Buckhead…A Brilliant Weekend!

I don’t know if I’m more jealous of you hanging out with Carlos – or Carlos hanging out with you…:)

i’ll tell you something vicks, you should have been in england on saturday! it felt like a proper english summer day! clear blue sky, sun shining :) i even got burnt on my face and chest! got strap marks! guess its just that im not used to that weather here! but it’s back to april showers now :( shame.
sunday was a good day too, had a new elder welcomed into the church. god really spoke some powerful words in the morning. so fab to see people touched!
but i’ve got a question for you now. as you always ask the questions i thought i’d turn it around! lol!
what does it actually mean to fear God? i know its not to fear as in to be scared, but it say we should come before God boldly. he says we shouldnt be afraid. so what kind of fear is it? would be good to hear what you think :)
love Lucy x x x

Alright, you asked for it! :o) You caught me on a “home” weekend, so it was especially action-packed and fun-filled…

My weekend started on Thursday when I flew back home to Michigan (got in about midnight). Had a nice time in the airports and on the flights – talking to the interesting people I happened to meet. Hung with Dad and a couple of my sisters when I got to my parent’s place, and then crashed in bed about 2 am or so.

Slept in ’till about noon (nine am, my time) on Friday. Went to my place and got a few things done and had a little quiet time on the piano. Went to my sister’s elementary school and helped set up for Family Fun Night and also met a few more of my mom’s friends from her Mom’s In Touch prayer group. Enjoyed attending and shooting some photos for the Friday evening session of a conference with Doug Addison and Mark Gurley (a friend who helped start the Healing Rooms of Grand Rapids).

Got up a bit earlier on Saturday and enjoyed going to the second and third sessions of the conference. Took my sisters and a few friends to lunch at Uno’s between sessions, but was disappointed in the pizza crust. Apparently the chain versions of the restaurant do a “cheater” version of pizza crust that takes 10 minutes to cook instead of the 45 minute version that they make at the original location in Chicago. Oh well; everybody else seemed to enjoy it! I guess it wasn’t too bad… :o) After the conference, we did some family reading (The Silver Chair) back at my parents’ place. Mom’s great at reading out loud… every character has its own voice… so much fun! Picked up Mom’s mom (Grandma Burt) at the airport. It was so good to see her back in Michigan again; she moved to Arizona 15 years ago. After that, I went bowling with the two older of my sisters and some friends from our small group.

On Sunday, we went to church in the morning and then spent the afternoon and early evening with Grandma at her new place. It was fun touring around with her and seeing how much she loved everything! In the evening, I got together with a dear friend who’s been in Asia for a few years now. It was so good to hang with him and his wife and – for the first time – to see their two adorable daughters. Headed back home later in the evening and played a great game of Pictionary with the fam.

This morning, I had a good trip back out to Seattle, and now it’s just about time to head into work for a late evening in the labs.

My weekend was boring, HW. College, blah, blah, go home more blah, blah, blah. Nothing fun. I had a few business meetings and a great weekend @ the best church ever: Flatirons community church.

You sound like you lead an amazing life.
——– I have a challenge for you ——-
Post a video blog answering these questions. (If you want you can ask me any question, and I’ll respond to you.
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1. How long have you been in music professionally?

2. How’d you get started?

3. How long have you lived in the states?

4. Do you have any pets?

5. How many guitars do you own?

7. Are you single/dating anyone?

8. what do you like to do in your freetime?

Ah… weekends…

Mine was ok. Still very drained from the funeral of my friends wife so I was pretty subdued. Went to a play Friday night then finished a song I wrote for Samantha (friends wife) on Saturday.

Spent several hours ripping apart my dirt bike. This wonderful new gas they are selling went bad in my carburetor and so I had to take it apart and clean it. It was really gross. But, it’s running great now and is still life threatening fast. :) (How fast is it? Well… if your Jeep had the same power to weight ratio as my bike you would no longer have a 200 horsepower engine… you’d have a 900 horsepower engine.) That would be a sweet Jeep…

Sunday was my standard 15 hour work day. And that’s about it.

And not that you need my advice… but in regards to the fellow’s questions above… stay away from #7. You don’t need any stalkers or guys hitting on you on your blog.

Ah! CPK!! I remember that from my days in San Diego back in 2002 – it was the barbeque chicken salad that did it for me..! Mmmm, mmmm!
Weekend was cool – our young people led the church service for the first time! It’s taken some time for the ‘grown ups’ to get to the point of encouraging them to be involved to such a degree.. We live in a small parish.. But it was excellent, and I hope people came away feeling blessed and challenged by the vision, the energy, the passion that the youth of our church have for Christ! Bring it on!
Love, Gx

Hey Vicky ,
this weekend was good I went to youth group and to the Sunday Service and a conference my Dad did about Creation & Evolution.
So it was a Church weekend.
Too bad you weren’t our Worship Leader but our Worship time was great!

My weekend was not that exciting. At the moment we are moving to a new appartment which is quite nice. It’s only about 15min away (by car).
Saturday we cleaned the appartment and started to place in our things. The weekend before we went to my parents in Germany to pick up our furniture (we drove more than 2400km that weekend). The place we lived the last 1 1/2 years had everything, so we didn’t need our furniture here.

I did some worship at home on Sunday. I don’t go to church at the moment. Some months ago I tried to start again several times, but the young people there just ignored me. It was really frustrating being there alone in a crowd of people. Then it’s better to do it for yourself alone at home.

Apart from that I did nothing. Just relaxing as the two weeks before were full of actions :-)

Vicky,
I’m normally leading worship down at my church on St. Simons Island, GA, but was up in Norht Atlanta this past weekend. I’d really hoped to get down to Buckhead Church to see ya, but would up going to Northpoint’s Browns Bridge instead .. but I know it was awesome at Buckhead.

God bless,
Fred

I live here in Nashville but happened to be at the 9:00 service at Buckhead Church on Sunday. We very much enjoyed the worship you led–and the songs you’ve written. Thanks for sharing.