Well after a long drive home and viewing way to many accidents en route, we are finally home and actually slept in our own bed for the first time in a month!
Dahab was great! and fairly relaxing although with one more VBS to go on my brain it is hard to completely unwind. We spent one full day at the beach snorkeling which was great, but my 60spf sunblock was not so great! Caleb was pretty confident if left alone but refused to be carried out any deeper than he can stand. I promised him that I would not hassle him about swimming, but at the same time I wouldn't stay with him and play in the shallow water...he played by himself quite a bit. He enjoyed seeing the fish underwater and there was quite a bit of marine life that could be observed in the shallow areas.
One day we drove over to Sharm and did the more touristy thang, ate at the Hard Rock Cafe (which seemed to have a play list from my high school days! "Mmmmmmmy Sharona" went on a 2 hour quad ride up in the mountains and accompanied my friends on their parasailing adventure (I think I could do it next time.)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Headin to the Beach!
VBS week 2 is finished and it went great as well! The team from TX was organized and had things well under control and the kids really seemed to enjoy it. So two down and one to go! The last summer event is called One Wild Week and it is a VBS/Daycamp combo which, believe it or not, is actually cheaper and easier than simply doing VBS. We have a simple curriculum which is centered around great music and the gospel story. Each day we will do music, skits and lesson and then hop on a bus and head out for a afternoon activity like water park etc. Excited that we have a number of new non church families that are sending their kids so hopefully we will be successful in reaching outside the church and more into the community.
Leaving in a few hours for the beaches of Dahab! I took the whole week off although not sure if I will spend it all in Dahab. Looking forward to sleeping in and reading alot ("enshacaleb" Caleb willing.) On my reading list is
Deep Church:A Third Way- This is my last book in my quest to get a better understanding of the whole Emergent Church movement.
Letters to a Diminished Church (An old Dorothy Sayers book) she was an old friend of C.S. Lewis who wrote mystery novels and theology books, pretty interesting combination!
The Big Short- an interesting account of the financial meltdown by way of telling the story of key individuals who were involved. A bit over my head when he talks technical about the banking industry but definitely lots of interesting background details that make for a good book as well as educating me in the world of high finance.
Hoping to do lots of thinking and planning for next semesters high school and middle school teaching topics and of course work on my Bible study for the Book of Acts which I have done very little thus far this summer and am getting a bit nervous.
And of course spending quality time with my guy! He is excited and hopefully will be feeling up for our big adventure. He had to get 2 vaccines yesterday for school and it mellowed him out quite a bit by evening time and he is still sound asleep. He has enjoyed our house sitting job which has allowed him unfettered access to cartoons. This year he was only aware of one cartoon channel which showed only old cartoons like Flintstones and Scooby Doo, which he has really enjoyed but it hasn't sucked him and consumed him like it did last summer when he was watching these alien superhero action cartoons. It has been interesting how much he has actually learned and picked up on from cartoons this year. He continues to blur the lines of reality and doesn't understand why he can't just hop into cartoon life and do what they do, like knock his head and get a huge bump which visibly throbs or get run over by a car and get flattened and then pick himself up and re-inflate. It all makes for some funny conversations!
OK the beach packing calls!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
African Hope VBS
Pappa Sele leads the train with the chant "We are happy! We are happy!" and they really are!
Singing and dancing the Bambaylayla
(Hold onto Jesus.) Caleb studying GJ's
moves hoping to get it just right.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
A New Week
VBS One ended on Thursday afternoon, Friday I sent the group and Caleb off to the Pyramids and I got set and ready for church. The group attended the Africa Live service along with all 200 of the VBS kids, the kids sang their songs, danced their dances and recited their verses. Then I shuttled people to various locations to rest or shop whilst I returned to church for the next service and Friday School with a small summer group at the 5 pm service. Church finishes I race to collect everyone and we head to the bowels of the city for dinner with the African leaders. Everyone squished into a hot cramped apartment and listened to Shakira over and over and over again. Dinner over take everyone home and myself and Caleb to bed. Next day up early over to the hotel bus awaits the group to take them sightseeing. Fight with security about why if they insist we need a security officer on the bus, then why not arrange it as soon as you see the bus appear rather than waiting until everyone gets on the bus to begin and ask questions. Make us wait 1 hour while the find a officer to escort us, THEN said officer wants a tip!!!! While group is out I care for one of the sick members, clean up house of many supplies strew around and then head to airport to get a new group of people coming in for the next week of VBS. Take them to eat a dinner leave dinner a few minutes early to zip over to hotel, shuttle people and bags to the bus, which can't get up close to hotel because of untrimmed trees, pay the driver give lots of hugs and say goodbye. Return to group eating dinner, wrap that up solve a few emergencies on the phone and finally go to bed.
Now it is Sunday and VBS starts all over again!!
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