The Hallelujah Roadshow (Day 34)

"Knitwits!"

The Hallelujah Roadshow is alive and well. I cannot believe how fast this summer has gone by. There is one more week left of Service Corps and I feel as if we have accomplished a lot. The road show has been an awesome experience.

We just left Oregon, the land of "it's illegal to pump my own gas so someone does it for me." Check out this lovely price.

We started off today with a bit of coloring and then knitting with a group of kids that visit seniors at a senior home. They call themselves the Knitwits. There we learned the ancient arts of knitting and crochet.

Steven had a spot of trouble but Matthew was a cheater because he has had years of experience knitting at home. By himself. In his room.

We moved on to do Vacation Bible School in an empty house on the lot of the future Gresham Corps. The kids arrive at 6pm and we go to about 9pm.

Duck, duck, goose.

Shalini sets up the deflated ball for another rambunctious round of pilfer the pork (aka steal the bacon aka stealeth the soy bacon).

During coloring time I gave Larry boy a makeover for his costume to get it up to date. This is the bumblebee edition Larryboy. I like coloring.

Chris found these sunglasses in the corps and asked if he could posses them forever. The Major said, "Yea."

Surgery went smoothly. Matthew should be able to walk in a few days. Just kidding, Jimothy.


The Roadshow has one more week of music and laughter. Peace be with you.

Monkeys!!!

I can't believe we are over half way through. The summer is going by wayyy too fast!

We finished working at the Ranchinho. The kids and teachers threw us a party. It was sooo cute. We miss the kids there. They were so adorable. But we seem to find a new set of adorable kids everywhere we go to distract us.

Right now we are on our day off back in Sao Paulo, but we've been staying at a camp and working at a corps called Itaquaquecetuba (practice saying it out loud a few more times... I know you want to... or maybe you already have). During the day we've been painting at another playground at Itaquaquecetuba and cleaning up the corps daycare center which is currently being remodeled. It's been tiring, but fun. And at night, we've been hanging out with the monkeys at camp. And I'm not talking about the officers who are there at their officer's councils, although they can get pretty crazy. But there are real monkeys!!! There are also real snakes, but fortunately we haven't run into any of them yet.

We've also been to a variety of corps and taken part in many types of worship. Some that are very foreign and a little bit frightening at first, but in the end it is evident that we are all family and share in our love for Christ.

I know I said it before, but the people here are truly amazing. Everyone has been so nice to us. And everyone we meet is so unique and quirky in their own way. One man, who is the contractor for all our projects can hardly understand a word we say, yet is constantly laughing and teasing us. He visits us on our projects a couple times a week and is excited everytime he sees us. We now call him Uncle Eddy... he loves it. But he's also a bit mischievous. We just learned that he told our new hosts that we eat a lot. And when we asked him about it he said it was because he wanted us to get fat so that when we return to the states, people will know that Brazil took good care of us.

It's good to hear from everyone. Sorry we don't have any pictures up yet. I forgot to bring the connection for my camera.

And Elisa... I would respond to your comment, but I can't navigate around this site because it's all in Portuguese. And we don't have a number you would be able to reach us at out at camp. Maybe at our next location. Hope you're having a great summer. Love ya!

And to everyone else... Take care and God Bless! And have a great last three weeks!!!

Hallelujah Road Show - Loreen

Loreen is unhappy. She just deleted the blog she wrote! I'll try to rewrite...

We are entering our third week on the raod and have been having a blast. We have been to Sacramento, Redding, Camp Redwood Glenn, San Francisco (3 different corps... and an ARC), Gilroy, Monterey, Capitola and San Jose. We are now in Spokane after making the crazy 18 hour drive in our two awesome vans. A few thousand poor bugs have met their maker after meeting our vans... Here in Spokane we have done a two day mini VBS, fliered the neighborhood and are revving up for a carnival tomorrow morning. We have encountered so many awesome officers on the road who have blessed us and made sure we do not get scurvy... :) We've appreciated it all!!! We leave on Monday for the other side of the state. After that we go to Oregon for a few days and then down to San Diego for the last leg. Then we see you all at debriefing.

Our team has gelled as musicians and friends and we are having a blast serving the Lord together. Being on the road is tiring but we have a great time and have used the time well... For example, our entire team can now solve a rubicks cube. If you think I'm joking, we'll prove it at debriefing! :)

Blessings on your last weeks... and we'll try to be more faithful about updating...

three weeks?!

has it been three weeks already?!
EXCITING!!!!
seattle is sweeet.
it is soo beautiful right now.
i know all youve seen are photos of us just chilling.
but that is because we arent really allowed to take photos of the people we work with.


hmm, next week our team is going to have a teen outreach at the corps.
were doing some might funn stuff.
we're going to hanging out with the kids.
devotions, games, funneeesss!

yupp, nothing really to say just wanted to update for the ppl who read this =]

-the road show will be closer to us next week, very excited we might get to see them.
-called hong kong, they seem to be chill =]

here are some photos for ya =]


prettyness of the pretties.


pretty of the lonelies.


south valley mission team && service corps seattle team =] 2007


mattsta sleepin.


brent let me shave his hair!


tracy sufin with the pigs!


the guys from their room!


me on top of the troll!!!!


that is all gooood days!!