We're all going on a summer holiday lalalalalaaa.......no more posts for at least 10 days now as I and 28 members off my church are off on our jollies wooohoooo..going to Hollybush Bible camp yay..will tell all when I get back..
tata
Friday, July 28, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Busy Busy Busy
Had a really busy week last week, worked all week and was out every night..love it all!!!! On Thursday we had our end of term kids club party and youth club party complete with hot dogs and bouncy castle for both..I will hopefully post some pics on Swinton4Jesus blog soon.
On Friday we were meant to be doing aerobics at church (just a few of us) but decided that since it had been such a busy week we would do nowt instead hahaha....well that didn't happen because Christine got a phone call from DHQ to say that a plane was landing at Manchester airport at 8pm with 400 evacuees from the Lebanon on it...they needed volunteers to assist the people as they came into the airport....Christine rang me and along with about 20 others from our division we joined the red cross, st Johns, the government, social services and the housing.
We were escorted through the airport to get passes so we could go thru restriced areas, had to be frisked by the police which was funny and then taken to the gate where the plane would be landing.
Nothing prepared any of us I don't think for what these people had experienced. As they came through the doors they were greeted immediately by members of the Salvation army and we had to assess their needs..Did they have somewhere to go? Did they need to get to London? did they need accomadation? Did they need food and drink? etc I think about 100 of the people were holiday makers and were able to make their own way home, about another 200 possible needed to get to London or had relatives to go and live with and the rest well they had fled the Lebanon with nothing....their homes had been bombed and they had literally just packed what they could fit into holdalls. I was surprised that these people were actually lebanese citizens but with British passports..for some reason I had expected them all to be British who had chosen to live out there..it was a very humbling night and I struggled as I expect most of us did not to show I was upset. I am not interested in taking sides with any country as I don't know enough about what has gone on to have a proper opinion all I know is that these people had been through hell through no fault of their own...I just hope that the families that settle in this country get treated with friendliness and respect not ignorance and hostility.
thats all for now cos I have to get up for work sadly at half four grrr grrr grrr
On Friday we were meant to be doing aerobics at church (just a few of us) but decided that since it had been such a busy week we would do nowt instead hahaha....well that didn't happen because Christine got a phone call from DHQ to say that a plane was landing at Manchester airport at 8pm with 400 evacuees from the Lebanon on it...they needed volunteers to assist the people as they came into the airport....Christine rang me and along with about 20 others from our division we joined the red cross, st Johns, the government, social services and the housing.
We were escorted through the airport to get passes so we could go thru restriced areas, had to be frisked by the police which was funny and then taken to the gate where the plane would be landing.
Nothing prepared any of us I don't think for what these people had experienced. As they came through the doors they were greeted immediately by members of the Salvation army and we had to assess their needs..Did they have somewhere to go? Did they need to get to London? did they need accomadation? Did they need food and drink? etc I think about 100 of the people were holiday makers and were able to make their own way home, about another 200 possible needed to get to London or had relatives to go and live with and the rest well they had fled the Lebanon with nothing....their homes had been bombed and they had literally just packed what they could fit into holdalls. I was surprised that these people were actually lebanese citizens but with British passports..for some reason I had expected them all to be British who had chosen to live out there..it was a very humbling night and I struggled as I expect most of us did not to show I was upset. I am not interested in taking sides with any country as I don't know enough about what has gone on to have a proper opinion all I know is that these people had been through hell through no fault of their own...I just hope that the families that settle in this country get treated with friendliness and respect not ignorance and hostility.
thats all for now cos I have to get up for work sadly at half four grrr grrr grrr
Monday, July 17, 2006
Attack of the blackberries!!!!!
My garden has been taken over by blackberries, its unbelievable how they have grown. I left my living room window open over the weekend and had the shock of my life when I went to close it last night...a bush had snaked its way up the wall and had started growing through the window and into my house..5 big juicy blackberries had ripened right on my window ledge, the shock of that was enough to decide that I had to get help and so tonight I have a gardener coming round to assess the jungle....I'm sure I'll probably have a family of feral cats in there somewhere...either that or a colony of leprechauns.
Work today has been good.........ish thats all I will say :o)
Church on the other hand was excellent yesterday. Still lots of people away on holiday or poorly tho. Lots of prayer, praise and worship and all for Jesus. The theme for the meeting was Gods superman...I went out with the kids for Sunday school so missed the message and forgot to ask anyone what it was about. We are all counting the days till Hollybush which is now just a week and half away yippeeee...there are 28 of us going from our church this year..5 kids..6 youth and 17 adults pretty amazing when you think that just 3 years ago there were only 5 of us going. It is going to be so ace yahooooo just the fellowship with all my lovely friends will be excellent and then on top of that is church every day twice a day for 8 days..what more could anyone ask for??????
gotta go and eat something that is low in fat and calories. hmm what should I have? oh I know how about some lovely juicy cardboard? yep thats me tea sorted haha
Work today has been good.........ish thats all I will say :o)
Church on the other hand was excellent yesterday. Still lots of people away on holiday or poorly tho. Lots of prayer, praise and worship and all for Jesus. The theme for the meeting was Gods superman...I went out with the kids for Sunday school so missed the message and forgot to ask anyone what it was about. We are all counting the days till Hollybush which is now just a week and half away yippeeee...there are 28 of us going from our church this year..5 kids..6 youth and 17 adults pretty amazing when you think that just 3 years ago there were only 5 of us going. It is going to be so ace yahooooo just the fellowship with all my lovely friends will be excellent and then on top of that is church every day twice a day for 8 days..what more could anyone ask for??????
gotta go and eat something that is low in fat and calories. hmm what should I have? oh I know how about some lovely juicy cardboard? yep thats me tea sorted haha
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Sniff sniff
Couldn't sleep last night due to blocked up nose so got up and blogged on here..did a dead long post but just as I was about to publish it I lost my connection I was flippin riled grrrr grrrr and grrrrr...I was actually ranting about minor stuff so its probably just as well it didn't publish :o)
Life is good, work is good, church is good and God is good..not in that order cos obviously God should be first and He is !! At the fat club this week I lost 2 and half pounds (9 1bs in total) pretty chuffed with that because during the week I went for a curry with friends from work AND.. had 3 bars of chocolate tut tut bad girl...Christine gave me some uniform blouses but unfortunately I still have indecent bulges so need to get working harder at shifting the blubber so definitely no more chocolate.
Our Bible study was back on at church on Wednesday, it was about 'How to lead someone to Christ' really challenging stuff..It would be so good to be a part of someones salvation and I don't mean that in any weird way but how good to know that you had just helped someone to live for ever!!!!!! I am ready to be used by God in this way I know I am..but the question is am I brave enough? and am I a good enough witness?? my honest answer to this is no, but I think that God will use me anyway because whenever I speak to people at work, telling them about Jesus is the first thing on my mind, I don't often say anything as most of the time its too busy but I think God is just nudging me and showing me the ones He wants me to share with at some point because those thoughts never go away. It almost feels like I have an ulterior motive for getting to know our customers hehe but it isn't like that really.
Life is good, work is good, church is good and God is good..not in that order cos obviously God should be first and He is !! At the fat club this week I lost 2 and half pounds (9 1bs in total) pretty chuffed with that because during the week I went for a curry with friends from work AND.. had 3 bars of chocolate tut tut bad girl...Christine gave me some uniform blouses but unfortunately I still have indecent bulges so need to get working harder at shifting the blubber so definitely no more chocolate.
Our Bible study was back on at church on Wednesday, it was about 'How to lead someone to Christ' really challenging stuff..It would be so good to be a part of someones salvation and I don't mean that in any weird way but how good to know that you had just helped someone to live for ever!!!!!! I am ready to be used by God in this way I know I am..but the question is am I brave enough? and am I a good enough witness?? my honest answer to this is no, but I think that God will use me anyway because whenever I speak to people at work, telling them about Jesus is the first thing on my mind, I don't often say anything as most of the time its too busy but I think God is just nudging me and showing me the ones He wants me to share with at some point because those thoughts never go away. It almost feels like I have an ulterior motive for getting to know our customers hehe but it isn't like that really.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Work..Church.. etc
A busy week again...quite stressed on Thursday and Friday due to having to work with muppets...Hypocondria has struck again this week at work but happily it backfired on a certain individual as I covered all their shifts, they tried to come back to work after the '1 day flu' but unfortunately for them I sent them packing..such is the joy of being a manager.
The diet is going well and I lost 2 and half pounds at fat club this week...buzzin as I didn't think had lost anything due to the accident with the deliciously fatty minted lamp chops..baaaaaaaaaa
It will be 4th week of not eating any McDonald's which when you consider I have worked there for 18 and half years is hard going and my body is going cold turkey. Before it was like a buffet, I would pop out of the office and just take what I fancied, a bit of this a bit of that its no flippin wonder I ended up like the back end of a bus hehehe. I have a few reasons why I want to be slim;
1. I have a half sister that I have never met, we managed to find each other through Genes
reunited in January. Had a couple of emails over the last week asking to arrange a meeting
with me and my other sister... scary stuff eh. I really would like to be a bit slimmer so at
least I can wear some nice clothes..first impressions and all that malarkey.
2. I want to wear my Salvation Army uniform....I'm not interested in being a rebel anymore
and trying to think of reasons why I think its unnecessary to wear it. I just need to be
obedient to what God is asking of me and if that means having to lose weight and sacrifice
my lovely chocolate and crisps and all that bad stuff then so be it...I will do it!!!!!
Ian and Christine were back this morning yay.... everything kind of feels safe when they are back and at the helm. Church was really lovely as it always is. Ian spoke about The Potters House from Jeremiah..really challenging stuff to think about, for me anyway. Do I allow God to mould me into what He wants me to be? sometimes I do but a lot of the time I end up messing up cos I haven't listened to God and gone my own way. I need to recommit myself to God daily which is actually something I do as soon as I get up, but unfortunately I let the stresses of work bog me down and then I feel I let God down and I find myself struggling with guilt most of the day then...so the answer is to not just recommit myself daily but maybe minute by minute and try hard to stay out of trouble...I already know all this but maybe if I type it out then I can remind myself more.
Its getting late and I have to be up at half 4 so night night
Linz
The diet is going well and I lost 2 and half pounds at fat club this week...buzzin as I didn't think had lost anything due to the accident with the deliciously fatty minted lamp chops..baaaaaaaaaa
It will be 4th week of not eating any McDonald's which when you consider I have worked there for 18 and half years is hard going and my body is going cold turkey. Before it was like a buffet, I would pop out of the office and just take what I fancied, a bit of this a bit of that its no flippin wonder I ended up like the back end of a bus hehehe. I have a few reasons why I want to be slim;
1. I have a half sister that I have never met, we managed to find each other through Genes
reunited in January. Had a couple of emails over the last week asking to arrange a meeting
with me and my other sister... scary stuff eh. I really would like to be a bit slimmer so at
least I can wear some nice clothes..first impressions and all that malarkey.
2. I want to wear my Salvation Army uniform....I'm not interested in being a rebel anymore
and trying to think of reasons why I think its unnecessary to wear it. I just need to be
obedient to what God is asking of me and if that means having to lose weight and sacrifice
my lovely chocolate and crisps and all that bad stuff then so be it...I will do it!!!!!
Ian and Christine were back this morning yay.... everything kind of feels safe when they are back and at the helm. Church was really lovely as it always is. Ian spoke about The Potters House from Jeremiah..really challenging stuff to think about, for me anyway. Do I allow God to mould me into what He wants me to be? sometimes I do but a lot of the time I end up messing up cos I haven't listened to God and gone my own way. I need to recommit myself to God daily which is actually something I do as soon as I get up, but unfortunately I let the stresses of work bog me down and then I feel I let God down and I find myself struggling with guilt most of the day then...so the answer is to not just recommit myself daily but maybe minute by minute and try hard to stay out of trouble...I already know all this but maybe if I type it out then I can remind myself more.
Its getting late and I have to be up at half 4 so night night
Linz
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