From Chloe:
Hi,
my name is Chloe
I am 7 years old and in the second grade.
Today november 8th 2009 I learned happyness
is like a pebble in a lake!!!
(Chloe shared with me during a bike ride around the lake today that the rings emanating from a pebble thrown in the water is like happiness spreading by one person smiling at another and on and on)
From Rachel:
At school we are making fun projects. And when it was October we made plastic apple plates. It was alot of fun! Also in October we made owls out of paper bags. We are talking about our 5 senses. We are reading alot of books about our 5 senses. We are having Super Senses Day and it will be alot of fun!
From Tadi:
I have fun at Lauren and Ryan's house playing games and I like the crumbs to eat for breakfast and I always like them. And me and Lauren and Ryan played the cow game and I almost crashed one of the cows. We just watched a movie and I like the songs and I like to go downstairs to play. And I didn't know you gonna take me home like you said after you fight I'm gonna take you home.
From Rachel:
At school we are making fun projects. And when it was October we made plastic apple plates. It was alot of fun! Also in October we made owls out of paper bags. We are talking about our 5 senses. We are reading alot of books about our 5 senses. We are having Super Senses Day and it will be alot of fun!
From Tadi:
I have fun at Lauren and Ryan's house playing games and I like the crumbs to eat for breakfast and I always like them. And me and Lauren and Ryan played the cow game and I almost crashed one of the cows. We just watched a movie and I like the songs and I like to go downstairs to play. And I didn't know you gonna take me home like you said after you fight I'm gonna take you home.
(I learned afterward that the cow game is a video game and Tadi kept crashing his guy)
From Matt:
I finally got to experience in my heart what my wife got to experience in her heart when she decided she wanted to adopt from Ethiopia.
From Beth:
We visited a new church for the first time today, King's Park International Church in Durham, NC. It is an interdominational church that is fundamentally Christian in that it teaches directly from the bible, but has a different worship style. Today they celebrated the first ever national Orphan Day. We were blessed with the African Children's Choir leading our service in worship through their amazing singing and dancing. At the first beat of the traditional Ugandan drum my heart lept with life til it poured out my eyes. A reaffirmation for me today that Africa lives in my heart. The pastor's talk today was taken from various scriptures in the bible about caring for orphans. I was very moved and it enabled me to solidify some rambling thoughts I've been having about how I am going to make my dream of sponsoring mission trips to Ethiopia a reality.
After church we had donuts then went on a family bike ride on a beautiful sunny and 75 degree day in NC.
2 comments:
Great idea and great pics. Tadi looks so much bigger then last time I saw him. The girls look so beautiful.
Did you like the Church? I had wanted to try it. Our small group was starting to get involved with the Mirembe House (were the ACC stays while in Raleigh). it is an amazing experience. We brought meals and helped w/ a clean up. It was so incredible. Deanna does a lot there.
Let me know about the Ethiopian mission trips. My heart is longing to go back.
Have a great week to all of you!
Hi Heather!
I really did like the church alot. It basically works like a bible study group which is very helpful for me. They take some passages out of the bible (which are way too cryptic for me to understand on my own) and talk about them in everyday language. Part of me missed the ritual of Catholic church, but really, this is much better for our family's overall understanding. During the sermon part, the kids can go to bible school where they learn about it in kid-appropriate ways.
I'm hoping to be able to go out to Mirembe House sometime. They just arrived back and I believe are staying a couple months.
Will definitely keep you updated on the mission trips!!! Would be wonderful to go together.
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