Our church just embarked in The Forty Days of The Signs Of Life. The campaign is meant to be like a mirror showing us all how we’re doing as Christians. We are going to learn what the signs of a vibrant Christian faith are. Our pastor, David Jeremiah wrote a book with 40 daily readings for us to study for the next 40 days, the reading began yesterday. Steven and I loved it, it’s very practical and biblically sound. Church was so much fun, you could feel the buzz and the excitement.
The Five Signs of Life are:
Dusty Shoes: Living a Relevant Life
Worn-Out Kness: Living a Yielded Life
Rolled Up Sleeves: Living an Authentic Life
Open Hands: Living a Generous Life
Outstretched Arms: Living a Compassionate Life
As a way to apply Open Hands, on March 24th we are going to give an Extreme Makeover to the Logan Elementry School campus in Down Town SD. Last night at church we had the kick off for this event. The school principal, teachers and staff were all there. Pastor St. John and Pastor Gillette have this massive event coordinated and computerized. There is something to do for everyone, furniture assembly, gardening, carpentry, landscaping, painting, banner making, administration, clean up, set up and tear down.
Pastor said, people have been asking him, “Why are you doing this?” and he tells them, “Because this is what Jesus would have us do, give and give and give to people we don’t know and to people who can’t give us nothing in return”.
Pastor Gillette asked Steven to take care of the photography, so that will be his primary responsibility. Another volunteer will be video-taping the before and after. When all the hard work is done we will celebrate with a huge picnic/concert where our church and the school staff, parents and children will all meet. WE CAN NOT WAIT!
February was a load of fun. Our friends from Minnesota the Sea-Birds, I mean the Sieberts and us went to En Fuego and took a stroll in Del Mar. Valentine’s Day was romantical and delicious. Last weekend we celebrated Mom’s Birthday at PF Changs hence the photos by the horse. Here we present a collage of fun pictures, which by the way, are not in order.
Posted by Sudi in General, Home, Places on January 17th, 2007 at 05:03pm
This morning for my devotional I read:
“Heaven and Christ are the same thing. To be with Christ is to be in heaven, and to be in heaven is to be with Christ.”
“O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a hell; and if I could be in hell, and have thee still, it would be a heaven to me, for thou art all the heaven I want.”
All we need to be blessed, supremely blessed, is “to be with Christ.”
On december 9th, my good friend Reese invited Steven and I to her CD release. It was fabulous, she is a very talented saxophone player and singer. The opening numbers before her, were very good, great gospel music. It was a night full of fun and worship. Our other friend Britt was there and we all had a great time.
Ready to Go Out
Britt and Sudste
Sudi and Reese
Last week my honey took some beautiful pictures of the sunset and I have included one of them. This past Saturday, on December 16th I was invited to a Tea Party. I had never been to one. It was wonderful, I had Candy Cane Lane Tea and Cranberry-Orange Scones.
San Diego Sunset
Tea Party
Fun Times Ahead
Yesterday, I was able to sing with the choir at church, we sang from Handel’s Messiah, the Hallelujah Chorus, it was so much fun. I loooooove singing! After the service we took some nice pictures in front of a Christmas tree. It was a cold morning.
Posted by Steven in Places on December 11th, 2006 at 03:29pm
I was browsing Google Maps using Satellite view today. I ended up on a big hill in Tijuana that I thought looked like a volcano and discovered this. It says “Jesucristo es El Senor” which Sudi tells me means “Jesus is The Lord”. Cool huh? I submitted it to the Google Sightseeing site for their consideration.
This is the first and only blog post I can categorize as “Home” and “Places” at the same time. On clear days I like to peek outside our bedroom window to see if I can see Mt. Helix. Today is especially clear… and with pretty trees. This is the same shot at different zoom levels.
Our trip to Puerto Vallarta was unforgetable. We ate the most delicious food, enjoyed beautiful sunsets, had a great time with Lucy and friends and rested. We also celebrated our third wedding anniversary on September 8th. It was truly wonderful. We created 6 galleries, click on the pictures below, they will take you to all the pictures on that category. Enjoy!
