Hey everyone! Sorry that I haven't been updating very much lately! Today was a busy but really good day. First after getting up and getting myself ready, I caught trolly bus #5 which took me close enough to Carl & Becky's that I was able to walk the rest of the way. Once I arrived at Carl & Becky's I did some blogging while the teens were showing up. We had a huge group! I think we had 14 which is a large amount for this size church! The first thing I did with the teens was teach them how to play the game "Mafia". They seemed to enjoy it, but this is a game that needs good strategy and you can't develop that strategy until you have played it several times. We'll definitely play it again so they can get the hang of it. Anyway, as soon as the game was finished I had to leave the Bible Study and head to RRBC where I practiced the music for today. When I first walked in to RRBC, I met a group of young musicians from the Baptist church (this is their building, RRBC just rents the use of it). Their band was practicing and I was actually able to help them a little bit. You see they didn't have a tuner and they were trying to get one of the guitars tuned by using the piano. None of them had "a musicians ear" and they had actually gotten the guitar in an alternate tuning by mistake! Oops! So I was more than happy to fix this little problem for them. (I was very careful with how I interacted with them. I didn't want to seem like I knew it all, or thought less of them because they didn't!) After that I practiced with a singer/songwriter that attends RRBC, her name is Elija. (Note that all j's sound like y's in Latvian.) She has one the best sounding voices that I've ever heard and she is an excellent songwriter. I've heard some of her songs playing on the Christian radio station here in Riga! We played 4 songs, one of them I knew (In Christ Alone, translated) and the other 3 were new to me. God really blessed the music and everything went smoothly. After church I went to Carl & Becky's where I spent some time with members from RRC (Ungar's church). The picture above was taken there. The fellowship was good and was filled with plenty of laughter and silly jokes... Anyway, that about sums it up!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Day 17 Sunday June 13th 2010
Hey everyone! Sorry that I haven't been updating very much lately! Today was a busy but really good day. First after getting up and getting myself ready, I caught trolly bus #5 which took me close enough to Carl & Becky's that I was able to walk the rest of the way. Once I arrived at Carl & Becky's I did some blogging while the teens were showing up. We had a huge group! I think we had 14 which is a large amount for this size church! The first thing I did with the teens was teach them how to play the game "Mafia". They seemed to enjoy it, but this is a game that needs good strategy and you can't develop that strategy until you have played it several times. We'll definitely play it again so they can get the hang of it. Anyway, as soon as the game was finished I had to leave the Bible Study and head to RRBC where I practiced the music for today. When I first walked in to RRBC, I met a group of young musicians from the Baptist church (this is their building, RRBC just rents the use of it). Their band was practicing and I was actually able to help them a little bit. You see they didn't have a tuner and they were trying to get one of the guitars tuned by using the piano. None of them had "a musicians ear" and they had actually gotten the guitar in an alternate tuning by mistake! Oops! So I was more than happy to fix this little problem for them. (I was very careful with how I interacted with them. I didn't want to seem like I knew it all, or thought less of them because they didn't!) After that I practiced with a singer/songwriter that attends RRBC, her name is Elija. (Note that all j's sound like y's in Latvian.) She has one the best sounding voices that I've ever heard and she is an excellent songwriter. I've heard some of her songs playing on the Christian radio station here in Riga! We played 4 songs, one of them I knew (In Christ Alone, translated) and the other 3 were new to me. God really blessed the music and everything went smoothly. After church I went to Carl & Becky's where I spent some time with members from RRC (Ungar's church). The picture above was taken there. The fellowship was good and was filled with plenty of laughter and silly jokes... Anyway, that about sums it up!
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