




Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
As
I begin this week’s post, my home is currently being invaded by the Senior
Youth Camp (SYC) Staff who are holding their monthly meeting in my living room
(aka “The Crosstalk Office”)
This
evening is the SYC Annual “Soiree” fundraiser so Victoria has asked if I could feed
dinner to the staff at the unlikely hour of 430pm!
As
I write, my 3 year old Godson, William, is also here at the kitchen table
playing with an iPad, which, unfortunately for me, has a variety of very loud
percussion instruments with which he is experimenting! The third member of our
kitchen trio is Natalie’s friend Andrew (see previous Post) who is here to
attend the Soiree but is not a member of the Staff, so is also relegated to the
kitchen!
Meanwhile
“dinner” is almost ready. We are having
White Chili (recipe below), Blue corn Chips, and Easter Cupcakes with raspberry
icing and jellybeans and I’ve made a punch bowl of lime-raspberry infusion for
everyone to drink.
This
past week we have continued to make steady progress on various aspects of Day
Camps.
Several more applications have arrived from
host churches. Our chart is now looking healthier; the only Team we are not
sure about is the one which, for the last number of years, we have set aside
for First Nations Communities in Northern Saskatchewan. I’m having a bit of
difficulty making direct contact with the Bishop in Prince Albert so we are
still not quite sure of the status of that Team. If Sask. falls through it will
be a scramble to find four more host locations in a given geographic area to fill
up the schedule. I keep telling myself that it is in the Lord’s hands and then taking
it back and worrying about it!
On Thursday Jessica and I completed about
three quarters of the Team Supply Inventory. It was good to discover that the supplies are in decent shape so we will
not need to do a huge amount of shopping this year.
The
Manual will be going to press this week so we shall soon be able to send the
PDF version to Churches and to have hard copies in hand for Team Members and
for the Supply Boxes.
This coming week it is also my intention to pull together all the
missing documents for the music binders and get
those copies made too.

Next
Saturday will be the Team Gathering, at which time I will have a chance to
round up some helpers for upcoming events such as the May Coffee House, a
“Craft” Day, at which we are going to be making samples of some of this year’s
crafts, and for the a group willing to learn the 2013 Liturgical Dance and come
together to record that DVD.
So
here is the White Chili Recipe:-

½
medium onion,chopped
½ cup green pepper,chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
¼ cup mid green chilies
2 cloves garlic, minced
In a large skillet, saute in 1 Tbsp of
olive oil. Set aside.
2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour
2 cups chicken broth
½ cup milk
In a soup pot ,melt butter , blend in flour
and cook briefly. Stir in broth and milk. Cook over medium-high heat,stirring
constantly, until thickened.
2 cups cooked navy beans
2 cups corn
1 cup chopped cooked chicken or turkey
¼ cup sour cream
½ tsp. each Thyme and Sage
1 tsp. ground cumin
Add to the pot along with sauteed vegetables
and heat through. Serve topped with chopped fresh cilantro and blue corn chips.
Serves 4.
It is now Sunday afternoon. The Huyers are back on the road to Ottawa, I
have done a load of laundry and straightened up the house, put William’s toys
back in the basement and taken Wil for a long walk. Mandu has emerged from
hiding, Wil has subsided and the house seems very quiet after the weekend
whirlwind!
This
morning we all went to church together, as the Huyers stayed overnight and I
babysat the boys last evening while they were at the Soiree.
At Church I enjoyed cuddling baby Alexander on my lap. We were all there
for the Worship songs and the Scripture Readings, one of which took the form
of YouTube video which was a modern exegesis of the Old Testament passage from Isaiah 53. After that I took Alexander in to the Nursery, so sadly, I did not hear Nick’s
Sermon.
It was very special to have all 3 of my Godsons playing together in one
room at the same time!
The Lord is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!
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