Why I love Mondays...

Sunday was a long day for me, Sundays usually are. This past Sunday started with preparing a Salad for the Christchurch Gumball 500 which was held as a social, run by Warwick and Rebecca. Then it was to Church by 9am. Preparing a Benediction for the morning service, I decided to adopt on which I had read previously, To send people out into the week:

"To all of God's Children
Continue your journey walking in love,
Care for one another
Serve one another
Care for God's earth
Seek grace and make peace.

Let us bless and keep one another
let kindness rule in our hearts
and compassion in our lives
As God goes before us all
into the week ahead
Amen"

With Church finished, it was onto the Rally with some late minute recruiting for "Team Mount Panorama" and also making sure all the food was in the fridge and ready to be cooked.

Driving for 2 1/4 hours was not the best way to unwind on a Sunday Avo, going through my mind at the time were details of the evening service, "What have I forgotten...?" would have been the recurring thought.

With a resounding win in the bag for "Team Mount Panorama", I set to work on the BBQ. Wonderful balls of fire were shooting out the back of the BBQ, threatening to set the nearby trees alight!!

With the BBQ done and the fires in the stomachs stoked, it was straight onto setting up for Digestion.

Steve and Aaron needed 6 different visual effects T'd up for the service; Live video feed, Opawa portraits on a PPT, Fingerprints on another PPT with scripture over top, Pink's "Don't let me get me." as a backing track for different Opawa portraits, a PPT of Da Vinci's "Human" drawing and a Slide projector of an old man's face on another wall.

Steve and Aa spoke on our uniqueness and how we all are part of God's masterful creation. We all put our unique mark on a piece of Paper and recognized God's love for being uniquely created.

Also getting the Auditorium set up for the service, (Thanks Steve and Aa for your help) and finally finishing off the service with notices and offering.

I coasted to BK for about half an hour, (probably less time than Jamiee had her cell phone glued to her ear...) I finally arrived home at 9pm

Monday I woke up at about 11am.

I love Mondays