A Lazy Saturday Morning

Enjoying a nice slow start to the morning after a late night movie session. A couple of friends came over last night after church to watch a movie I had rented called "My Name is Khan." I had not given much thought when I rented it but it sounded interesting enough and it was for the first 1 1/2 hours and then it degenerated into the dumbest most contrived movie ever. I have never watched a movie that started out so well and then just fell apart. It had an obvious agenda about anti Muslim attitudes in America after 9/11 and made Americans appear like obvious idiots where as I believe we are much more subtle in our idiocy. Thankfully in the comfort of my own home I could offer a bold running commentary to relieve my angst. I would say that the acting was excellent they were just at the mercy of a bad script.
Tonight I am celebrating my birthday a week late but much better rested than last week. We start our Saturday night services back up tonight which doesn't thrill me but I will only work it until first of Sept when all the teachers get back into gear.
So that is all for now!

One Wild Week Wore Me Out!

Man talk about feeling your age! This last week was the last of our summer events I called it "One Wild Week" and boy was it. We did it in the place of a traditional VBS program so it was VBS style in the morning and then at 10:30 each day we loaded up 2 buses and went on an adventure to Science Museum (not a big hit) Reptile Farm (A huge hit!) Aqua Park, Fagnoon Art Center and Pharonic Village. We had lots of non church kids as it fell on the week before CAC opened and all the CAC teachers with young kids were delighted to have something to offer their kids. The teaching material was very simple and straight to the gospel point and a number of kids made a decision which just made all the work well worth it. It also had fantastic music which I will try and load. The material was put out by an accapella singing group called Go Fish, I highly recommend! We closed with a short performance at church on Friday night and I spent literally all day Sat. lounging and accomplishing nothing and it felt so good.

Today is the first day of school for the American School, so it signals the start of a new year. My new youth guy is here and in place and already doing a fantastic job. I am very excited about what the new year holds, I have a great group of youth volunteers and well on my well to a full Friday/Saturday School staff and maybe just maybe this year will be the best ever!
I have been reading and studying in the book of Acts for the Women's Bible Study I am leading in the fall and have been impressed/reminded yet again of the simple power of the good news to radically change lives. After reading Peter's defense of the the faith, no jokes pithy stories or smooth pedaling and the result was 3000 converts that day, I have a strong desire to see something significant happen this year, whether it is in the lives of women, youth or kids I am praying for eternal decisions!

Home Sweet Home

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.)

A Breath of Fresh Air