July 12th, 2010
Our last meeting was just as interesting as usual. When we arrived at Scott & Tammie’s house, we were presented with eleven-year-old, Mikey’s, lego creation- quite impressive, he’d been working on it all week! Oh, and not to mention, as usual, we were also greeted by Molly, the golden retriever- the highlight for our toddler, Isaac.
As everyone arrived, we enjoyed visiting and snitching from the selection of foods brought together, including Tammie’s yummy homemade salsa! We caught up and joked around and eventually moved into worship lead by Joshua on guitar and David on his drum. A talented couple of young men with great hearts!
Announcements were announced with a wonderful intro from Josh on guitar.:-) Then shared were testimonies about people’s weeks and how God had presented Himself and blessed them. Can’t really give any details cause I had to go change a diaper and missed a lot of what was said. Our blog may always be a bit spotty for reasons such as these! This is real life.
We decided at our last meeting that we were going to get back into studying the book of John. We began in chapter one- a logical place to start. Scott presented us with a clip from the movie “The Book of John” that covered chapter one. It was quite interesting and helped give us a good picture of what really took place when John the Baptist was doing his thing.
We broke off into smaller groups to maximize our studying potential. I ended up with three other ladies. We went down into the basement and sat on the comfy couches while the little one played. We took the first chapter and answered the “five W’s” about it: What is the chapter about? Our answer- John prophesying the Messiah; Who are the main characters? John and Jesus, later joined by the priests, levites, and then the first disciples; When does this event take place? Around 80AD according to Alyson’s introduction to the book of John; Where did this happen? In Ephesus (a city in today’s Turkey); and Why is this being done or said? To lay the foundation for what is to come, and to teach us who Jesus is so that we may believe. Shenae also made a connection with John 20:30-31, key verses in the book of John. The whole reason the book was written was so that we might believe!
All the groups then came back together in the living room to share our findings and insights. I missed most of it again because I was slightly distracted by Isaac’s business, as well as my unborn son kicking around trying to expand his uterine fortress. I caught something about baptism and then Zacharias?… (someone else who was there, feel free to fill in…)
We broke off once again into our prayer groups- guys went outside and girls relaxed inside, and shared our ministry and prayer needs. By the time we were finishing we were made aware of a commotion outside- men yelling and laughing quite loudly! Upon investigating, we found our men in the pool having chicken fights, fully clothed!…. As I said before, there is no lack of entertainment with a group of goofy husbands together! J What’ll they end up doing next week?….
~Laura
