Swaziland – Day 8-10
The internet here moves at a lightning fast 30 bytes a second, so I e-mailed this to Ron for him to post for me, we head back to South Africa tomorrow, so hopefully I’ll be…
South Africa – Day 6-7
The last two days we spent at Kruger park scoping out animals in their natural environment. We saw elephants that were going to attack us. A leopard. Giraffes. Monkeys and Baboons. Water Buffalo. Hippo. Tons…
South Africa – Day 5
You know when you are watching TV and you get this idea of what Africa is like. Houses made out of garbage, dirt roads, people walking/sitting around everywhere. Today was a day like that. It…
South Africa – Day 4
Today was a great day. Rachel and I spent the day with the children at K2, a preschool for orphaned children. We ate some pape (boiled corn meal) with a soup like dip for it….
South Africa – Day 2-3
We are finally here. While its 10am in Sarnia, its 4pm here and we are all exhausted. Charity and Shane lost their main big piece of luggage and found out that it is all the…
Pictures from South Africa and Swaziland
Here are a bunch of the pics that aren’t animals that I took through out the trip. The rest are in the slideshow at the bottom of the post. This boy here was my absolute…
South Africa – Day 1
Well, we have started our trip. Rachel and I are sitting in the Chicago airport waiting for Charity and Shane to arrive (which we gave them 40% chance of making it on time). It wasn’t…
Beach Shots
We did a baptism for Shaelyn Silvestri two Sunday’s ago at theStory, here are some pictures from the beach day. I was just feeling the black and white shots. Here are the ones that aren’t…
Consumerism: The Myth of Reliability
This one is close to my post called Consumerism: Something that Will Last. However, now I’m going to take a look into the idea of reliability. So we want something that will last long into…
Rock Paper Scissors on K106.3
This morning I got to go on K106.3, a Sarnia radio station, for an interview for the Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship tonight. For more info on the championship go here. I got to talk about…
God as Found in Lars and the Real Girl
The movie I chose today is called Lars and the Real Girl. How many got a chance to see the movie? Lars and the Real girl is a story about an extremely shy guy in…
God as Found in Adbusters
This summer we are doing a series on books, movies and music and talking about where God is found in them. I did Adbusters Magazine and Lars and the Real Girl (which will be posted…
Darryl and Laura’s Wedding
So this was a big weekend. Darryl, who has been dating Laura for the last 6 years, mostly on the phone finally got married. We were all excited to be there on Saturday and had…
Links for July 24, 2008
I am an intentional non-voter. I never bought into the “duty” lectures or many other reasons why its important that I vote. David Fitch wrote a great post on not voting. ———————– Next Reformation quotes…
Rock Paper Scissors in Sarnia’s Newspaper
Hand-to-hand combat hard to beat Posted By CATHY DOBSON, THE OBSERVER Thank-you for that picture selection. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS EVENT TO BE HELD IN SARNIA AUG. 6 Look out baseball fans, there’s a new sport…
Save or Shave
In two last ditch efforts to raise some funds before we head off to South Africa we are running the Rock Paper Scissors championship and also doing a voting war to shave Shane’s head or…
Consumerism: Something That Will Last
I’m going to start a series of posts on my observations of our consumer culture. I’m trying to get a handle on my own desires, fairly judge the norm around me and hopefully offer some…
Warped Tour in Detroit
Mike, Chris and I spent the day in Detroit last Friday at Warped Tour. Lots of good bands and some great times. Lots of other things going on also, so I’ll be posting about that…
Dangers and Safety in Sarnia’s Bayfest and the South End
Sometimes I am a little thrown off at what some people consider dangerous. It isn’t so much the dangerous act that I think is safe, but rather where people are coming from when they consider…
Rock Paper Scissors Tournament in Sarnia
As one last final fundraiser before we leave for South Africa, I thought I would run a tournament that is close to my heart. We are only selling 128 tickets, to buy your ticket online…