Website

Other than learning Greek and meeting truckloads of new people, my other big job since I've been here has ben getting our new website ready for launch. Good news is that we launched it last tuesday (July 4th), and the Americans had a public holiday to celebrate it! The struggles they had been having with the website were all about showing that we are one church with 5 congregations. Have a look at it. www.chartwellchurch.org. The funniest part is that the new site is live all over the world, but we still cannot get it in our offices!

Mongolians

A few weeks back, Samaitans Purse came to us (Chartwell Baptist) and asked us if we would host a mongolian family. The story is that Samaritans Purse have this deal with a Toronto Hospital where they bring over kids from Mongolia who are going to die if they don't get heart surgery. The hospital provides the surgery for free, and Samaritans Purse finds a church to look after the family for 6 weeks. So we have this kid named Uilsee and his Mum and an interpreter with us at the moment. It is incredible! Check out the website to see more on them.

Uilsee

Uilsee, his mum, the interpreter, the host mum, and the coordinator

The Dempsters

We have now moved out of Ally's parents house, and we are house sitting for Dean and Barb Dempster, who are famous for being the parents of Scott Dempster. They own a cottage up near Muskoka (The area, not the camp) and they have moved up there for the summer. They left at the end of June, and they are not back until the beginning of September, so we have their house all to ourselves! The most beautiful part of being there is that Scott's old room is in the basement, and he has a Taihoa North Rd road sign down there! I might even take a photo of it and post it someday.

Fathers Day

June 18 was Fathers Day in Canada, so we had lunch with Mum and Dad, Denis and Joy Wallace and the O'Connells at the O'Connells house. We did the photos thing and gave out the fathers day presents (to all three dads), then Denis, Dad, Jono and I went to watch the high school senior rugby team play a touring Scottish team. This was also the day before Mum and Dad flew back to New Zealand, so it was good to spend some time with them before they left. Mum, Dad, Denis and Joy had just got back from Cleveland the day before.

And this was also Joy's birthday, but we didn't know that so we didn't get her a present, or a cake!

The Family sitting on the little hill in the backyard. These hills are also where I first saw Greg ride a sled down a hill.

Dad, Denis and Jono at lunch.

Two Mums and a Mom.