lay Handmaids, our lay associates joined in the Mass!
We had coffee and brownies after Mass followed by the actual beginning of the demolition for the re-construction of our convent!
God truly provides! Just the night before we went to dinner with Casey and Shannon Culp. 
They were not aware of the impending construction, our moving out of the convent and need for a place to live until November 2010. Once they found out, they immediately and graciously offered us a place to live as did several other parishioners and friends! We accepted their offer and moved in following the final Mass at our convent! Now we have a home away from home!
