So it's funny how quickly life can change in such a short space of time. My time in New Zealand is almost over...
A fortnight ago I had my fortnightly check up with my orthopaedic surgeon who told me that my arm hadn't healed fully. The x-ray showed that its still broken and the only thing holding it together is the metal plates. Theres a gap between the two bones that in this time they had expected to heal together approx 2cm gap. So the the doctor has decided that I need to have another operation. So it has been booked for the 14th June in Hutt Hospital, New Zealand. In the operation they plan to do a bone graph and take some bone from my right hip, approx a thumbs length and place it into the gap in my left arm.
So this was news I wasn't expecting. I had to make some tough decisions as to how I wanted to end my year. I had many choices but along with my parents and others I came to a decision.
I finished work on Sunday at the church, I will spend the next fortnight travelling round the country returning home to hutt in time for my operation. Spend a few days in hospital and then three weeks in Napier with the McCrorys in Hastings. With the plan to head home to Inverness in the first week of July.
My year hasn't gone the way I expected but it still has been amazing and I've felt Gods guidance and protection through it all. I'm really going to miss alot of people here.
xx
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Sunday 13 May 2012
Crazy party....
Ok so I gave another teach today, I ran a little over time I went to about twenty minutes but five minutes over I guess is alright.
Today I was continuing my series on Daniel and today was the story of the writing on the wall. I made a video yesterday with the kids that I live with, which was fun. Conor filmed it, Annalese was promptor and Lauchlan and I starred, him as a partygoer and me as the newsreporter. It gave the background to the story about a party that a king threw that got crazy.
This morning we watched the video and then I recapped the story. The bottom line was that 'You CAN stand up for whats right, even if its not popular.' I connected it to the bottom line from last week that if you do this, people can see God through you.
The kids really seemed to listen and I enjoyed doing it. This week I was braver and didnt cover my arm up. Im not doing that anymore unless I'm going somewhere I'm not comforble, in which case I wear an armband; like in the photo above.
Next week is the last week in the Daniel series and it is the much beloved childrens Bible story, Daniel and the lions den. x
Sunday 6 May 2012
Teaching...
Sorry for the rareness of my blogging, I think of things all the time and 'oo I can write that in my blog and then I never do.' So now I am...
I'm now teaching and leading worship on Sunday mornings. I did the teaching a couple of weeks ago and the did it again today. I felt this morning went a lot better than last time.
I'd written and designed it myself, I felt a lot more confident, I knew it off by heart, I felt that what I was saying was what God wanted me to and it included Veggytales.
The passage I was teaching on was Daniel 3, the story of Shadrach, Mescach and Abednigo in the fiery furnace. It's such a great story of these 3 guys who had such faith in God they were willing to die for Him.
I showed some pics of some statues and linked it to how King N in the story went really crazy and built a massive gold statue of himself.
I found a great 6 minute clip of the veggytales adaptation of the story, which I decided to base my talk around.
Just as an add on I used to watch veggytales as a wee one and every time I think about I always think about my Dad singing, 'Oh where is my hairbrush...'
I watched a clip of the video and then explained what happened in the Bible and asked the kids what they think might happen and what they would do in that situation. It was interesting to see what the kids thought. There was some really good answers.
At the end I talked about how regardless of the situation if you stand up for what you believe is right then people can see God through you.
It was a fun talk to do and I think that the kids enjoyed it :P
I'm now teaching and leading worship on Sunday mornings. I did the teaching a couple of weeks ago and the did it again today. I felt this morning went a lot better than last time.
I'd written and designed it myself, I felt a lot more confident, I knew it off by heart, I felt that what I was saying was what God wanted me to and it included Veggytales.
The passage I was teaching on was Daniel 3, the story of Shadrach, Mescach and Abednigo in the fiery furnace. It's such a great story of these 3 guys who had such faith in God they were willing to die for Him.
I showed some pics of some statues and linked it to how King N in the story went really crazy and built a massive gold statue of himself.
I found a great 6 minute clip of the veggytales adaptation of the story, which I decided to base my talk around.
Just as an add on I used to watch veggytales as a wee one and every time I think about I always think about my Dad singing, 'Oh where is my hairbrush...'
I watched a clip of the video and then explained what happened in the Bible and asked the kids what they think might happen and what they would do in that situation. It was interesting to see what the kids thought. There was some really good answers.
At the end I talked about how regardless of the situation if you stand up for what you believe is right then people can see God through you.
It was a fun talk to do and I think that the kids enjoyed it :P
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