Weekends

Here it is.. hmmmm.. Sunday evening. I have had a long weekend.

Friday night I had a PWOC board planning "retreat" at the Officers Club on base. It was nice, BUT the air conditioner was OUT! So, it was *very* hot. We worked on figuring out our skills, passions, attitudes, etc. It was an interesting night.

I woke up early on Saturday and finished working on my programs for the year with PWOC. I brought a fan to the final 10-6 meeting. It was applauded. :) We worked more on our strengths and weaknesses and then went to work on planning on the year. One thing we failed to accomplish was to learn of Felisha's (our president) vision for the coming year, and then to state our goals for the year. We tried and tabled them only succeeding in making very generic goals.
1. To reach the women in the pews at RAFB chapel.
2. To reach the women of RAFB.
3. To strengthen the women of PWOC in their Christian walk.

Ok. Those are nice, but we didn't plan how to accomplish those. It was disheartening. There were many, "we didn't do this or that last year", "I didn't like this last year", "You offended me here or there when I came to PWOC", etc. I tried to make my comments constructive but positive. There were many prayers going up during the "retreat".

Last night David and I went to the Atlanta Bread company. It was good, I had a Greek salad. We then went to our favorite shopping strip and I headed to Michael's while David headed to Books a Million. We drank coffee and David picked up 2 more computer books. He loves that place.

I picked up a few things for next week's "work" Sunday for the PWOC welcome tea. I am getting more and more excited about putting that together. Since our theme is "unity to let the world know" I am doing an International Tea. We will have tea and desserts from around the world. I have asked Kitty to make some German cookies, Sharon to make some Korean tea and cookies. I will be asking Ms. Faynetta to make some lace cookies, and to borrow her silver tea service for the meeting. I am hoping to ask Ms. DiAnne from Mississippi to come up for the weekend. We shall see.

I am also planning on using tea pots filled with fresh ivy for the centerpieces. I will be making and buying small country flags to put into the tea pots. I will then make up a small fact-sheet about the country of which I have flags. I will put on it the country's motto, bird, etc. I am hoping to research some Christian facts or maybe some "Voice of the martyr's" info about some of the 3rd world countries around the world. This way I can put some prayer facts for each of the countries as well. I want to make up a few index cards at each table as well that will have those facts on them and make it something that the women can take home with them and continue to pray about. Again, we shall see. That's a lot to get together before next Sunday when I have the work day.

The tea will be on Aug. 19th. I plan to take lots of pictures and of course have an update here. :)

Anyways, today was the last day of our senior Protestant chaplain, Burrell. They had a fish fry in his honor, and of course we had a "hail" for our new senior Protestant chaplain Page. This will become confusing at some point. We have a Ch. Payne and a Ch. Page. Whew.. His family seems nice, we are looking forward to working with him at PWOC, he's our new guy! I need to get back to work on the house, that's what I've finished the weekend off with.

We received rain this weekend as well. Thank God, prayers never cease to answered around here. I've planted a few new things in the garden and around in the beds. I was hoping I wouldn't have to water every day for the next week. God is soooooo good.

Til later..
Christa.