silly
Sherry | March 14, 2010
I’ve spent the weekend with a bunch of lovely and silly women out here at the coast. Maybe you know some of them.
You get the idea.
hadassah
Sherry | February 28, 2010
The inveterate stay-at-home Mauri and Sherry want you to know they have ventured out to enjoy two drama performances in the past two weeks.
Joseph, the young man on the right, was a toddler when I first met him. And we’re particularly fond of his extended family. So of course we wouldn’t want to miss seeing [...]
spring in february?
Sherry | February 21, 2010
Oregon is purported to be a rainy state. We get our share, it’s true. But days like today make me forget winter still has a ways to go.
team meeting
Sherry | February 2, 2010
On Tuesdays we meet as a team (pastors and Denise and me) to check in, do a spiritual practice, pray, work through an agenda, and eat lunch together. I love team meeting so didn’t necessarily long for a change, but today’s field trip to Tilikum was especially nice because the sun added lovely warmth to [...]
dq
Sherry | January 16, 2010
Mauri’s home for one day between week two and week three of three retreats at Twin Rocks Friends Camp’s Harbor Villa. The weather out at the coast hasn’t cooperated much with his picture-taking plans, but, alas, on Thursday night God painted the sky like you wouldn’t believe, and here’s what Mauri captured in his lens.
I [...]
it’s about time!
Sherry | January 11, 2010
Let’s see, I’ve worked at Newberg Friends Church since September 8, 2003—six plus years—and I just now got my own office door plate. I guess it was just an extra long trial period, you know, to prove I had enough staying power to merit an official sign. But the new youth pastor didn’t have to [...]
more christmas fun
Sherry | December 17, 2009
Earlier this week we replaced our weekly team meeting with a Christmas brunch. A white elephant exchange traditionally comes up in the planning and this year was no exception.
Unfortunately, Mauri didn’t get to keep the cool Star Wars light saber.
No one stole my singing Christmas puppy puppet, so I brought it home, although the host’s [...]
cone
Sherry | December 5, 2009
Ever since reading The Art of Racing in the Rain, I’ve wondered what Darcy is thinking. This book is written in the first person, with a dog as the “I” character, which is preposterous, of course, but interesting nonetheless. The dog doesn’t talk, or anything strange like that, but we know what he’s thinking all [...]
’tis the season
Sherry | December 4, 2009
Mauri is brimming with Christmas spirit. He’s decorated the windows with battery-operated candles, he’s started thinking about stocking stuffers, NFC Brass played its annual two-hour gig of Christmas music at Chapters,
and maybe most indicative of all —
his Christmas tree latte art!
photoshop fun
Sherry | November 23, 2009
On Sunday we held our annual Thanksgiving service at George Fox University’s Bauman Auditorium, which is big enough to hold our entire congregation. In all of the pre-service activity I bounced around with my point-and-shoot camera trying to capture the highlights of the morning. My flash wasn’t strong enough to get a better picture than [...]