Saipan Salvation Army Meeting October 8, 2006

We have two Youth Fellowships each week. They begin on Friday night and run pretty much through Sunday evening. If there's a long weekend, they run through Monday nights. Some kids come for a few hours, some for the long haul. We all have a great time. We study, play and do various activities. They like to cook a lot and this weekend, they wanted to make spaghetti with alfredo sauce and caramel popcorn. After making the alfredo sauce, the kids decided that spaghetti is boring so they decided to have macaroni alfredo instead. Devan came and although he didn't want to get involved in the cooking activities, he was an avid participant in a lot of other stuff.

At first, he didn't want to get out of the van. He wanted to spend the night in it. He dragged out the infamous tent and when dinner time came, he didn't want to come out. Annie fed him through the side window. The kids later began calling the tent the "technology tent" because there was a portable fan inside.

He wanted to play MarioKart but it was too complicated for his age. The other kids gave him an unconnected controller and he was convinced he was playing. He thought he won every race and would leap up and do a victory dance. "Suckers! You lose-you lose! I win!"

He played Uno, too. He played with Annie but we forgot that he's learning his colors. He called out the color of each card dealt, which for all you non-Uno players means that we knew what their cards were. He also had an interesting way of holding his cards. Despite all this, they won quite a few games.

This fellow doesn't mess around when he gets sleepy. He zonks out quickly, as if there's a sleep switch somewhere.

October 1, 2006 Saipan Salvation Army Meeting

Today we continued our study of the the life of Joseph, covering chapters 39-40.

We are careful to point out that this is not a story about a coat of many colors but about God and His sovereignty. If you have been studying along with us, you will probably remember that God had revealed to Abraham many years earlier, that the children of Israel would at some point go into Egypt and be oppressed there for more than 400 years.

The account of Joseph is primarily about God making provision for the children of Israel by sending them into Egypt to escape a terrible famine. As we study it, we can see God orchestrating events as He pleases. Although we are not told much about what Joseph’s thoughts were, we can easily imagine how crushed he was by the betrayal of his brothers and at having been imprisoned again because of false accusations.

However; God is sovereign and was in control of Joseph’s life every step of the way. There is much to learn from this account but the purpose of this blog is not for me to preach a lot, so I will now step down off the soap box, lol.

Rosie celebrated a Birthday this week. We had a hoe-down for her at Neng's. There were a lot of folks there but our little camera has a small lens, so I could only capture of few of them singing "Happy Birthday". HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSIE!!!

After Sunday School, Dustin and William lined up the chairs and made a train. They sang "choo choo" a lot.

After the train thang, Dustin played his favorite Superhero for a while. Up, up in the sky...it's a bird...it's a plane....