Sorori-Tea

Saturday afternoon presented a wonderful opportunity for us to change into our better clothing, (including a tie for Papa Steve, which as I am sure most of you are aware is definitely one of his favorite things), and go to the Founders Day Alpha Delta Pi Tea.

There were some pretty good things to eat. A big highlight was the chocolate fountain, which looked like it had blue chocolate in it, but Katie let us know that is was really "white chocolate, but it's blue." In this picture I am concerned about the plate capacity. I am not sure that the girls correctly calculated the load limit.



Katie and Staci both got roses as new members.

I'll put Katie's rose picture up first, since they always do these things alphabetically, and she is usually at the end, I think she deserves to go first.


Staci was still a little bit hungry....




On the way out the girls noticed that there was a cookie bouquet that they somehow missed on the way in.



All told it was only about an hour or so, and was not that bad, so far as sitting around in a tie goes.

Prison Trip Recap

Sorry I am just now getting around to this, but we had a great time last weekend on the prison trip. (And, yes, they let us back out, although it is decidedly easier to get into prisons than it is to get out.) Jan and I did, I think, an admirable job as grown-ups. (My impersonation of Ed W. singing Sir Mix-a-Lot notwithstanding) That is to say, no one was maimed or otherwise seriously injured, and we had a good time, so that qualifies as a successful trip in my book.

F'real though, beyond having a lot of fun on the bus (and what happens on the bus, stays on the bus), the College Singers and Ringers did a wonderful job bringing the meaning of the Easter season to the prisoners. The dramas were dramatic, the music was musical and the bells were bell-rific. I hoped to have some pictures to share, but that will have to wait until I get some from B-Hoody and the "kids" (as Uncle Chucky called them) from the trip.

As a side comment, there were a lot more prisoners this trip, than any other that I have been on in the past, that came up to me and told me that they were from Waco, and that they were planning on coming to our church when they were released, and others asking for our church address so that they can write to us.

***UPDATE!!!***
I forgot about this picture of the Hood-lums that was on my phone. So here is your picture from the weekend.

Prison Bound

Jan and I are off to prison tomorrow with the College Choir, Chuck, Toph, the Hoods and the Marshalls. Please pray for this group as they share with our brothers and sisters in chains. This is always a great trip because it is such a joy to be there as these eager folks join us in worship, and we are allowed to reflect on how very little difference there is in our lives and theirs. We all have fallen into sin at times in the past, and only by the grace of God are we restored. Thank God, that although the immediate consequences of our actions are unavoidable, the eternal consequences have been eliminated through His ultimate sacrifice. And what better time of the year to have all of these thoughts than the weekend when we honor the memory of what He has done for us, even before we were willing to acknowledge Him as Lord.

Rom 5:1-2 (NCV) "Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has brought us into that blessing of God's grace that we now enjoy. And we are happy because of the hope we have of sharing God's glory."

Rom 5:6 "When we were unable to help ourselves, at the moment of our need, Christ died for us, although we were living against God."

Krackuh a celebrity?

I was watching Frasier tonight in my hotel room, and an advertisement for something called "Lip Explosion" came on, and I think that Krackuh has been moonlighting as a lip model, but here are the lips from their website, so you can decide yourself.



Honestly, I do not know what this product allegedly does, but the website says that it "is the first non-burning, non-drying, non-chafing, instant lip plumper."

Is this really something that the world could not get by without, a lip plumper? Also do you think that the result of using this product is that your lips are stuck in the position displayed in the picture?

Shake Your Body

Do we serve an AMAZING God or what?? We were so blessed by these children..I can't even begin to explain it.





We hosted some of the Mwangaza Children's Choir this weekend. We had three boys; Ivan, Abbey and Godfrey and the choir director, Alex. We went to visit Suzanne and family for dinner. Here you see the boys teaching us some moves.

More pictures coming later.

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