A Week in the Life: Sunday

Sunday morning means fellowship at the International Fellowship.  I'm not kidding when I say this is a highlight of the week.  Mark and I head over early since Mark is on the worship team and I am in charge of the sound team. 

We live only about 10+ minutes away from there and we have a key so we usually are the ones who unlock the doors.  The musicians and singers all show up around 9am.  I don't know if you've gotten to hang around musicians much, but they are a lot of fun and there is a lot of friendly give and take as they set up and we get the mikes working.  This week was James on drums ( a new person to the fellowship), Dee leading from keyboard, she is awesome.  Mark on acoustic guitar.  Kevin on sax.  Another Kevin on bass.  Sam and Olivia singing backup.  And Tim on Djembe.  We are really blessed with a good group of really talented musicians to draw from.  They are really professional level. 

About a half an hour into practice, dearly loved friend, Angela comes in to make the coffee for the fellowship.  She is greatly appreciated as you can imagine. 

The name International Fellowship is no misnomer, since there are people from many nations that come together there.  The sanctuary is decorated with at least 31 flags,  there are or have been people in the fellowship from each one of these places and several more besides.  I really love the international flavor of this congregation.  We have so many people from South and Central America that we have a Spanish translator for the service. 

Before the service I connected with the girl I am helping with homeschooling that I mentioned earlier this week.  This will be the week she begins.  We are going to meet again after this week to get a sense of how things are going for her.  

There is no single speaker, since there are so many great people there who have great things to share.  From week to week it can be anyone from the congregation or someone who is passing through.  We have a rich variety to learn from.  Yesterday the man of the hour was Robert from Ireland. 

Yesterday I heard Seth (the NOT social butterfly) say something I never thought I'd hear him say.  "Well, I'm going to socialize for a bit now".  :-O.  WHO are you and WHAT did you do with my son?!?!

After service and the requisite hanging out, connecting time with everyone, we headed out for lunch.  I'm NOT a fast food fan.  However, I do have a teenage son, so for his sake we cave once in a while.  So yesterday we headed to McD's.  A friend, Hetty, from The Netherlands came along with us and we got a chance to catch up over our fries and burgers.  She is facing some real challenges with the work she does and was sharing some of the details with us. 

We finally made it home around 2:30.  I don't know what it is about Sunday, but we are usually wiped out by the time we get home.  So we do as little as possible for the rest of the day.  I spent time blogging, Mark's activity of choice was a long nap (he woke up at 4:30 am so probably a good idea, insomnia's a drag).

In the evening we watched the movie "Pay It Forward" for the first time.  I know, I know, old movie, but we'd never seen it.  We really liked it and for Seth and I is sparked some good conversation.

Well, there you have it.  A week in our life.  I can't say it is especially typical because things can be really random here and you really never know what will arise each day, but I hope it gives you a sense of the things we do and daily life for us. 

I'm looking forward to the week ahead.  I've got some different things scheduled and am seeing more and more opportunities arising.

Questions?  Comments?  Let me know what you are thinking.