She Ate a Rat!

My friend Kimberlee Frost is currently a PC(USA) Young Adult Volunteer in Ghana. You can read about her adventures at my life in ghana... . Her most recent post, i heart eating meat... is both hilarious and moving. It's moving because it demonstrates the kinds of incredible experiences she is having. It's hilarious because for years Kimberlee was a vegetarian...well, mostly at least. I would have never imagined her eating a rat. Mission work is great...

Catching Up

I've been way behind on blogging the past several weeks. I'll try to do some catching up this weekend...

Water Polo Rocks!

Okay, so this weekend turned out to not be so hot for a Senior High retreat. I was pretty bummed earlier this week when it looked like we would have to cancel it. But then I got the idea that if people can't go because of other events, I would do everything I could to make it to those events.

So, Jeff and I began our weekend of event jumping by catching the end of Stu and Jacob's water polo game. This was the first water polo match either one of us had been to. We both agreed that this is an awesome sport. There are more games tomorrow, which I'm pretty pumped for.

Tomorrow we'll also see Elsa play lacrosse and Sierra and Allison perform in a play. On Sunday we'll see Ben and Jacob play soccer.

I hope to have pictures of all this tomorrow.

Feel free to join us. This is a great weekend to see everyone in their element!

Fast Food Justice

This Sunday at Senior Highs (12:30 to 2:00 in the Crow's Nest), we will welcome two great speakers who will share with us their work with farm workers seeking justice from fast food companies.

Don't Let McDonald's Profit From Farm worker Exploitation!

Join the Rev. Noelle Damico, coordinator of the PC(USA)'s Campaign for Fair Food and a farm worker from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to learn more about how the church is working with tomato pickers to demand McDonald's ensure human rights and fair wages, and why youth are essential in this movement.

April 13 and 14 will be major days of action with the farm workers here in Chicagoland. There are lots of ways you can participate. Come to the presentation and visit www.pcusa.org/fairfood and www.ciw-online.org for more information.

The Theology of "24"

I must admit that I'm not a follower of the hit TV show 24. I vaguely remember watching it for a few episodes when it first began and noting how bold a show it was coming so soon after 9/11. But I guess I lost interest and never got back on the bandwagon.

Yesterday's Sightings had a really interesting piece on the theological aspects of the show. You should check it our here.

I suppose I ought to rent the DVDs, catch up, and join the masses.