Tim and Shendy Gibson - Welcome to our journal

Well, i've just set up our web journal. I say 'our' because this is the web journal of a Christian couple. We are 'one' according to the Bible and so this journal is not just of one person's individualistic life but that of a family.

That in itself is quite different to the norm. Indeed, even setting up this journal I could tell it was designed with one person in mind (I was asked to choose male or female, birthday etc..).

Anyway, as you would have read in our intro., my name is Tim Gibson and my wife is Shendy. I'm an Englishman whose been living in Singapore since 1988 and my wife is a born and bred Singaporean. Our three kids were all born in Singapore and speak (those who can) Singlish (this is a mixture of English and a particular Sigaporean mix of words and grammatical constructions - eg. 'Can or cannot?' means '"Is it OK for me to do this?").

Well, let's get down to the events of today...

This morning I took Melody and her cousin (Esther) to our Church building (at the base of Bukit Timah hill) at 8am for the church camp. It started yesterday and will end at 6pm tomorrow. Although it's called a 'camp' it lasts only from 8am-6pm and then the kids go home to sleep and go back the next day. The 'camp' is held in the aircon church and consists of lots of eating, fun , teaching and worship. This is quite typical for all Singaporean Church camps actually!! (the adult ones are usualy in 4 or 5 star hotels in Malaysia).

Then I did some shopping and went home to find Shen tidying up the kids room with Gideon, Matthew being fast asleep on our bed. I then went to my office to do preparations for tonight (i'm leading the Prayer Meeting at the church from 7.30pm-9.30pm)and other admin things. I'll be leading prayer for all the missions trips our Church currently has out (Thailand and China). Then i'll teach on Building Altars and the spiritual meaning of them (i'll put the material for download on http://www.timshen.truepath.com/teaching.html soon).

Inbetween all this we packed Christmas prezzies for my family in England which was fun.

I'm just holding Matthew writing this before going off to pick up Melody and Esther with Gideon and then i'll lead the prayer meeting.

See you soon...

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