Literature Day at LACS

The Berenstain Bear Family

The Cat in the Hat

Miss Swamp from Miss Nelson Is Missing

Today was Literature Day at Los Angeles Christian School. All of the teachers and  many of the students were dressed as favorite literary characters. (I am enough of a character without dressing up!) I read Bedtime for Frances to the 2nd and 3rd graders. Bob read Dr. DeSoto to another group of students. There were other guest readers and lots of fun activities. It was hard to tell who was having the best time--the students or the teachers!

Lunch at LACS

Yesterday I helped with lunch duty. Here are photos of the lunchroom at LACS (Los Angeles Christian School). Picnic tables. Sunshine. The noise of exuberant children drifting to the sky (instead of bouncing of the walls of a school cafeteria). What treat! Friday is chapel day, and the children are wearing their chapel uniforms.

A Blessed Weekend

What an amazing weekend!

Saturday we attended the 38th Annual Los Angeles Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. We had good food, heard some speeches, listened to the Azusa Pacific University Men's Chorale...and prayed. We were led in times of prayer for the city, the mayor, the city council, and the police department. Francis Chan challenged us to act upon what we heard, to be in awe that the Mighty God, Creator of all things, will listen to our prayers IF we come to Him, the One True God, in humility, repentance, with right motives, and without doubt. The name of Jesus was lifted up. In our day it is unusual for such a public event to be so clearly Christ-focused and for prayers to be made to the Father in the name of His Son. I was convicted in my own heart of the wrong attitude I have toward California and Los Angeles. "As goes California, so goes the nation." In my mind that has been a statement of hopelessness. But God is sovereign over all. If we His people repent, pray, and seek Him, the light of Jesus will shine even more brightly here in LA and beyond!

A highlight for me was getting to meet Rosey Grier and having a brief conversation with him. (See the fuzzy photo above. Bob's arm was still in a sling so it was difficult to keep the iPod steady.)

On Sunday we attended La Iglesia En El Camino (Los Angeles). We have been visiting this church for the past couple of months. They meet right next door to us at the Los Angeles Christian School (a World Impact school). The service is mainly in Spanish. (Many of you are probably thinking, "I didn't know that Bob and Chris spoke Spanish." We don't. :-)  However, the church is moving toward being bilingual. We are given headsets each week, and someone translates the service for us. Yesterday, we even sang a couple of verses of a song in English! We have been lovingly received there. At one point in the service the pastor began talking about a couple who had moved from another state to minister in LA. Bob and I were both wondering what other couple was new to the church from another state.Then the pastor said our names. He asked everyone to extend their hands toward us while he prayed for us. We felt overwhelmed, in a very wonderful way.

We have been blessed!