Thursday, July 06, 2006
May Team Things
Well, May sure was a busy month! The first two weeks were pretty typical weeks, with school, piano lessons, ladies' Bible studies at town church and youth nights.
We started having serious ladies' meetings around the 2nd week of May in preparation for Dr. Vann Rackley to come. He has been working with our team since before they came many years ago and has made a few trips to Africa since.
Team worship on the 13th was a little different. Nick had all the children create and bring something to worship. And what a wide variety of things we got! The whole worship centered around praising God using the gifts He has given us...in ALL we do. Three-year-old Savannah Naramore praised God by being helpful and helping to change her little sister's diaper. Sarah Nell praised God by giving hugs and kisses to people. The kindergarteners and preschoolers praised God in song and dance. Several kids created pictures or drawings. Curt Baker created a crane out of k-nex; Luke Fouts created some type of motorized car; Elizabeth Fouts created a picture frame...okay, so you get the point. Anyhow, it was great!
I got to spend a day with the Glisson children while Scott and Emily went to Fort Portal to work on adoption papers for Ansley. It sure was fun! Check out our pictures!!
We had a great Girls' Night Out on the 19th, our last one before the summer. We got to see the video of Amy Naramore giving birth to Jon David--YIKES!--makes me want to have a c-section or adopt! On the 20th, we had a special farewell to one of our teachers, Amy Howard. It was sad, but funny to see Amy Naramore's acting abilities as she starred in a skit which she wrote and produced! Man, that girl is talented!!
The guys left immediately following worship to go on a "guys weekend" of rafting, golfing, etc. in Kampala and Jinja before picking up Dr. Vann Rackley who arrived on the 23rd. During this time, I stayed at the Naramores with Amy and her 3 small children. It was lots of fun and Amy said I'm a better bed-partner than her husband--in that I don't move around or snore!
So, while I was playing "house" with Amy and her family, the guys were off rafting the Nile River in Jinja. Unfortunately in their macho-ness, they flipped their raft one too many times and Danny sliced open his knee pretty badly. I guess that put a slight damper on their weekend...having to end their rafting adventure early and spend time in the hospital in Kampala. They even spent the night with the female missionaries in Kampala---since one's a doctor and the other is a nurse! Ellen and Darla were very helpful!!
They all made it back to Mbarara on the 23rd with Vann and we had a lovely team dinner at the Fouts. Then there were lots of meetings and sessions--both group, couples and individuals--with Vann fo the next 5 days.
At the same time, it was our last week of school. We had a great field day on the 26th, followed by an afternoon of swimming at Lake View. What a great way to end the school year! For field day, we had lots of great games, my favorite being "chubby bunny". I think the kids liked this one too because they got to eat marshmallows! They also loved the water balloon toss. Of course, it was extra special that Davis and Briley's balloon was the last to pop--and it was only after we intentionally threw it on the ground HARD to break it. But to hear their delighted screaming each time they threw it to each other and it fell on the ground but DIDN'T break was one of the highlights of the day.
Saturday the 27th, Terri and Amy left to go pick up Amy's brother and sister-in-law who were coming for a visit. I spent the day in the kitchen cleaning and re-organizing things. Then I rushed over to the Bakers to cook dinner for them.
Terri and Amy returned with Daniel and Amanda on Monday the 29th to a vegetable lasagne, but I couldn't eat with them because they were so late. I had to run out the door to babysit the Bakers so the SF group could have one last meeting.
Tuesday morning, I left early in the morning with Andrea and Lori to go to Kampala to shop for interns. We had a great time! Ate at a new Korean restaurant for lunch; spent the night with Darla and Ellen; visited with Heidi from Mbale. GREAT girls get-away trip...but also got lots accomplished-like buying my gas stove and food for our interns!
And that is the end of the month of MAY! PLEASE check out the pictures that go with all this stuff on my picture website.....
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bethellent/my_photos
look at the "May Team Things" folder........
We started having serious ladies' meetings around the 2nd week of May in preparation for Dr. Vann Rackley to come. He has been working with our team since before they came many years ago and has made a few trips to Africa since.
Team worship on the 13th was a little different. Nick had all the children create and bring something to worship. And what a wide variety of things we got! The whole worship centered around praising God using the gifts He has given us...in ALL we do. Three-year-old Savannah Naramore praised God by being helpful and helping to change her little sister's diaper. Sarah Nell praised God by giving hugs and kisses to people. The kindergarteners and preschoolers praised God in song and dance. Several kids created pictures or drawings. Curt Baker created a crane out of k-nex; Luke Fouts created some type of motorized car; Elizabeth Fouts created a picture frame...okay, so you get the point. Anyhow, it was great!
I got to spend a day with the Glisson children while Scott and Emily went to Fort Portal to work on adoption papers for Ansley. It sure was fun! Check out our pictures!!
We had a great Girls' Night Out on the 19th, our last one before the summer. We got to see the video of Amy Naramore giving birth to Jon David--YIKES!--makes me want to have a c-section or adopt! On the 20th, we had a special farewell to one of our teachers, Amy Howard. It was sad, but funny to see Amy Naramore's acting abilities as she starred in a skit which she wrote and produced! Man, that girl is talented!!
The guys left immediately following worship to go on a "guys weekend" of rafting, golfing, etc. in Kampala and Jinja before picking up Dr. Vann Rackley who arrived on the 23rd. During this time, I stayed at the Naramores with Amy and her 3 small children. It was lots of fun and Amy said I'm a better bed-partner than her husband--in that I don't move around or snore!
So, while I was playing "house" with Amy and her family, the guys were off rafting the Nile River in Jinja. Unfortunately in their macho-ness, they flipped their raft one too many times and Danny sliced open his knee pretty badly. I guess that put a slight damper on their weekend...having to end their rafting adventure early and spend time in the hospital in Kampala. They even spent the night with the female missionaries in Kampala---since one's a doctor and the other is a nurse! Ellen and Darla were very helpful!!
They all made it back to Mbarara on the 23rd with Vann and we had a lovely team dinner at the Fouts. Then there were lots of meetings and sessions--both group, couples and individuals--with Vann fo the next 5 days.
At the same time, it was our last week of school. We had a great field day on the 26th, followed by an afternoon of swimming at Lake View. What a great way to end the school year! For field day, we had lots of great games, my favorite being "chubby bunny". I think the kids liked this one too because they got to eat marshmallows! They also loved the water balloon toss. Of course, it was extra special that Davis and Briley's balloon was the last to pop--and it was only after we intentionally threw it on the ground HARD to break it. But to hear their delighted screaming each time they threw it to each other and it fell on the ground but DIDN'T break was one of the highlights of the day.
Saturday the 27th, Terri and Amy left to go pick up Amy's brother and sister-in-law who were coming for a visit. I spent the day in the kitchen cleaning and re-organizing things. Then I rushed over to the Bakers to cook dinner for them.
Terri and Amy returned with Daniel and Amanda on Monday the 29th to a vegetable lasagne, but I couldn't eat with them because they were so late. I had to run out the door to babysit the Bakers so the SF group could have one last meeting.
Tuesday morning, I left early in the morning with Andrea and Lori to go to Kampala to shop for interns. We had a great time! Ate at a new Korean restaurant for lunch; spent the night with Darla and Ellen; visited with Heidi from Mbale. GREAT girls get-away trip...but also got lots accomplished-like buying my gas stove and food for our interns!
And that is the end of the month of MAY! PLEASE check out the pictures that go with all this stuff on my picture website.....
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bethellent/my_photos
look at the "May Team Things" folder........
# posted by beth @ 11:47 AM 
