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Birthday, Ministry and Band

Last weekend was a busy one for us, coming to think of it, every weekend is busy for us! Vickie's band had a concert on Friday evening, Saturday, we took Tony out to his favorite restaurant to celebrate his birthday and on Sunday, I ministered in Family Banquet of one of our Kenya AG churches. The girls and I got Tony this pretty card and a pop up Titanic book. Tony is a Titanic fan - he is fascinated by the Titanic story and had even preached sermons using the Titanic! I will have to do a separate post on that book. This card wishes him almost everything he could possibly want!! Although the card wished him "Peace" the girls joked that the card is lacking one special thing that Daddy might enjoy "Peace AND Quiet"!! There's not much QUIET in our busy household!!
These other cards came from friends. These two are locally made cards. This one uses African fabric.

And this one is made with wire, beads and recycled paper. Creative huh?
Can you see Vickie in the picture below? She is second from the right on the first row. We are so proud how quickly Vickie is learning the flute. She is the only six grader flutist (??) who is promoted to Intermediate Band.
The last video turned out so well, I am tempted to post the video of her playing in the band.
Elizabeth Karanja, the Women's Ministry chaired the service. Pastor Pius is sitting next to me, his church is one of the largest Kenya AG church.

I shared for about 40 minutes on "Effective Families". I challenged the men to take leadership in their homes amongst other things. I was very encouraged by the interest shown by the attendees during my sharing.


As always, we like to give the people opportunity to respond to the Word of God. So many responded. Praise the Lord.I have a long "to do" list today ...

1. Get pictures taken for my visa to Congo

2. Two counselling sessions today, probably will take a total of about 3 hours depending on how my "clients" are doing...

3. Cooking for eight people tonight - having some good friends over with their two teenage boys - yikes! My menu include roast chicken, cola ribs -major YUM!, Chinese mushrooms, stir fry vegetable and steam rice. I made the dessert last night - Lemon Squares....

4. Meet with Bethuel to fnalise Congolese meetings.

Laundry, dishes, etc......

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Sally said…
Wow, you guys are really busy with so many things going on.

Vickie looks more n more like Kat, cannot tell them apart in the pics you posted.

Can't wait for your return so that we can meet again.........

Fong Cheah
April 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM
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