america's got talent

This guy is awesome!

man flu - friday funny

blogger comments - help?!?

Is anyone else not receiving emails notifications when they get comments?!?!?

I have had a few comments and not received an email to tell me?

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compassion

I have sponsored a Compassion child for about 3 years or so now, and I love it!

I receive pictures, drawings, letters from 'Joko' who is in Indonesian. A group at church chose to sponsor 10 children from the same village with the hope of maybe one day going to visit our sponsor children. I also get a new 'official compassion' picture and update each year, I just received mine in the mail a few days again. Joko is getting so big, he looks so little in the first picture we have of him...

Compassion is a great idea and a real opportunity to help our brothers and sisters in Christ who live in countries not as privileged as ours. The thing I love most about Compassion is that it is 'Christ-centred, Child-focused and Church-based, these kids regular attend Sunday school, they run vocational bible school in the holidays which Joko attends and he tells me about it in letters. They seem to get together a lot at the 'project' where they get to do Christian activities and games, all of these things are linked with the local church in the community that Joko and his family live. Click here to find out more about what Compassion do.

Friends of mine have sponsored children for their own children, what a great way to teach your children to care and love others, they also write each others letters and draw each other pictures. I think I would like to do this for our niece when she gets a little bit older..

I really recommend this program, it's a joy to receive letters and pictures from Joko and to also write to him, it's a privilege to be able to contribute to a family in need, but most of all it's amazing to know that through this program this little boy and his family are finding out more about our Lord and Saviour, not only are their physical needs being met but most importantly their spiritual needs are also being met.

I pray that Joko grows up to be a man of God, to know, love and fear the Lord with all his heart, mind, body and soul...

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Thought I would spread the good news :)

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beowulf

SP and I saw this movie on Saturday night and can I say - it wasn't my cup of tea... I mean it's hardly a 'chick flick' but I found it very unusual and don't tell anyone, but I was a little bit scared in parts. I also found it a very grotesque, guys you may be alright with this but ladies - I don't recommend it to you unless you really like that kind of thing... SP wasn't a fan either... To be fair we didn't really know anything of this story before we went - sorry Beowulf fans, but I have since looked up a little bit about it's origin etc....

The 'digitally enhanced live action' (I had to look this up on the internet as I wasn't sure what the correct term was!) was amazing and at times I found it hard to believe that it wasn't actually Anthony Hopkins... Ray Winston lends his voice to Beowulf, I love Ray Winston and think he is an awesome 'cockney' actor...

So they did an amazing job of the 'digitally enhanced live-action' and the actors are great but the movie itself = strange! That could just be me and I am sure there are many a folk out there who will love it, let me know what you think if you have seen it or if you go and see it!