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November and December are always busy months for us, with lots of things going on. There are two birthdays, our wedding anniversary and of course Christmas, to mention a few. NOVEMBER Christine's Birthday We both took the day off for Christine's birthday, so that we could
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Well time has flown, and I've not gotten around to writing even a monthly blog post! Here is a quick recap of September and October of this year! SEPTEMBER Fathers Day 1st Sept was Fathers Day, so Nathan and Christine took me out for dinner. We went to
Well its been a while since I've done an update - My goal was still do do one a month - lets see if we can get back to that! I can't believe that I have not done any updates in 3 months! To be honest
On Thursday 30th May I had the opportunity to talk about my recent Philippines trip - the goal was to talk about myself a bit, like how it pushed me out of my comfort zone or how it’s changed me etc. The previous talks i've done were
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Well, its the last day of May already!! I feel like the last few weeks have gone by really fast. Work has been extremely busy as we are working to onboard some new publications that we have recently purchased. This is a fairly laborious repetitive process and takes a long
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On Thursday 16h May I got to go to the "For King and Country" concert in Auckland at the eventfinda stadium here in the North Shore. For King & Country is a duo who emigrated to the United States as children, and grew up in the USA. They
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The 2nd week of May started off as any normal working week would. I worked from the offica ll week - it was a fairly busy week (as most weeks are). Nathan is doing business studies at school and they need some capital to start their businesses, so we have
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On Sunday 5th May Grant, myself, Emma, Hannah, Meg and Jan got to share some of what we had seen, thought and learnt. It was suggested that we could use 2-3 photos and speak to those. The video below is the recorded version of the service. We went in earlier
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At work we have a daily standup, and I hosted it on Friday 3rd May. As part of this I had 3-4 mins to chat about my trip... I think I took a bit longer than anticipated 😂 Since sharing my story I have been able to chat to several people
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The past few weeks has been a bit of a blur - "normal life" in Auckland for me is fairly fast paced, and (perhaps cos I got to escape my normal for 3 weeks) seems to be flying past quicker than ever. Its been two weeks since I
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Monday 15th April 2024 After being home for a day and a half, Christine, Nathan Holly and I are driving down to Masterton in the Wairarapa today. The drive is approx 8 hours, but we stop off a few times, so it generally takes us around 10 hours. If you
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Today we had to head to the airport around 12.30. After breakfast we had a swim in the pools, then we headed back to our rooms for final re-packing of our things back into our suitcases. We also went for a final walk around nearby, and had the opportunity
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Today we had an early start... we decided that we would get up early and watch the sun rise, so we were out by the beach at around 5am. After watching the sunrise, we did our devotions and sang some worship songs at the beach. While we were there a
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Today we went to the church that Cassandra goes to. We were greeted by a very excited bunch of children who were singing and dancing. Some of the kids came to us and gave us a necklace. Cassandra was the one who gave my necklace, and she also gave me
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Today was an exciting day - I finally get to meet Cassandra our sponsored child. We were taking all the kids that the group sponsored for a fun day out at Cebu Ocean Park which is a giant aquarium which also has some other animals such as snakes, and birds.
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Today we went to another Church that partners with Compassion, to see the work that Tearfund do via Compassion at this church. This church was not located on the side of the road like many others were, instead we got off the bus and walked through the slums to get
