Easter



Urban Sanctuary - Easter 2007

Cam is right - we had a 97 Beetle, not a 87 one.

This week-end has been pretty great. Good Friday, we went to Grandivew Calvary's Good Friday service at night. It was a very nice, contemplative service and Adam was sooo good - stayed quiet through the whole thing. We took Kaelinn - a friend who lives in our building and is also part of our church.

Yesterday we went to an Easter party at a local community center - Adam got to do an Easter Egg Hunt, and play games. It was fun.

Brent and Jason stayed over last night. We had planned to go to a sunrise service - since both of them come in form New West. we decided it woudl be easiest if they just came with us, so they slept over.

The sunrise service was a soaker, but it was nice.

Then everyone came over for brunch after - that was a really good time. Great food, and just an overwhelming sense of a warm community together.

Jason took some amazing pics - I have posted just a couple above.

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Joel M-E said…
you missed your old corolla station wagon(maybe from the 70s) .

I recall a certain incident in grade 11 where we went to earls at lunch, the car was packed (I was with 1 or two other people in the hatchback.... and you backed into a Benz .. alarm went off,and you panic'd and took off

(note - speed was slow, so there wouldn't have been any damage to the fine german auto)
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