The Great Adventure

Our Mission Team that went to Tanzania in June/July put on a Day Camp for elementary school age kids at Hopac school.
We used a packaged version that Hillside Church used a couple of years ago that was called "The Great Adventure". This song got stuck in our heads and you can see why!

Traveling In Dar

Just a little video I shot in Dar while driving. Gives you a little idea what it is/was like.

Sailing Day

Our local Kiwanis Club owns several sailboats that they keep at Lake Cunningham. They give lessons to various groups at Sailing Camp every summer and some of our kids from FD have taken lessons over the years. This particular Saturday was an end of the season celebration and a chance for the kids to go out sailing for the day. Below is Rayshaun, Javier, Ronnie, and Ruben. They have all passed their sailing lessons and took Patty and me out sailing.

Ruben and Ronnie going out to catch a breeze.

This is Travis helping Ronnie put his sail up on his Sunfish.

It was fun. They are not supposed to capsize the boats but what's the point of going sailing if you don't lose control of your boat and tip over and get wet! All accidentally of course!
The kids can go sailing on Saturdays for free through the Kiwanis Club. I need to take advantage of this more often. (I love to sail).

zoo

Back in July (yes, this is a late post) 25 of us went to the San Francisco Zoo. What fun! Some of the kids had never been there before. Here's several pictures of the small group that I (Patty) was with.

The tigers were a big hit with all of us. There were 3 baby cubs born last March. They were so cute to watch as they all played with the mom. I wanted to of course take one home with me.

The last picture is our group picture.

Circus

Barnum and Bailey's Ringling Brothers Circus came to town a couple of weeks back. We got a call asking if we'd like tickets and we had a free night so we said yes. Little did we know the tickets were for a Penthouse Suite ($95 per ticket). We took 4 girls and had a lot of fun.
Here we are just chillin.

We found out that if we went early we could see some of the animals outside in the parking lot. We saw the elephants (one is 40 years old and weighs almost 12 tons!), horses, and the tigers. Then we were able to go inside and be down on the floor and watch and visit with the performers. We also were able to get their autographs. The problem with the Suite is that it is way up at the top away from the action but it still was cool.

Here is a picture of our neighbors that we took to the circus. (L to R) Maria, Jasmine, Angie, and Inez.

Bicycle Jump

It has been awhile since I have done an update here. Sorry. I will start with a video from our weekend at Hume Lake and the bicycle jump off the end of the pier. Nobody in the video is someone I know but it was fun to watch. I got a great seat near the landing and I was surprised how good of a seat it was. The first guy jumped and I almost got wet! I realized that must have been why nobody was sitting there! But none of the other jumpers got close to getting me wet.
( I added the music).




It was a great weekend to get away and enjoy the mountains. It was the first time that Patty and I have been there in the summer. We have been at many winter camps with the high school group and this was cool. The students are more serious about their walk and we were not there as staff. We were just like another college person.
The speaker was Josh Riebock from Austin Texas. He was new to Hume.
One of the sessions he was sharing from the story of Jesus turning the water to wine at a wedding. During the feast they ran out of wine. Jesus asked the servants to go fill up the jars with water and then draw some out and take it to the master. That is all they were asked to do. Nothing else. Fill the jars and then take what they thought was water to the master. Jesus would do the rest. Too often we try to do too much on our own power. We need to just hear and obey. Nothing else. Sometimes things are real simple what we are asked to do and we can't believe it. There has to be more. Nope. He does the work. We are just the servants. The hands and feet.