Thursday, June 28, 2007

Sabina and Friends at Home

Here is Sabina at our home with her friends...

Aleksej

Leo

Her brothers

Papa!!!

Harris Kids [At the mall/second home ]

Log on to the EN07 website to join our version of Funniest Home Videos. Win a Sony video cam if you dare!


Friday, June 22, 2007

Our New Home

... for the church, that is.  As our more recent visitors will attest to, we have outgrown The Heritage Club.  More than that, the nesting bug has finally bitten our pastors, and we all felt that it was about time to get a permanent address, sink our roots into the culture and get ourselves OUR VERY OWN CENTER in Penang!!!

Located right across the newest mall on the island, the Queensbay Mall, it is our hope that we can reach and serve the people of Penang more effectively.  We have already begun renovations, and we hope to begin holding services there on the second week of July.

Please read our missions director Michael "Jap" Paderes' most recent blog, New Center for EN Penang, to see the project details and designer's perspective of how it will look...





Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Requiem


My old Samsung phone finally croaked.  It was a faithful friend, accompanying me constantly the past three years.  It was actually a gift from Marife del Valle who felt led to give me her phone back in January 2005 when my Jonathan jumped in the pool with my Nokia.  From then, it journeyed to KL, Bangkok, Singapore...saw our "assignment" change from Peru to Penang, witnessed our move to a new home, made land trips to Langkawi, Singapore, KL, Ipoh, Cameron, Taiping.  It flew to Manila, NY, DC, Phoenix, San Diego, LA, Baguio...

Hehehe! I said all that just to plead with you to PLEASE text me your numbers.. I lost them all in my dead phone. 

TEXT ME @ +60 12 474 5124.  THANKS!!!


Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Digital Scrapbooking...Oooppps, got it working now



My heartfelt gratitude to Alice for this digital scrapbook page. 

I met this beautiful lady through our kids.  She and her husband, Claus-Deither, have an only child Hui Xian. Just like her parents, she is a computer whiz, whose pet online project grew to proportions they never expected.  It was through this that she met Lois, Adrian Campos' daughter online, and they became fast friends. Without ever meeting in person, they arrange to adopt Lois for almost two months early this year.  We met them, enjoyed that first meeting enormously, our kids gelled, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Alice markets her digital scrapbook designs online.  You can view her creative layouts on her MULTIPLY SITE, or purchase her designs online on SCRAPBOOK ELEMENTS.

Monday, June 18, 2007

My "3 Brothers Series" on Flickr


Yes, the tables have turned in my house.  Mommy is now a copycat, a wannabe, the fledgling.  I take my pointers from my sons, ooh-ing and aah-ing at their spur-of-the-moment creations.  If YouTube has video responses, this is my "album response" to Jonathan's portfolio of sorts  POW!












These are the "behind the scenes" takes of an afternoon's shoot at the beach.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

The Space Between Sunday and Monday

How we spent Father's Day...


Lunch at Chili's for the Big Daddy






















Mushroom-Swiss x Four!!!!














































Dinner for the Penang Medical College Students, hosted By Jonathan and Mee Yoke Lim at their brand-new home!!!













Sending off the Fantastic Four to Singapore

















Hello, Angels...

(The Replacement PMC Super-heroes)













Inane games to baffle the doctors: Bang-bang, Who died? Chicken-chicken!

















And finally, enjoying alone-time by blogging and dedicating this video to Mikey and all U2 lyric afficionados




Thursday, June 7, 2007

Youth Camp: LANGKAWI, MALAYSIA ...[updated]


My kids just got back yesterday from an unforgettable camp.  Well, for one thing, two of them came back with cool 'dos I would never have allowed otherwise.  But that's not all they came back with.  Their eyes were brimming with such joy and pride as they recounted how their friends have come to know the Lord -- worshipping with them as they never imagined they would.

My special thanks to Joseph B, Richard, Dan the rocking evangelist, Voica, Lana and Iris for coming all the way and organizing this event.  Of course, let's not forget the Pied Piper, Joshua Harris, whose brainchild this all was, and who spent countless sleepless nights, and a headful of hair to see it come to pass.





Monday, June 4, 2007

Prophesies_Penang 2.AVI




Prophesies for Richard, Lana and Voica

Prophesies_Penang 1.AVI




Prophesies given to Joseph Bonifacio and Richard Blaylock at our service, Sunday, 3 June 2007. This is the first half...

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Hosting Champions 1




Although living here in Penang has taken us away from friends and family, people we share so many common memories with, it has also afforded us one very special advantage... that of enticing Filipinos to come out from their islands and explore exotic places with us. The most recent friends to take the bait were Ritchie and Raya Llanto. We met them almost a decade ago when they were fresh out of college. Ritchie caught our attention immediately because of that aura of excellence he carried. 

Today, he pastors a thriving church in Zamboanga.  He also recently celebrated his third wedding anniversary with his beautiful wife, Raya, and came out of the blogsphere shadows with this gem of a blog...  "LOST AND FOUND" Convictions