This morning we enjoyed a wonderful worship service led by Pastor Chang. Today's message, "The Price is Right", centered around our indebtedness to Christ for his ultimate sacrifice and our need to be shining beacons to those around us. In the coming week, we will certainly strive to be shining beacons for those around us.
After worship, we enjoyoed a great lunch in the church's fellowship hall with our team and the congregation.
We also started the project to replace the skirting around the church and were able to repair some damaged siding. We've made some great progress in only one day. However, some of the team may be a little wore out. Let's pray for some rejuvination by morning!
Some members of the team traveled down to culture camp to help raise a tent to protect campers from inclement weather in the coming week. Culture camp is held in Kake annually. The camp is for the children of the region to educate them about the local Tlingit culture. The younger kids attend camp for a few hours every day for arts, crafts, games, and other fun activities while the teenagers camp out all week and learn things like the native language, music, and dance. They will also learn about cleaning wild game (bear, moose, halibut, salmon, seal, etc.), smoking meat, and preparing food. Culture camp officially starts tomorrow and we will be on hand to help out with a number of activities.
Our constuction projects will continue tomorrow as well as the other planned activities. Kid's "fun zone" in the morning, Women's bible study in the evening, and sports camp in the evening will keep us very busy.
Probably the most notable event of the day......Vicar Gabe is terrified of bears (even baby ones)! I would anticipate his next sermon to incporprate some aspect of almost dying and the thought of never seeing his mother again. He will have to share the details of this on his own.
One of the local dogs which is part wolf. Pretty interesting looking.
Pastor Chang's daughters and a neighbor boy playing soccer on the church deck.
Zach "horsing around" with one of the kids.
This is the view from the deck outside the church. What a view!
This morning's "demo" of the church skirting.
Melissa and Kaitlin playing with Pastor Chang's daughters.
Stan, our veteran painter.
Yesterday, we provided four new swings. The old swings had rotted away. From this photo, you can see the new swings are getting a good workout.
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