Couple completes log cabin in memory of dad

Whether you call it a log cabin, log chapel or something else, what Kim and Earl Bennett have is something special.

The couple rebuilt a cabin that was originally built by Kim's great-grandfather in 1901. Her father, Bill Beussink, had begun the reconstruction project in 2009, after he'd been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Earl, who has a construction background, helped with the project. When Beussink died in 2011, the project was put on hold.

"We just started doing stuff, and then we thought it would make a cool little chapel," says Earl, who in 1996 founded Saturation Ministries, which provides support for people looking to get involved with ministries.

Now, the log cabin serves as a place for nondenominational church services on Sunday mornings; with music provided by Earl, who plays guitar, sings and "occasionally blows on a twisted kudu horn, which sits in the front of the room and which he's orchestrated into one of the songs on a gospel CD he has in the works," according to reporter Jeff Breer.

Some of Beussink's musical instruments are on display at the home.

"I wanted to finish it for Dad," Kim says. "I think Dad in his Alzheimer's state was probably satisfied with the way it was, but I don't know if he had the vision to see it in his mind completed, but I do think he'd like what we've done. I'm pretty sure of that."