We would really appreciate your prayers, we have been going to a new church now for almost a year but haven't really settled there.
In the past few weeks and months we have been praying, thinking, talking and seeking council on what to do.
It's not been an easy decision but we have decided to look for another church.
It's also not an easy time what with a baby on the way. We have been to a couple of churches so far in the last few weeks and are encouraged that Sydney has a lot of great bible teaching churches.
Please pray for us as we look around, pray that God might show us where he wants us.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, April 07, 2008
the 'welcome' course
Last Thursday night, my new church started the 'welcome' course which is put together by Evangelism Ministries and a couple of wonderful women I know!
There weren't all that many people there but it was still really great. There is a lot of work to be done but it's exciting that the church is taking the necessary steps they need to to improve welcoming and make people feel loved and cared for.
It's always hard starting a new church when you don't really know anyone, I have struggled with this more than SP. I think because I am an 'out there' person I crave friendship and bounce of it, not having it has been tough. Now I know that this takes time and on Sunday I did get to meet quite a few lovely women- I just don't really know any of them really well yet. Hopefully we will be starting in a bible study soon, which I am sure will help with getting to know more people on a deeper level.
If you think about it please pray for us as we adjust to our new church and as we meet new people.
So the first night was good and it was good that as SP and I are newcomers we were able to share our experience of being welcomed into this church, we looked not only at what happens once someone comes inside the building but we also looked at the exterior of the building - is it welcoming - is it 'open', do people know you are there, etc.
We started the night off with a bible study from 1 John 4:7-20, I thought it was great to start off with the word of God and to be challenged on how we ought to love, it helped put the evening and welcoming into perspective - in light of the fact that God loved us, he loved us so much he sent his Son to die for us, that love comes from God, God is love, we love because he loved us first, that His love is made complete in us and that if we don't love our brother we cannot love God.
We can't meet again or a couple of weeks, but I am looking forward to engaging in more conversations and ideas in how we might make our church a people loving, welcoming place for people to learn about God and worship. Please pray for our churches that we might put others first, that we might be willing to step out of our comfort zones, that we might be alert to the people around who might be new or on their own and that God might lay it on our hearts to love as he has loved us.
There weren't all that many people there but it was still really great. There is a lot of work to be done but it's exciting that the church is taking the necessary steps they need to to improve welcoming and make people feel loved and cared for.
It's always hard starting a new church when you don't really know anyone, I have struggled with this more than SP. I think because I am an 'out there' person I crave friendship and bounce of it, not having it has been tough. Now I know that this takes time and on Sunday I did get to meet quite a few lovely women- I just don't really know any of them really well yet. Hopefully we will be starting in a bible study soon, which I am sure will help with getting to know more people on a deeper level.
If you think about it please pray for us as we adjust to our new church and as we meet new people.
So the first night was good and it was good that as SP and I are newcomers we were able to share our experience of being welcomed into this church, we looked not only at what happens once someone comes inside the building but we also looked at the exterior of the building - is it welcoming - is it 'open', do people know you are there, etc.
We started the night off with a bible study from 1 John 4:7-20, I thought it was great to start off with the word of God and to be challenged on how we ought to love, it helped put the evening and welcoming into perspective - in light of the fact that God loved us, he loved us so much he sent his Son to die for us, that love comes from God, God is love, we love because he loved us first, that His love is made complete in us and that if we don't love our brother we cannot love God.
We can't meet again or a couple of weeks, but I am looking forward to engaging in more conversations and ideas in how we might make our church a people loving, welcoming place for people to learn about God and worship. Please pray for our churches that we might put others first, that we might be willing to step out of our comfort zones, that we might be alert to the people around who might be new or on their own and that God might lay it on our hearts to love as he has loved us.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
our last sunday at church with pics
Last Sunday was our last night at our current church, we had a picnic during the day along with a few other people who also left on Sunday. It was a nice afternoon of chatting, eating, boiling in the hot weather and remembering how much God has taught us and grown us.
I will miss my church and church family but I know there are many people that I will continue to have great friendships with, who I will continue to see regularly.
I was a little sad during the last song, knowing that that was the last time I would be singing together as a member of that church but I am excited to see what God has in store at our new church, how he is going to grow us, use us and shape us to be more like his son.
I will miss my church and church family but I know there are many people that I will continue to have great friendships with, who I will continue to see regularly.
I was a little sad during the last song, knowing that that was the last time I would be singing together as a member of that church but I am excited to see what God has in store at our new church, how he is going to grow us, use us and shape us to be more like his son.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
why go to church?
I read this this morning and liked it!
A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now, " he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married to my wife for 37 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritual dead today!"
A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now, " he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married to my wife for 37 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritual dead today!"
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
leaving church
Some of you may or may not know that we are leaving church in a few weeks. It has been a hard decision but a decision we have been thinking and praying about for over a year now and we have decided the time is now right. We decided at the beginning of this year to leave but had a few commitments including Bible Study that we wanted to continue with until the end of this year. We love our Bible Study and have so enjoyed these past couple of years learning more about God with them.
I have really enjoyed my time at CIM and I have learnt so much about ministry, God has grown me in so many ways for which I am enormously thankful and CIM has given me the opportunities to do so many new things that I would have never tried before.
It hasn't been an easy decision, I have been going to church there since I arrived in Australia over 3 1/2 years ago and SP joined me about 8 months after that. Most of my friends go to CIM and although I know leaving churches doesn't stop the friendships I know it will change some of them a little so it will mean really making the effort to catch up and hang out, which we are very keen to do. I will miss seeing everyone so much each Sunday.
There are a few different reasons why we are leaving, one of which is we are keen to go to a morning church closer to home. We have checked a couple of churches out over the past few months and are swaying towards one church in particular but we haven't totally made up our mind as yet. Both of the churches we have tried have been amazingly welcoming and the word of God was preached clearly and with conviction, we also felt looked after, but we can only go to one.
Please pray for wisdom as we think through what church we go to next, we want to be godly in our decision, we want to go to a church that is community/outward focused where we can use the new skills and gifts God has given us to build and grow God's kingdom and of course we want a church that preaches Christ crucified.
I am going to try and organise a little get together before we leave so keep posted and I will let you now about it when I have the details.
I have really enjoyed my time at CIM and I have learnt so much about ministry, God has grown me in so many ways for which I am enormously thankful and CIM has given me the opportunities to do so many new things that I would have never tried before.
It hasn't been an easy decision, I have been going to church there since I arrived in Australia over 3 1/2 years ago and SP joined me about 8 months after that. Most of my friends go to CIM and although I know leaving churches doesn't stop the friendships I know it will change some of them a little so it will mean really making the effort to catch up and hang out, which we are very keen to do. I will miss seeing everyone so much each Sunday.
There are a few different reasons why we are leaving, one of which is we are keen to go to a morning church closer to home. We have checked a couple of churches out over the past few months and are swaying towards one church in particular but we haven't totally made up our mind as yet. Both of the churches we have tried have been amazingly welcoming and the word of God was preached clearly and with conviction, we also felt looked after, but we can only go to one.
Please pray for wisdom as we think through what church we go to next, we want to be godly in our decision, we want to go to a church that is community/outward focused where we can use the new skills and gifts God has given us to build and grow God's kingdom and of course we want a church that preaches Christ crucified.
I am going to try and organise a little get together before we leave so keep posted and I will let you now about it when I have the details.
Friday, October 26, 2007
iron chef shenanigans
So yesterday I was running around like a headless chook (what the aussies call chickens) as I had to do all the things I normally do on my Thursday off. Housework, Washing, Shopping but I also had to get all the ingredients for last nights Iron Chef, get to church early with all ingredients an cooking instruments!
I got to the shops and amazingly managed to get most things - I had to go to a few stores to get everything but that's all good. The pressure was on though, I mean if I forgot anything that would be a nightmare wouldn't it!
I also needed to bring in all our electrical appliances so we could make sure that there wouldn't be a massive blow out = no more iron chef.... So I had to get all the ingredients and also about 5 bags worth of utensils, cooking bits and bobs, electric wok (it was all electric cooking baby - no oven or stove), our rice cooker and electric fry pan.. I carted all this stuff downstairs along with the food - I was exhausted before I even left the house...
I put everything in the car and as I pulled out of the garage I thought to myself - 'Self - should you maybe just get out of the car and check that you haven't left anything in the garage as you do have a lots of bags and you don't want to leave anything behind, you do live a long way away and it will be busy peak hour traffic?' - I told Self - 'Naaaaaaaa I am sure I have everything'. I drove away.. I picked up my lovely husband and we drove over to church - peak hour, over the Harbour Bridge, 35 minutes away...
We arrived at church, laid all our cooking stuff out on the 'Yellow Table' - we were the 'Yellow Team' - we had our secret ingredient - 'Coconut' (just for you Holly)! All was good. Or was it!
Our recipes were:
Starter: PRAWNS coated in Coconut and shallow fried with honey/soy/lime sauce on Spinach.
Main: Baltese FISH in a spicy coconut sauce.
Dessert: Pancakes with ICECREAM, Desiccated Coconut and Chocolate Sauce.
Then I looked and couldn't see the pink bag, the pink bag with all the fresh ingredients in - the FISH, the PRAWNS and all the the fresh produce.
PANICK! This was at 6.30pm - the evening started with pot luck dinner at 7pm and then the cook-off at 7.30pm - it was peak hour traffic = bad when you live where we live. SP said he would drive, he would not normally be able to make it back to our house and back to church in time - I felt awful, I am such a scatter brain... He might not even make it back in time for the cook-off let alone dinner - the poor thing.
I had left it in the garage. SELF WHY DIDN"T YOU GET OUT OF THE CAR TO CHECK!!!
Anyway my husband was very lovely, I had sent him a text message to tell him I was really sorry, he sent me a message saying 'you did great today, don't worry, I will be back soon' - how nice is he, I should marry him, Oh I already did.
Amazingly he arrived back AT 7.15pm - thankyou God, he reminded me I didn't have eggs (which he picked up) or ICECREAM (which I picked up at a local shop). He made it back in time to have something to eat and in time to start the cook-off.
Anyhoo, we made our dishes - the first time we had made any of the dishes ever, it was videoed true Iron Chef style and we had fun. We didn't win but we had fun!!! One of the other teams had full on practiced all of there dishes on the weekend - not us!!!! The Blue Team won and all in all it was a good night!
Happy Weekend to you all!
ps that was a bloomin long story!!
I got to the shops and amazingly managed to get most things - I had to go to a few stores to get everything but that's all good. The pressure was on though, I mean if I forgot anything that would be a nightmare wouldn't it!
I also needed to bring in all our electrical appliances so we could make sure that there wouldn't be a massive blow out = no more iron chef.... So I had to get all the ingredients and also about 5 bags worth of utensils, cooking bits and bobs, electric wok (it was all electric cooking baby - no oven or stove), our rice cooker and electric fry pan.. I carted all this stuff downstairs along with the food - I was exhausted before I even left the house...
I put everything in the car and as I pulled out of the garage I thought to myself - 'Self - should you maybe just get out of the car and check that you haven't left anything in the garage as you do have a lots of bags and you don't want to leave anything behind, you do live a long way away and it will be busy peak hour traffic?' - I told Self - 'Naaaaaaaa I am sure I have everything'. I drove away.. I picked up my lovely husband and we drove over to church - peak hour, over the Harbour Bridge, 35 minutes away...
We arrived at church, laid all our cooking stuff out on the 'Yellow Table' - we were the 'Yellow Team' - we had our secret ingredient - 'Coconut' (just for you Holly)! All was good. Or was it!
Our recipes were:
Starter: PRAWNS coated in Coconut and shallow fried with honey/soy/lime sauce on Spinach.
Main: Baltese FISH in a spicy coconut sauce.
Dessert: Pancakes with ICECREAM, Desiccated Coconut and Chocolate Sauce.
Then I looked and couldn't see the pink bag, the pink bag with all the fresh ingredients in - the FISH, the PRAWNS and all the the fresh produce.
PANICK! This was at 6.30pm - the evening started with pot luck dinner at 7pm and then the cook-off at 7.30pm - it was peak hour traffic = bad when you live where we live. SP said he would drive, he would not normally be able to make it back to our house and back to church in time - I felt awful, I am such a scatter brain... He might not even make it back in time for the cook-off let alone dinner - the poor thing.
I had left it in the garage. SELF WHY DIDN"T YOU GET OUT OF THE CAR TO CHECK!!!
Anyway my husband was very lovely, I had sent him a text message to tell him I was really sorry, he sent me a message saying 'you did great today, don't worry, I will be back soon' - how nice is he, I should marry him, Oh I already did.
Amazingly he arrived back AT 7.15pm - thankyou God, he reminded me I didn't have eggs (which he picked up) or ICECREAM (which I picked up at a local shop). He made it back in time to have something to eat and in time to start the cook-off.
Anyhoo, we made our dishes - the first time we had made any of the dishes ever, it was videoed true Iron Chef style and we had fun. We didn't win but we had fun!!! One of the other teams had full on practiced all of there dishes on the weekend - not us!!!! The Blue Team won and all in all it was a good night!
Happy Weekend to you all!
ps that was a bloomin long story!!
Monday, May 14, 2007
Hillsong
I have a blogger friend in the US who had some questions to ask me about Hillsong and about their college. She is a gifted musician who leads worship and sings in a band - she heard about Hillsong's College and wants to know more. As I have never been to Hillsong I can only report on what people have told me about it or what I have read, I have done that but don't feel free to speak anymore on it because I have never been. I trust and respect a lot of you as friends and blog readers so I would love to know more about what you think.Can anyone help give some insight into Hillsong and Hillsong College please - good and bad?
Monday, May 07, 2007
the weekend, the wedding and Christ alone
This weekend was busy but fun.
It started on Friday night with the lovely Laird's having us over for dinner, Lairdy cooked us a wonderful dinner as his beautiful wife was home late from work. We chatted, enjoyed a great meal together and caught up on each others lives. Before we knew it it was 11pm, way past my bed-time ;) Thanks to the Laird's for a wonderful night.
Saturday morning was a fairly early start with a game of tennis, I need to practice some of the moves I have been learning in my lessons. I am getting there but trying to re-learn how I play and hold the racket etc is a bit tricky, But I just love to play and that's the main thing...
Saturday saw 'two become one' in Andrew and Louise, it was a beautiful 'fairy-tale' wedding and Louise looked absolutely stunning - she could have stepped out of an Austen book. The ceremony was beautiful, AB was at his best and Olivia did an amazing job planning and helping Louise put everything together. I think the 'you may now kiss the bride' kiss was the longest kiss I am yet to see at a wedding. SP and I hung out with some friends between the ceremony and reception. We headed to the reception, there were purples, silvers and pinks all around - the location was great, everyone was in great spirits and SP and I had the pleasure of sharing a table with AB, Ruth and their 4 delightful children. They are each so beautiful but very different with their own little personalities and cute-nesses (new word). Anyhoo we had fun and some great chats with our lovely friends. The food was fantastic, the bridal waltz just lovely, they left, we left right afterwards and saw them in their car. We decided it would be funny to cross the pedestrian crossing really really slowly so that they couldn't go past. We thought is was funny anyway ;) We eventually let them by, thought they might run us over otherwise. It was a great day, great evening and always fun hanging out with wonderful friends from church.
Sunday was food shopping - oh what fun. We watched the Swans game that we missed on Saturday night, we went to the gym did a big workout and then I headed to meet 'Des' for a drink before church. At church we heard the 'Christ Alone' sermon in our series of 'Alone's' - you can hear them here.
My home town was mentioned in the sermon last night - how fun! But Dominic pronounced it wrong, saying "worCHESTer" instead of Worcester, as in 'Worcestershire' sauce. I won't hold it against him though ;) I was very excited that it was mentioned and that I know where one of the places he was talking about is. It was a great history lesson and I have enjoyed hearing about some of these great historical figures who made enormous contributions to Christianity, contributions that impacted Christians of their time but that have also impacted generations of Christians over the centuries, including ours. If you get chance have a listen.
Now here we are back to Monday, back to work, another week.. Happy Monday!
It started on Friday night with the lovely Laird's having us over for dinner, Lairdy cooked us a wonderful dinner as his beautiful wife was home late from work. We chatted, enjoyed a great meal together and caught up on each others lives. Before we knew it it was 11pm, way past my bed-time ;) Thanks to the Laird's for a wonderful night.
Saturday morning was a fairly early start with a game of tennis, I need to practice some of the moves I have been learning in my lessons. I am getting there but trying to re-learn how I play and hold the racket etc is a bit tricky, But I just love to play and that's the main thing...
Saturday saw 'two become one' in Andrew and Louise, it was a beautiful 'fairy-tale' wedding and Louise looked absolutely stunning - she could have stepped out of an Austen book. The ceremony was beautiful, AB was at his best and Olivia did an amazing job planning and helping Louise put everything together. I think the 'you may now kiss the bride' kiss was the longest kiss I am yet to see at a wedding. SP and I hung out with some friends between the ceremony and reception. We headed to the reception, there were purples, silvers and pinks all around - the location was great, everyone was in great spirits and SP and I had the pleasure of sharing a table with AB, Ruth and their 4 delightful children. They are each so beautiful but very different with their own little personalities and cute-nesses (new word). Anyhoo we had fun and some great chats with our lovely friends. The food was fantastic, the bridal waltz just lovely, they left, we left right afterwards and saw them in their car. We decided it would be funny to cross the pedestrian crossing really really slowly so that they couldn't go past. We thought is was funny anyway ;) We eventually let them by, thought they might run us over otherwise. It was a great day, great evening and always fun hanging out with wonderful friends from church.
Sunday was food shopping - oh what fun. We watched the Swans game that we missed on Saturday night, we went to the gym did a big workout and then I headed to meet 'Des' for a drink before church. At church we heard the 'Christ Alone' sermon in our series of 'Alone's' - you can hear them here.
My home town was mentioned in the sermon last night - how fun! But Dominic pronounced it wrong, saying "worCHESTer" instead of Worcester, as in 'Worcestershire' sauce. I won't hold it against him though ;) I was very excited that it was mentioned and that I know where one of the places he was talking about is. It was a great history lesson and I have enjoyed hearing about some of these great historical figures who made enormous contributions to Christianity, contributions that impacted Christians of their time but that have also impacted generations of Christians over the centuries, including ours. If you get chance have a listen.
Now here we are back to Monday, back to work, another week.. Happy Monday!
Monday, April 30, 2007
church weekend escape
We had a fun weekend escape with our evening church this weekend, it was great as it was only an hour away which was very awesome, not having to worry about a 2 hour drive on Friday after work was really lovely..
We arrived and got straight into the book of Jonah. It was really great to get to look at the book of Jonah, not just through the bible talk but also through small groups. Other then the obvious bits I was intrigued about Jonah and realised that I didn't know the story as well as I thought and there was a lot more to it.
It was cool to catch up with all my friends and to also meet some new people who I got to put names to faces. On Saturday night we had a 'red faces' night, as you might guess I mostly love stuff like that, our team had an 'improvising' task where we had to come up with an scenario to act out, one of the members of our group had to go out and NOT know what it was and then when we performed the scenario that person got to part take, hence the 'improv'. That person was SP and the scenario was 'speed dating' - it was highly amusing and poor SP had no idea what was happening.. The other teams had different 'tasks', I had sore cheeks from laughing. A group of us ended the night with 'Taboo' and then it was off to bed, I had some girlie chats with the ladies in my room which was fun, then it was off to sleep.
Sunday we had our finaly talk on Jonah and then we had a talk on the Lord's Supper, we ended the weekend sharing a meal and communion with each other. It was cool to share this meal together and to 'celebrate' what Christ has done for us on the cross. I was a bit tired after the busy weekend but not too bad. All in all a fun weekend was had by all.
We arrived and got straight into the book of Jonah. It was really great to get to look at the book of Jonah, not just through the bible talk but also through small groups. Other then the obvious bits I was intrigued about Jonah and realised that I didn't know the story as well as I thought and there was a lot more to it.
It was cool to catch up with all my friends and to also meet some new people who I got to put names to faces. On Saturday night we had a 'red faces' night, as you might guess I mostly love stuff like that, our team had an 'improvising' task where we had to come up with an scenario to act out, one of the members of our group had to go out and NOT know what it was and then when we performed the scenario that person got to part take, hence the 'improv'. That person was SP and the scenario was 'speed dating' - it was highly amusing and poor SP had no idea what was happening.. The other teams had different 'tasks', I had sore cheeks from laughing. A group of us ended the night with 'Taboo' and then it was off to bed, I had some girlie chats with the ladies in my room which was fun, then it was off to sleep.
Sunday we had our finaly talk on Jonah and then we had a talk on the Lord's Supper, we ended the weekend sharing a meal and communion with each other. It was cool to share this meal together and to 'celebrate' what Christ has done for us on the cross. I was a bit tired after the busy weekend but not too bad. All in all a fun weekend was had by all.
Friday, April 27, 2007
church camps and married couples
This morning I was having a chat in the office with my boss and colleague about church camps and being a married couple. This weekend will be my first church weekend away as a 'married' and so for the first time is has occurred to me that you don't get to stay in the same room as your husband, which therefore caused me to think about what I think about that.
I am sitting on the fence as I can see pro's and con's of both:
- it would be financially and logistically a lot tougher to organise a room for each couple individually, it would probably increase the cost significantly and be a lot harder to organise.
- a lot of campsites and venues, normally have rooms which cater for 6 people, so it wouldn't make sense to put just two people in one room.
- should we see marriage as a family unit? couples with kids get their own room (which I think is absolutely right) but a married couple is also a 'family' too. Does that mean they should get their own room?
- in marriage the two becoming one is a gift from God and placing an importance on having couples stay together is a good thing.
- Does is really matter for the sake of two nights?? If it means the charge will be greatly reduced then can't we just let it be?
- It is a great opportunity to have some girlie time sleep over. It's always fun.
- Should there be a choice for couples to pay more to have a room to themselves.
Anyway, I haven't thought a lot about it and these are just some of my initial thoughts, as I said I am not sure what I think. When I have thought some more on this I will post my thoughts.
What do you think?
Monday, March 19, 2007
this weekend
This weekend was pretty nice, SP and I had some time together and then on Sunday we went to see our friends who had the twins last Friday. It was a two hour drive but so worth it, I got to hold and cuddle the little ones plus I got to feed and burp one too - how nice ;) SP also got to do that, they were the smallest babies he had ever held - he was a bit nervous but did a good job.
I decided that I am not going home for the funeral which is this Wednesday, I have had mixed feelings about it each day but we decided that I wouldn't. I feel quite sad about this as I actually do want to be there to say goodbye but instead I am going to write something to be read out at the funeral and SP and I are going to do something on Wednesday to say our own good-byes.
Church last night was awesome SamR preached an amazing sermon on Romans 14, about 'disputable matters' and not causing our 'weaker brother to stumble' - it was very challenging and I will write up some more thoughts later or tomorrow once I have had more time to reflect.
I have included a pic of SP and Max - too too cute.
Monday, December 11, 2006
bbq'd out
This weekend was busy but fab. Saturday started with going to the Carn-ee-val-ee (that's how you say it here and it's weird!), it's just plain old carn-e-val* where I am from.. Anyhoo, we got there early and everyone was getting ready to start the day. It was so much fun, face painting, art exhibition, jumping castle, cookie making (you go Ruth), BBQ (number one) sausage sizzle and a maze. We had so much fun, I even jumped on the jumping castle with WH when no kids were around. Apparently after we went it really took off (hope that isn't because we left :( ) All in all a good day was had, many visitors, scripture kids and Adventure Club kids came - praise God that we have many talented and gifted people who helped plan and organise this and that many people came along to enjoy the day.
Next up SP and I had a friend's little girls 1st birthday (BBQ number two) that was really fun, she is such a cutie - we got her a little t-shirt with "Life of the party' written on it.
Then...... BBQ number three, was in the evening. A couple from church had invited numerous people over BYO meat to have dinner, this was fun. I got to catch up with people I haven't properly chatted to in a while and I found out one of my lovely scrummy friends is having a baby - Congrats to the McQ's..
Sunday arvo I went to hang out with the lovely Ruth and her boys, we had cookies, played music and danced, Ruth read the Christmas story and then they gave SP and I a little pressie - I love it, thanks so much!
Last night at church we had the most awesome night, a great sermon, church was packed out, new people were there and the music was amazing. We sang In Christ Alone - one of my absolute favourites and it rocked, everyone was singing with all their hearts and it sounded fab.
Guess what we doing tonight? - BBQ number four :(
*will post some pictures soon
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