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IBC Ladies Conference 2010

This year's theme is A Royal Bloodline. Our speaker Kathy Merrell hails from Covington, Virginia, USA. Her husband Howard was here for another conference at our church.

This year's schedule was divided into 3 days. Each session is 1.5 hrs long. Kathy spoke on A Royal Heart, A Royal Demeanour and A Royal Compassion.

On A Royal Heart, she touched on Our walk with the King. The message was basic yet powerful. She emphasised on going back to the basics and review. Our discipline will facilitate our Christian walk. We are to 'eliminate and concentrate' on what is important. Knowing God and let Him be first in our life is the most important and basic thing but I have to admit that most of the time, there are lots of other things that I do before I spend my time with God. She then elaborated on what knowing God involves. We are to listen, receive and apply His words; learn His nature; Accept His invitation and do what He commands and finally recognise and rejoice in Him.

Day 2 was held at the Pakuranga Country club. Our room overlooks the green golf field. Very soothing for the eyes. We rceived a goody bag each. They come in handy, it has note book, the bodyshop products, packet of tissue, chocolates etc Lunch was lovely quiche and salad. I didn't touch the dessert. It was some sort of chocolate eclair.

Kathy talked about A Royal Deameanour that day. Basically, our demeanour is our testimony for Christ to others. So it is important for us to behave in a way that does not detract from the teaching of Christ. Each session past very quickly.

Our final session was on A Royal Compassion. As children of the King, Joint heirs with Christ, we ought to reach outside the kingdom. Kathy touched on developing compassion for others. There are many ways recorded in the scripture. One could be a straight forward person like apostle Peter who spoke boldly to others, or an intellectual like apostle Paul who is able to reason with his contemporaries, party thrower like apostle Matthew who invited Jesus to speak at a party, testimonial approach like Lee Strobel or we could do it through actions via our service.

The final session wrapped up with craft session. A lady came with her gadgets etc and showed us how to make card using interesting tools, and stamps. Below is her 'booth' that she set up. Many people went ga-ga over all the pretty things. She's also available to do 'stamp' party like how one does Tupperware party. She has colourful catalogues and she is very crafty.

Below, she's telling us how to make a card with various items.

Below is my creation of the card. We were given two coloured paper stock and 1 card stock.
Then we used the 'puncher' to make the bird, wing and leave/branch.

Below is the paper waiting to be glued.

After gluing with a glu stick, I chose some embellishments for the card.

Below is my finished product. Ain't it pretty?

The 2nd item we made was a goody bag. We were given a card stock and a plastic bag. Again, I used some stamps to make the card stock and used another punch to make the 'butterfly'. See below for the finished product.

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Taking a picture with the guest speaker :)

Goodies

Jake had to go on a business trip to Adelaide last week. He came back with stuffs for the boys and a fleece hoodie for yours truly.
Notice we are in the Hi-5 and Wiggles phase. N very efficiently divide the pile of books into his and A's.

Carnival fun

Waitangi day is like NZ 's national day. This year it fell on a weekend. Unlike other statutory holiday, it does not get replaced should it falls on a weekend day.
Anyways above were the celebration held in nearby park. It has foodstalls, and most importantly fun activities for kids.

I was stuck at home whilst Jake brought N and my dad to the above.

N couldn't have more fun jumping in those bouncy castle. If I were there, I would be horrified seeing him bouncing with kids twice his size (see one of the pic where he's only 1/2 the height of another boy) I much prefer the more 'gentler' activities like riding on that red horse/moose carousel and the kid's size ferris wheel.
According to jake, they had to restart the carousel good few times due to overaged/overweight kids riding on it.