Emily and Mission Weekend

You know those times when you are out and you are hoping that your children will behave themselves and make a good impression. Well Levin was one of those times, we had all arrived back for dinner to the Corps at Levin and were waiting patiently. Well this was Emily's idea of behaving and making a good impression.

Can she open her mouth any wider than this....

She did redeem herself a little bit with this cute bit of peek a boo.

To Broadband or not to Broadband

Well broadband finally arrived at our humble abode at the Training College on Friday, thanks to the endless metres of trenches that were dug from the main building to all the houses on the campus.... And some technical expertise from ISG.

The only problem is that since coming home from Queenstown on Sunday it has been very difficult to separate Perry from the computer. Yes I know that he has not spent all that time on the internet but the presence of fast internet in the house has increased his dependence on the computer, particularly since he started his own site at bebo and myspace to update with his own stuff... Typical that he has to take something quite simple as blogging and then make it complicated.... Downloading video clips, adding presentations that he has put together ....

Needless to say that much of the last couple of days without classes Perry has been joined at the hip to the laptop. I guess sooner or later that the novelty will wear off and that He will get on with more important things like housework.... Assignments and shaving......

Bad photo days

You know those days when people are trying to take your photo and you just don't want them to well I think that that was the kind of day that Monique was having a few days ago when she was watching TV with Emily......

See for yourself......

Emily thinks that this is a laugh a minute. She loves having her photo taken...

Monique on the other hand is highly suspicious of this camera thing...

She did not want it taken at all.

Ooops this was not quite the photo that she would want to have taken. I really like this picture of Emily though.

I just thought that they looked so cute sitting together on Emily's barbie couch watching Hi5.

Gimme 5

The weekend of the 16th & 17th of June saw all the cadets and children heading for Levin at various stages of the day for our first mission weekend of the year.

There were a number of projects that were to be done including painting at a local school, a sunday service and 1hour outreach thingy for music morning children to come to. I was part of the music morning team. Our brief was to provide a music type afternoon for 50+ kids similar to a Hi-5 event.....

So we did. Complete with our own Gimme 5 song and 4 activites for the children and their parents to participate in..... Our team were; Sue Stevens, Kylie Tong, Rochelle Chisholm, Corryn Smith and yours truly......

Here are a few photos of the Gimme 5 team .... Never fear there is no chance of us giving Hi5 a run for their money.... except with musical composition .. well done to Shelly Toganivalu and Julie Marshall for their musical rearranging skills.......

Round and round the world we go

There are people high and low

People people everywhere

Round and round the world

Playing working helping out

Sharing trusting SHOUT IT OUT

Together is a better way

All around the world

Everybody dance and feel the joy
Everybody, every girl and every boy
Everybody dance and come alive
Because together we are better GIMME 5.

We all had a fantastic time making fools of ourselves. I think that there are times in our lives as adults when we need to make fools of ourselves just to keep us in touch with the children around us..... And also to remind us that God still uses us to impact people even when we make fools of ourselves....

Supermodels in the making

A few weekends ago Christina and Patrick were asked to be models for a fundraiser for Kilbirnie Corps with a fashion parade of clothing from Pumpkin Patch/Urbal Angel..... Christina took to it like a duck to water but Ptrick was more interested in keeping his very young catwalk partner under control than actually showing off the clothes.... Typical boy

Here are the photos....

This energetic young man gave Patrick a run for his money

literally. I must admit Patrick does look very handsome while proving what good big brother he makes whether to his own little sister or somebody else's children.

Christina and Stephanie stepping out together with confidence. I really liked this outfit on Christina... It was at this point that I did have the horrible thought that this little 'fundraiser' could work out really expensive for me.

This little boy again taking up Patrick's attention off the purpose of the event.

Christina comes out in her second outfit... Again looking fantastic.... Although I think the blue looked much better... I still can't get over how tall she is looking....

They both had a lot of fun and the event raise a good amount of money towards 2 or 3 of the young people's trip to Kaivata for the tri territorial youth conference in Jan 08.

Keeping the Aquarium

While doing research for my latest sermon I found this wonderful little illustration in my Libronix computer programme..... I found it really amusing.... I so wanted to be able to fit it into my sermon but alas...... it just will not fit no matter how much I shove it....

Keeping The Aquarium
Dr. Kermit Long says, “With all our education, our fine buildings, our image of the church, we are doing less to win people to Christ than our unschooled forefathers did. We’re no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each other’s bowl.” — Christian Victory

Just to keep the copyright people happy the book that this is in if you can find the actual item is as follows:-

Tan, P. L. (1996, c1979). Encyclopedia of 7700 illustrations : A treasury of illustrations, anecdotes, facts and quotations for pastors, teachers and Christian workers. Garland TX: Bible Communications.

Enjoy