Here is a video that Jeremy put together of our time in Africa. I am still working on a presentation, but this will have to do for now!
South Africa 2012 from Jeremy Taylor on Vimeo.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Periwinkle Gala
On Saturday night, Russell and I had the opportunity to go to the Periwinkle Gala. Russell’s mom, Kathy is on the board for the Periwinkle Foundation, which is a camp for kids with cancer. Every year they have a fundraising gala to help raise funds so kids can go to camp. This years theme was circus. And we were met out front by this guy:
Complete with marching band.
Some impressive balloon work (better than anything we could do in Africa)
It was a fun night. There were some carnival game. For $50 you could go “fishing” for a gift bag. Russell won a camera!! And a strong man competition.
Inside the ballroom there was a silent auction going on. Russell and I got in on the action. In the end we didn’t end up winning any of our bids.
After dinner they also had a live auction. I will just remind you that the most of the people here were doctors, so one of the items (a private jet ride) went for $22,000. Russell and I were a bit out of our league.
They also bid for campers. Starting off with $10,000 to sponsor a whole cabin (it costs $1000 per camper). Russell and I finally joined in for half a camper. lol. Hey we tried!
We had a blast!
C3
On Friday out church put together an event called C3, which stands for Coffee, Calories, and Conversation. It is an event for women. I had never been, but one of the ladies at church asked if I would be a table leader to represent Fry Road. I said ok. I asked my friend Cody to come with me.
Over 400 ladies signed up to be there.
My table!
Our calories for the evening.
It was a fun night, it was great to meet some ladies from the Jones Road campus. It reminded me a lot of my ASC (Aggie Sisters for Christ) days. I am definitely looking forward to going to more women's ministry events at church!
First Worship
Last Sunday we were able to meet out at our church’s property to have a worship service and pray over the land. A couple of months ago our church voted 96% yes to go ahead and start building on the 100 acres. For the longest time this is all we saw on the property.
However, last Sunday they set up a big tent and invited the leaders at both the Jones and Fry Road campus to come out.
Lots of people excited about what God is doing in Cypress!!
Then we were able to walk around the property and pray over it. We were lucky and prayed with the Mathew’s family.
We are devoted to expanding the mission!!
Monday, April 9, 2012
March Madness
I know this is late, and I have been slacking with the blogging, but I just wanted to share that I won our family NCAA bracket!!
I was in last place pretty much the whole time until the very end.
Still waiting for my family members to send me my $$$ !!!!
Monday, March 19, 2012
Back from South Africa
We are back from Africa… and even survived work today. While I’m doing LOADS of laundry and getting everything situated here is the blog from the our trip that can get some of the details from the trip.
Later on in the week I will give more details from our point of view. Thanks so much for everyone's thoughts and prayers while we were abroad.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Russell’s Accident
Well we had some unexpected excitement on Friday night.
When Russell was coming home some lady t-boned him. She was turning into the Walmart parking lot, right at the same time Russell was driving by Walmart. She hit him on the driver side door and it pushed his car around so that he was up on the curb.
Thankfully he is ok—but the damage to his car is quite extensive.
Apparently Russell had to climb out through the passenger side door. People stopped and helped him- which was really nice. Or it was because he was blocking the whole street. So if you had to make a u-turn on Friday night by the Walmart…. that was us.
Russell called me after it happened. I was kind of expecting it not to be a big deal- because he had said he was ok, and because he said he was at Walmart. So when I came to the scene, I was quite shocked to say the least. I am just thankful for God’s protection on him.
The lady that hit him tried to escape. She took off into the Walmart parking lot, and then got in ANOTHER wreck in there. So obviously she is a mess. They gave her three tickets, and a warrant for her arrest for fleeing the scene.
The insurance people are going to assess the damage today. We are all pretty sure it is totaled (trust me Corvette parts are not cheap). They have already towed it to an insurance auction place- where they sell off totaled car parts. I will keep you updated…
While we were waiting on the police to figure everything out I asked Russell if he needed one last picture with his car. He said yes.
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