Tuesday, October 4, 2011

A Test

This past Sunday we had a test in church. After Damian completes his sermons, on whatever topic he has been preaching on, the church gets tested to see how much we all remember from what was taught. ( a teaching tool for the deaf to makes sure they understand)
Damian just finished up his series on "Magnifying God" and so yesterday this test was given:

Short Answer Questions:
1) What has been the topic we have been studying since June?
2)What were two examples used to demonstrate this?
3) What does magnify mean?
4)Who watches us as we magnify God?
5) How do you magnify God?
6) Who is a person that has an evil spirit and can tell the future?
(from the story in Acts where a slave girl was used by her master because she had an evil spirit but was then set free when she noticed Paul and Silas's good testimony and they shared the truth with her)
7) Who said "He must increase and we must decrease?"
8) How can we minister to others?
9) What does the word minister mean?
10) What was the theme verse used through this study?
11) People who live in the light do what?
12) People who live in darkness do what?
13) Where is the verse found about confessing your sins one to another?
14) Who do we need to shine our light for?

True 0r False:
15) We as Christians live among the world
16) Jesus Himself was the light of the world
17) Glorify and Magnify can mean the same thing
18) The guard at the prison was saved because he noticed Paul and Silas' good testimony
19) When Paul and Silas were in prison they complained to God and said "Why Me?"

Vocab/Spelling:
( for this part Damian would sign a word and then we had to spell it... can't really do that on a blog:)

21) increase
22) telescope
23) magnify
24) Paul
25) ministry


Then there was the bonus of a diagram a circle with a line down the middle half was shaded half was left alone each side had 3 lines coming from their side of the circle and we had to write in what each represented;
Light, God, Christians vs. Darkness, Satan, the unsaved.

At first when we would do this I would get so nervous but now I love the challenge of it to see how much I have retained... or how much I space out while in church.


Saturday, October 1, 2011

Good Bye Friends

Yesterday was Tony & Cildas last day here with us at C.C.C.D:(
After around 20 years of working with the ministry they feel like God is telling
them its time to move on. They have been my guardian angles during my time
here, and I will miss them greatly. BUT I know that God's ways are far above
our own, and I am excited to see where God will lead them.

Thank You Jesus for the gift of these friends.

Getting My Hair Fixed

Britani and I were hanging out one night...
when Nickayla and Paris started fixing my hair for me....
More hands started helping pulling my hair in all different directions...
Paris showing off the twist she is adding.... AND
Ta Da! The finished product

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Beautiful Endings

Today was filled with a lot.
One thing there was a lot of was rain.
As the sun set I caught the lighting through my widows and went outside to watch.
As the sun set behind the hills it started to rain again and when I turned to go home
I noticed the beautiful full rainbow that started behind the school, stretched across
the entire campus and ended at the road.

Thank You God for Beautiful Endings!

Monday, September 26, 2011

A Day Away

For a few weeks now Tashi has been asking me to come down, but becuase of things going on it didn't work out. Saturday it finally worked out to run away for a day with Friends! I took Lauren and Ionda with me and we started out at the Kingston school so I could love on my kids there.
Daphawn, my resident Kingston photographer, took my camera and started capturing the time we spent there.
Daphawn and I +someones hand who wanted to let you all know that they love you:)
Once we left the school we headed to Rituals (Jamaica's Starbucks). Tashi and I are big fans of this place:) We all got our chillers and pastries then sat down to chat. This was Ionda's first time and he quickly became a HUGE fan. He went through two vanilla chillers before us girls finished one. And yesterday at church he was asking me when I was going back to Kingston because he wanted to go back for more coffee chillers:)
Tashi and I in our "nice" picture
I will not post the "typical Tashi" picture:)
After our coffee and pastries we went back to Blake and Tashi's house to play games. Blake had to drive for a funeral so was gone most of the day. He did make it back in the afternoon, and was able to fix some stuff on my computer for me (Thanks Blake). We chatted for a while then packed up the bus to go home.
Before we left we snapped a quick picture with those we love.

Praise Jesus for great friends that provide places for us to run away to and relax!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Proper Tea

*This post must be read using an English accent* :D
Meet Joanne.
She is from England and is hanging out with us here at C.C.C.D. for 4 weeks.
She is a sweet girl that loves to share stories. I have enjoyed getting to know her and could sit and listen to her talk for hours.
Friday night we all had supper together, and Joanne brought her tea
(a must) and after supper we learned how to make 'proper tea'.
The Twinings tea bags from England
My cup of proper tea made with sugar and tea.
Joanne made my cup while I was taking pictures.
Yum!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Random

Praise God for great finds. I took Lauren and Joanne into town the other day to do some shopping and I noticed these two books. The library is filled with books but very very very few having anything to do with Jamaica or the Deaf. So when I saw these I picked them up. Both books talk about islands in the Caribbean and has information about the islands
The kids found the new books right away and spent their library time going through the maps of the island point to where everyone in their family lives, places they have been, places they want to go, and arguing about who was right about names and locations of places:)
I have also started to introduce the classes to Farkel. Its an easy dice game that will help their math since you have to add to keep track of your score. Most of the kids come to the library and sit, or look at pictures. I am trying to get them to actually do something educational so we are trying games like Farkel and scrabble to get their brains working.

I had the kids in the library yesterday and Shanel was one of them. It also just happened to be her birthday. One of the boys called Shanel out of the library where she was hit with water and baby powder (a flour substitute) and the kids laughed and clapped that she was "gotten" for her birthday. Its a Jamaican thing to get made into a cake on your birthday. Usually water and flour are thrown on you to celebrate your day... sometimes an egg is tossed in there too.
After the girls covered Shanel there was powder every where. In the air, on the floor (I about wiped out 5 times trying to make my way out of the school), and all over Shanel.

Praise God for Days full of Randomness!