Hi everyone!
I'ts time for another post as we ponder WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE???
The last two weekends have been quite full for both of us, and we're just trying to catch our breath (literally; we have colds and Stephen has lost his voice.)
What have we been up to? Well, I'm glad you asked....
On Friday 12 October we drove to Adelaide. We left so early that we were in Horsham by 10.20am. The advantage of this was that we could have breakfast....and by the time we finished, the lunch menu was up. Hello, chicken nuggets! Anyway....we got to Adelaide safely, staying with Sarah's parents.
On Saturday was the occasion for which we drove over: attending our friends' wedding (congratulations Nicole and Scott!). Stephen was MC at the reception, receiving lots of compliments for his work, including encouragement to go into radio! We also presented two songs for Nicole and Scott during the reception, which was a privilege to do.
On Sunday we highly enjoyed making a surprise visit to Trinity Bay and our hearts were well and truly warmed by the loving reception from our church family there. The afternoon was a good chance to relax, catch up with the minister, John, and then spend time with our god daughter, Adele.
All too soon, we had to leave on the Monday and swung into Coburg around 9.30pm. The next day Stephen had his New Testament lecture in the morning.
The week flew by with the usual lectures, singing at chapel on Thursday morning and learning more about Jesus, the early church and the gospel for battler culture.
The weekend just gone was yet another full one.
On Saturday we enjoyed a lovely lunch with Stephen's Grandma for the special occasion of her 90th birthday! She especially enjoyed meeting Hamish, one of Stephen's favourite puppets - becoming quite cheeky with him!
We then drove from Port Melbourne to Blackburn for a singing
practice with our acapella quartet and then onto Scotch College in Hawthorn,
for what might be the highlight of my year: the Stuart Townend concert.
Stuey (as I affectionately call him) is one of my favourite
Christian congregational song writers. His melodies are easily sung and quick
to learn and the lyrics are just beautiful. He’s well known for How Deep the
Father’s Love, In Christ Alone, Speak O Lord, etc. We’ve enjoyed listening to
his latest album The Journey for quite awhile, and it was a joy to
hear some of these rousing songs played life. We were also particularly blessed
to hear pieces from his band members, notably Mark Edwards, an incredible jazz pianist and Julian Ferraretto,
violin.
Finally, yesterday our acapella group sang at a concert in Sunbury, organised by Stephen's mum to raise money for the chaplains who work at Sunbury schools. We were the 'guest artists' to the main performers - the Melbourne Male Voice Praise Choir. It was very much the 'pleasant Sunday afternoon' kind of affair, and the songs we presented were much appreciated.
Which brings me today! This the first day of Sarah's last week at Ridley, and Stephen's last week of Semester 2. We have 4 lectures left, Sarah has 3000 words to write, and Stephen has 2400. Next week will be Swot Vac: hitting the books hard to study for exams, followed by exam week. We each have three to write.
There's lots to pray for!
Please praise God with us for:
- A safe and lovely trip to Adelaide, being able to catch up with friends and be encouraged by our Trinity Bay church community
- The time we've had to study together at Ridley. It's been a unique year to be together so often and so involved in each other's days. I don't think we'll ever do anything quite like it again.
- Continued settling into and growing involvement with St Jude's Parkville, and ongoing relationship building that's happening.
Please pray with us for:
- Healing from our colds and coughs! And a return to full voice for Stephen.
- Hearts and minds that will study well and ingest our learning well enough to regurgitate it for exams, and that we'd be equipped for ministry though it.
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