As in years past, we went out to Kolinvaai to join our friends there for a Christmas morning church service. I was asked to preach and so I read the Christmas story from Luke and then focused on Simeon and Anna’s encounters with the Christ child. There was lots of singing and dancing after the […]
BMC Christmas Eve Caroling
As in years past, the expat doctors at BMC visited patients on the wards on Christmas Eve and passed out oranges. This year it was just the Cahills and us and we were joined by our German friend Mattis. One thing we did differently this time was that William read the Christmas story in Mampruli […]
2016 Family Christmas
After caroling at the hospital we had our family time of worship and then opening the many gifts our friends and family had sent us. KJ’s favorites were a toy cell phone from her brother and a baby doll & teddy bear from grandparents. Trey was predictably pumped about LEGOs and books. Heidi got some new athletic […]
Christmas Tree Time Gets an Upgrade
This year the time-lapse tradition got a high tech upgrade and is now a 360 degree, 4K video. Have fun spinning around in circles to keep up with the action!
Christmas Day 2016
Much like last year’s Christmas Day, we spent the day at church and then visiting our friends and sharing food with them. This year Heidi had to bake a lot more banana bread loaves and cookies because we have a lot more friends than we did a year ago!
Christmas Eve Family Time
In anticipation of really busy Christmas Day, we once again had our “family time” on Christmas Eve. This year our family grew a lot! Not only was it KJ’s first Christmas, but our PeaceCorps friend Jesse joined us too! Last year, we didn’t have too many presents to exchange and our house was pretty bare […]
Christmas Tree Time Again!
It’s that time of year again! We put up a Christmas tree and I make a low quality, but mildly entertaining timelapse video of the tradition. Here’s the 2014 one: And here’s the 2012 one: And here’s the 2011 one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAnx-y343KA And here’s the 2010 one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdHT9W930ZM And here’s the 2009 one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRb-YzFkOhc And the 2008 one…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kw8kkoTpzg
Christmas Gifting
We adopt the local Christmas tradition of preparing food for friends and visiting with it on Christmas Day.
Christmas Service in Kolinvai
Our Christmas morning church service was a lively event. The village’s youth had returned home for break and presented several musical numbers for the church. It was neat to see how the energy level of the church skyrocketed with all their young folks in attendance. Pastor Sugri gave a message reflecting on the birth of […]