Busy week!

It's been a few days since my last post, but it's been a busy week! Monday I started recording Alto for our songs for the choir so that people can learn their parts! It was a challenge, since I had only really started listening to the music Sunday afternoon, simply because I could not get the files to download to my computer until Saturday night. So I did some fast listening, and then some fast learning! Doug is a whiz on the piano so he pounded out the parts as I sang along and that helped me out too.

Monday night I had my first meeting for the kids' ministry that I am helping with, called KidzArc. There were 5 other ladies there besides me and Judy, the missionary that is heading it up. Much of the conversation was in Dutch, so that was a good challenge for me! I am learning words here and there, and also many Dutch words are very similar-sounding to English and sometimes even French--- so sometimes I could get the context even if I don't know what they were saying! Judy spoke English most of the time, so even if I didn't know what the other ladies were saying, she'd respond in English and I'd be caught up to speed.

KidzArc is once per month, on the first Wednesday of the month. They do all kinds of things- puppets, crafts, skits, human vidoes, small groups, et cetera... The first one I am helping with is this coming Wednesday, October 1st. We are having a set-up meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 30th, and I am going to be helping with the human video! There is a children's minister/evangelist who is going to be here for a week and she will be teaching us the human video--- so please be praying for me that I will learn fast, and that KidzArc will reach many kids with the Love of Jesus!

Tuesday I continued on with my recording. I knew what to expect this time, so that helped. Wednesday was pretty much the same, except we took a break to have some Tea! So good for the throat! :) Plus, it is getting chilly here already!! But from what I understand, it doesn't get freeeeeeeeeeeeeezzz--zzzing cold like it does in the midwest of the States, so it should be tolerable :)

Tonight we had out second choir practice. We split the groups up by part, and I helped with the Altos, since that is what I had been working on all week, and it went very well. Then we brought everyone together and worked on the songs together. For the first real time, it worked out pretty good! We have a lot of work ahead of us, but what's new, right? :)

Alright, that is all from this part of my world. Hope you all are good! Keep those prayers goin', comments comin', and emails rollin' in!

~A