More Monkey Business!

Our team went to Reading on Thursday to flood the walking street with the Evolution comic we gave out in Central London. It was lots of fun, and later on in the afternoon we headed to a hotel room loaned to us by a friend along with some newcomers for a theoretical debate regarding Evolution! (grin).

Anyway, I won't bore you too much with the dialogue, but here's some eye candy for you all! :D

(Faye and Shaun with a cheery-looking Cro-Magnon woman...aka Heather!)

(Tina at it again with her free hugs...well the Monkey appreciated it :D)

(Shaun in action)

(A candid shot of some recipients reading the comic)

(And another...)

(Tina and some new friends caught by surprise...we hope :P)

(Someone else caught by surprise as well!)

(Simon was King of the Monkey Mask!)

(That's it for now, people! See ya round...)

(...your Four Horsemen Team)

Be So Happy!

Yes, it's another one of those 'Heather found something really noteworthy and decided to stick it up here' posts. It's another David Berg article and YES I LOVE IT *squee* :D.

BE SO HAPPY
- By D.B.Berg



WE ALL NEED A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOUR! "A merry heart does good like medicine!" God created us with a sense of humour and the ability to laugh at things that are funny. So I'm sure He Himself has a sense of humour, especially when I look at some of the things and people He has created and the funny situations He lets them get into. Someone has said that a sense of humour is the ability to see the funny side of a serious situation and to laugh at things when they're not the way they ought to be.



THERE IS SUCH A THING AS BEING TOO SERIOUS AND TOO SOBER about some things and taking some things too seriously, especially yourself! The ability to laugh at yourself and your own silly mistakes is a great asset and helps keep you humble. But he who can't laugh at his own mistakes or take the mistakes of others with sense of humour either has too much pride or too severe a sense of life.



GOD INTENDED FOR US TO enjoy living and He has given us the ability, the senses and the environment to enjoy it, including Himself, and our main purpose in life, as Martin Luther said, is "to love God and enjoy Him forever!"


WE ALL NEED A GOOD LAUGH! Have a sense of humour! Keep humble with good humour! Laugh at yourself! Just don't let's overdo it, as there's a time for everything, as you pointed out. There's a time to laugh, and a time to weep--a time for everything.



BUT LET'S ALWAYS BE ABLE to smile through our tears--a ray of sunshine is even more beautiful in the midst of rain. Let's have a little more sunshine and laughter and not so much gloom and doom! Instead of giving them so much Hell, let's give them a little more Heaven! "Laugh and the world will laugh with you!--Cry, and you'll cry alone!"


THE WORLD KNOWS ENOUGH HELL! Let's show them a little more Heaven--"Love and laughter and peace ever after", and that today you can be free!

Valentine's II

Oh I almost forgot! Guess what else we did for Valentine's?
That's right...more singing!


(Here's our singing team's promo poster for one of our shows! I know, SO MUCH PINK! It's wonderful!)

A few of us girls got together a repertoire of romantic songs from all the different eras of music.
We performed for a few Care Homes as well as the pubs and restaurants we sung for at Christmas.

They loved it! People were very touched by the music and it was great fun for all of us girls to get out and do something different (well, when you're part of a theater team, 'different' is relative, I guess :P).
Hope you enjoy the pictures!


(Rocking out to Rockin' Robin)


(Shaking it out for 'La Bamba')


(Tina and Liz with some Care Home residents who enjoyed our show!)


(Faye and me smiling away)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here's wishing you a very happy Valentine's Day! Yes, it's that day - when lovers the world over express their affection in various ways...

Some conventional...




And some unique...



And of course, there's always the odd pocket of single people who watch the happy couples around them and end up feeling something more like this...



Whichever category you fit into this year's Valentine's Day, I've got a news flash for you:...

You can show love and express appreciation to everybody special in your life on Valentine's Day - whether they're 'that special someone' or not.




Love comes in so many shapes and sizes, and sometimes we can get so busy trying to find romance that we don't notice the people in our lives who mean something to us in different ways. SO MAKE THIS A SPECIAL DAY FOR SOMEONE ELSE, WHOEVER THEY MAY BE, AND SEE IF HAPPINESS DOESN'T FIND YOU!

In closing, here's a few quotes for the day!

The Love Catalyst

Love is not blind; it has an extra spiritual eye that sees the good and possibilities that others cannot see.—David Brandt Berg

Treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a great beautifier.—Louisa May Alcott

Monkey Business...

(Breaking for Lunch: Tina, Faye, Cate, Heather, Sam, Lani, and Josh!)

On the 12th of Feb, 2009, our team hit the streets of central London to pay our own form of tribute to the Big Idea Exhibition in the National History Museum. We met up with some other volunteers at 12 in Trafalgar Square and, armed with about ten bags stuffed full of the brilliant comic booklet Evolve Now (will try and get this posted up soon...it's epic!).


(Sam and Josh explaining the tract to some new friends...)

Since the theme of the day was Evolution, we all came painted up as various animals (or with faces depicting our own versions of the stages of evolution, or in monkey suits - it was all good).


(Me and Dee Jay smiling at the sun...:D)

It was great fun, and after a few hours of distributing booklets and having very interesting discussions with random passers-by, our team moved on down to bombard the Natural History Museum itself! Gasp - I know; such daring!


(Leilani charmed many with her unique bird facepaint...)

Okay so most of us were outside it, waiting for the visitors attending the exhibition to come out so we could attack (uh...metaphorically :P).
The sun was out and the smiles were in great supply. All in all, it was a smashing day! We gave out around 2,560 booklets, prayed with twelve people to give Jesus a chance in their lives (always a good idea), and even got to catch some snow on our way home!

I don't have a whole lot of pictures together right now, but I'll post the ones I do have here and hopefully get the rest to you all later on! Take care!


(Josh, Sam and a girl with really groovy hair!)



(And there's more where she came from, baby! :D)


(Tina's evolving tiger had a very eventful afternoon...)


(A performing magician who was sharing limelight with us in Trafalgar Square!)


(There he is in his superhero costume, appeasing the masses...)


And another one of Josh...


Tina giving hugs...she's good at that.


This little boy was part of a busking act with his parents...SO CUTE!

The Everything Skit

We're still waiting to get around to filming our version of this play (and trust me, it's on the to-do list). But until then, for those of you who haven't seen the original yet, here it is. Enjoy and remember that Jesus is always waiting to come to our defense!

The Everything Skit...

Let it snow...

Yes, one again it's the great frrreeze... (shivers). UK's experiencing a sudden cold front and today the world is silent. Trains and buses aren't running, streets are empty...the silence is golden.
Well...I give it five minutes before the snowballs start flying around *grin*



What's special about snow is that it's kind of like a big white blanket covering the world. Everything that was dirty or ugly is transformed into something white and glistening and beautiful.



They say that's what God's love is like in our lives - the clean white blanket that just covers everything that's bad and ugly and horrible.

All the things we hate about ourselves or our situations, that we wish other people didn't have to see - God's love just falls down like soft, beautiful snowflakes and blankets it all away, makes everything look clean again. Kinda cool, isn't it?



Plus, snow is just WAY too fun to play in ;).