Frozen Fog

 

it can be so pretty in the morning

 

 

the sun shining on all that white stuff

 

 

you have to be quick before it disappears

 

 

love to take pictures against the sun

 

 

 

Well this came on Thursday,

wonder when we are going to do something with it

 



Operation Christmas Child making shoeboxes

Tonight marc is going to work at the warehouse
He will take our boxes along

 

every kid needs a stuffy

 

 

a toy, a toothbrush

 

 

crayon, pencil, paper, candy, soap & a cloth

 

 

and a cap to top it off

 

 

 

almost ready

Win a Quilt

Actually I got 2nd or 3rd price

The interesting thing is that I filled in the ballot at Zehrs

Farming

Rien left for the Netherlands. Before the airplane took off we already had the vet in the yard. The cow is doing well. The mixed twins were stillborn. 

SHIP November

We tried something new at SHIP
we have a phone and we wanted to see if people would text us

 

The other new thing was

 to see if there would be interest to go on a mission trip

 

 

kind of new, from being away, Angie was back

 

 

There are a lot of young people staying for fellowship

at the coffee house

 

 

This was our subject:

 

 

one of the questions was the reliability of the bible

here is one answer to that question:

 

Some critics doubt that we even have the original New Testament. This issue can only be settled by using bibliographical tests for reliability,

 . Compare to other great works (MSS = manuscripts):

Author	Date Written	Earliest MSS	Time Span	No. MSS
Caesar	100–44 BC	AD 900	1,000 yrs	10
Plato	427–347 BC	AD 900	1,200 yrs	7
Thucydides	460–400 BC	AD 900	1,300 yrs	8
Tacitus	AD 100	AD 1100	1,000 yrs	20
Suetonius	AD 75–160	AD 950	800 yrs	8
Homer (Iliad)	900 BC	400 BC	500 yrs	643
New Testament	AD 40–100	AD 125	25–50 yrs	>24,000!

“The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no-one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.

so, why don't you start reading?
read through the whole book or read the gospels for a year
January: Matthew, February: Mark, March Luke, April: John, May: Matthew



Youth Band first time at DRC

George has been mentoring a group of youth

so they could use their God given talent in the morning worship service

 

They had practised quite a few times
and that paid off
sure hope they will lead music again


 

Common view

I will likely be able to take lots of pictures just like this one

Hot Turkey Sandwich

Playing a kind of taboo game

 

 

we love to play games at Les Amis

 



 

and when we do charades we talk about a time when John did

"Hot Turkey Sandwich"

It almost looked like he was trying this again

 

 

 

 

lots of good fun

 



Trucking Corn

 

2 different transport trucks

 

 

Both were filled

 

 

and driven to the dryer

 

 

not everyone is smart enough to parks on hard surface

 

 

Near Teviotdale someone was quite stuck

 



Corn Harvest

 

Lately we have had all kinds of weather

 

 

even some good harvesting weather

 

 

The corn was running well

 

 

Rien went around the field with John

 

 

Matt & Leona in the tractor

 

 

The ground was frozen in the morning

 

 

 

Psalm 67: May the peoples praise you, God;
    may all the peoples praise you.

 The land yields its harvest;
    God, our God, blesses us.
May God bless us still,
    so that all the ends of the earth will fear him



Fast and Furious Storm

 

 

Only a few branches came down

 

 

Our roof should get new shingles next summer

 

40 Albert & Lysje

40 years of marriage

 

Sarah sang a song

 

 

After diner we played crokinole

 

 

It was a lot of fun

 

 

Every time people changed tables, but I often saw Theresa & Anita

 

 

6 people were present with the name John

 

 

A fun way to celebrate 40 years

 



 

Hoity Toity wine tasting

 

After the tour of the shop we went to the cellar

the basement of the house

 

 

we got little sips from different wines

 

the first one we tried was Maid's night off

not my kind of wine, liked Dusty white gloves way better

 

 

you only need a little sip to know if you like a wine or cider

 

we tried ciders from apple and pear

I liked the pear one the best

the name was gravel snowstorm I think

They sure put some humor in their wine naming

 Frosty fake pearls was ice wine like

 

 

This was my personal favourite

Belle of the Barn

 

We still have grapes, we could make ice-wine...

...or just buy some