Lectures this week were delivered from Peter Thomsett who is a school Chaplin from Sydney and he spoke on evangelism but because he was travelling each time we only had 8 lectures from him. They were great though and he gave us a great booklet that he developed called ‘Harvesting harvesters’. It was a week that I had to do a bible study on this topic so I pick Matthew 28:19-20 and really enjoyed my time researching for the study.
Monday was a lengthy but informative visit to the GP with the other 3 students going to India. The doctor was so helpful in letting us know what to avoid and how to avoid it and I was really pleased to have organised it.
‘Quiet Day’ at Capernwray was Tuesday and I finished reading a great book called The Saving Life of Christ. Then I read the whole of Deuteronomy and was quite depressed by the end of it. There is Moses, warning his people of how to stay out of trouble over and over again and then at the end of the book God says to Moses – you know what Moses, these people are going to do all those dumb things anyway – and what made me more depressed was that I understood exactly how that feels when I say the same thing over and over to my kids and they do the dumb things anyway! BUT that night all the students and staff got together to share and I was so encouraged to remember that God is in our every day and today is the day that matters – even though dumb stuff happens, God gets us through it all – Forgiving us and teaching us and loving us! What a great God!
Garth attempted to sell Brownies through the church – the first time was successful, the second left us with unsold batches. So, he has discovered that it is not the way to start a business and perhaps we need to get a Face Book Page going and then just cook to orders...what do you think? Otherwise for the most part of the week Garth just followed the routine and assimilated the knowledge that he didn't have his wife around for 1 day last weekend, the whole weekend this week and then the entire week the week after and THEN for 3 weeks in July!!!! Crazy!
Monday was a lengthy but informative visit to the GP with the other 3 students going to India. The doctor was so helpful in letting us know what to avoid and how to avoid it and I was really pleased to have organised it.
‘Quiet Day’ at Capernwray was Tuesday and I finished reading a great book called The Saving Life of Christ. Then I read the whole of Deuteronomy and was quite depressed by the end of it. There is Moses, warning his people of how to stay out of trouble over and over again and then at the end of the book God says to Moses – you know what Moses, these people are going to do all those dumb things anyway – and what made me more depressed was that I understood exactly how that feels when I say the same thing over and over to my kids and they do the dumb things anyway! BUT that night all the students and staff got together to share and I was so encouraged to remember that God is in our every day and today is the day that matters – even though dumb stuff happens, God gets us through it all – Forgiving us and teaching us and loving us! What a great God!
Garth attempted to sell Brownies through the church – the first time was successful, the second left us with unsold batches. So, he has discovered that it is not the way to start a business and perhaps we need to get a Face Book Page going and then just cook to orders...what do you think? Otherwise for the most part of the week Garth just followed the routine and assimilated the knowledge that he didn't have his wife around for 1 day last weekend, the whole weekend this week and then the entire week the week after and THEN for 3 weeks in July!!!! Crazy!
Kael had a fun excursion this week to the Maritime Museum with his class at school. He came home suitably tired and full of outrageous stories! He is such a great story teller - we just wish he could spit his words out with a bit more clarity sometimes, but his passion to get the the end of the story overcomes the need to say all the words properly.
I have to admit thoug
h, that the highlight for me this week was the CWCI women’s convention that I attended near Yass. I travelled down with some of my dearest friends and the whole weekend was such a great time of catching up with them. The theme for the weekend was ‘where is your focus?’ and the speaker lead her talks based on the differences between King Saul and King David – and it was awesome! I felt like I should be in lectures again and I could have easily taken pages of notes but thankfully the speaker was happy to send me her notes so I look forward to receiving them. The food at the camp site was fabulous and the fellowship with all those Godly women was amazing. What a great ministry CWCI is!
I have to admit thoug
h, that the highlight for me this week was the CWCI women’s convention that I attended near Yass. I travelled down with some of my dearest friends and the whole weekend was such a great time of catching up with them. The theme for the weekend was ‘where is your focus?’ and the speaker lead her talks based on the differences between King Saul and King David – and it was awesome! I felt like I should be in lectures again and I could have easily taken pages of notes but thankfully the speaker was happy to send me her notes so I look forward to receiving them. The food at the camp site was fabulous and the fellowship with all those Godly women was amazing. What a great ministry CWCI is! 
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