Around California

A sampling of our California travels this summer:

Griffith Observatory, 

Los Osos/Morro Bay, 

Manhattan Beach, 

Pasadena,

San Gabriel Mission

Find more photos from Cali here.

Hope Suspended

All those pretty painted baubles from the last post

came together to make an Advent mobile

to hang in the worship space

Z uses with his students.

The idea is that each orb represents the hopes

 of the student who made it.

When hung up above the font, 

their hopes are suspended during Advent, 

waiting and watching for Christmas.

Holy Week review

Z & I are still recovering from Holy Week, 

definitely the busiest time ever 

for a pastor (& family).

My favorite parts of the

week were the

Good Friday Bluegrass service,

 and the Saturday evening

Easter Vigil,

which included multiple baptisms

and a huge celebration.

The following morning we all 

gathered together again

for a beautiful Easter service

and children's Easter egg hunt.

When folks at church asked us what

we were doing for Easter (afternoon)

I replied, "Take a nap."

I think some of them thought I was joking, 

but that's exactly what we did.

Palms

Once a month

we help run a program

for kids living in the neighborhood

around our church.

This month our craft was making

palm crosses since

Palm Sunday is coming up.

I used palms from our yard &

taught all the kids how to fold them 

into these crosses.

They loved it!

I'll be away visiting my sister (yay!) for several days, 

but look for lots of new photos next week.

In the meantime, I've uploaded tons of old

photos onto Flickr.

Some of them have been posted on the blog

but some have just been hanging out on my memory cards.

Feel free to check them out!