*weekend*
the photos from the sna junk trip are up!! go and take a looksy on my imagestation.
it has been an unbelievably busy and blessed weekend. it started friday night with a great dinner with the little reads at taco loco (mmmm frijoles..). so good to catch up with those guys. it's scary just how co-dependent derek and tom are. goes to show what 11 years of friendship do to you... afterwards we caught up with the rest of the world (well just matt & gang) at the tsim sha tsui waterfront and had some good impromptu worship. i guess it shouldn't surprise me that we drew such a crowd. a large group of mixed asians & gwailos with ridiculously good guitarists and djembe players singing their hearts out.... all for an audience of One. i met a really cool taxi driver name chong kam sing. he was so enraptured by our singing. i hope one day he becomes even more enraptured by the subject of our songs.
saturday was the sna junk trip, and it was a nice surprise to see so many new faces out. unfortunately many of those are boarders (as in boarding school), so they won't be sticking around in september. still, i have a great feeling about sna this year.... :) for the first time this summer, I DID NOT GET SUNBURNT! i guess that sunscreen stuff really works... we went to clearwater bay and lo and behold, the water was clear! we had tons of fun just lazing around and smearing creamcheese into people's hair. got back around 6pm, went home to shower and change. caught up with nathan's birthday party at the fringe and got to chat with vinny and emi. (i guess it's been kind of a couple's weekend...) i had nearly 2 plates of bbq goodies. but they ran out of the original sauce so i couldn't fulfill my end of the bargain. next time, gotta make sure they have enough satay sauce.... i had to ditch early because there was a fundraiser for KELY at 1/5. i had to go represent and sell sell sell. hey, at least i got to meet carl from the carlsberg ads. and derek put the fear of god in him... hehee. as usual, we had a full house at the 'haven' with fion, jenny cheng, and kim. i love being able to have slumber parties every saturday... :)
church was so awesome on sunday. we just started on a series focused on "purity" and it's soooooo good. read psalm 24 if you get a minute. simply full on. afterwards derek and i went to visit the guys at 'solomon's porch,' formerly known as 'em' (english ministry of the hong kong korean church) out in sheung wan. they've got a new pastor and he's pretty full on. i love it. he's really done a great job in the last 6 months shepherding and inspiring them to live loud. he's taking a small team to uzbekistan this week, so if you get (another) minute, please remember them in your prayers. that's pastor samuel song and team. it was great to catch up with people like annie, charles, jenny yeh, sarah, and marcus and jimmy stewart. i also met another ywamer :) after solomon's porch, i caught up with ann, alison and gabby at ann's house and chilled for a bit. we were going to go to the show at the science museum, but realizing it was going to cost $60, gabby and i decided to wander through ladies' market instead. a much cheaper option.
so, pretty packed. but so good. i felt like i got to catch up with a lot of people, which is always good. there are many things that are good. 'sago with many mango' is good. seeing old friends is good. soaking in the sun is good. life is good. but God, oh he's great....
the photos from the sna junk trip are up!! go and take a looksy on my imagestation.
it has been an unbelievably busy and blessed weekend. it started friday night with a great dinner with the little reads at taco loco (mmmm frijoles..). so good to catch up with those guys. it's scary just how co-dependent derek and tom are. goes to show what 11 years of friendship do to you... afterwards we caught up with the rest of the world (well just matt & gang) at the tsim sha tsui waterfront and had some good impromptu worship. i guess it shouldn't surprise me that we drew such a crowd. a large group of mixed asians & gwailos with ridiculously good guitarists and djembe players singing their hearts out.... all for an audience of One. i met a really cool taxi driver name chong kam sing. he was so enraptured by our singing. i hope one day he becomes even more enraptured by the subject of our songs.
saturday was the sna junk trip, and it was a nice surprise to see so many new faces out. unfortunately many of those are boarders (as in boarding school), so they won't be sticking around in september. still, i have a great feeling about sna this year.... :) for the first time this summer, I DID NOT GET SUNBURNT! i guess that sunscreen stuff really works... we went to clearwater bay and lo and behold, the water was clear! we had tons of fun just lazing around and smearing creamcheese into people's hair. got back around 6pm, went home to shower and change. caught up with nathan's birthday party at the fringe and got to chat with vinny and emi. (i guess it's been kind of a couple's weekend...) i had nearly 2 plates of bbq goodies. but they ran out of the original sauce so i couldn't fulfill my end of the bargain. next time, gotta make sure they have enough satay sauce.... i had to ditch early because there was a fundraiser for KELY at 1/5. i had to go represent and sell sell sell. hey, at least i got to meet carl from the carlsberg ads. and derek put the fear of god in him... hehee. as usual, we had a full house at the 'haven' with fion, jenny cheng, and kim. i love being able to have slumber parties every saturday... :)
church was so awesome on sunday. we just started on a series focused on "purity" and it's soooooo good. read psalm 24 if you get a minute. simply full on. afterwards derek and i went to visit the guys at 'solomon's porch,' formerly known as 'em' (english ministry of the hong kong korean church) out in sheung wan. they've got a new pastor and he's pretty full on. i love it. he's really done a great job in the last 6 months shepherding and inspiring them to live loud. he's taking a small team to uzbekistan this week, so if you get (another) minute, please remember them in your prayers. that's pastor samuel song and team. it was great to catch up with people like annie, charles, jenny yeh, sarah, and marcus and jimmy stewart. i also met another ywamer :) after solomon's porch, i caught up with ann, alison and gabby at ann's house and chilled for a bit. we were going to go to the show at the science museum, but realizing it was going to cost $60, gabby and i decided to wander through ladies' market instead. a much cheaper option.
so, pretty packed. but so good. i felt like i got to catch up with a lot of people, which is always good. there are many things that are good. 'sago with many mango' is good. seeing old friends is good. soaking in the sun is good. life is good. but God, oh he's great....
posted by jana* at 2:55 AM
