The Red Sea

Today I took the photos and I want to tell you about Sunday service. OK, let me start, as usual John and Stephen lead us in songs and worship and some Kidz-up songs.



This is the action song in Kannada, all childrens were happy to sing and do the actions. The song is "Esu Rakthadalli Nanniruve" which means I am in the blood of Jesus.


Here is the part of story which is held by Cameron, from couple weeks he has been telling the story of Moses with the little skit. Today was the more interesting time because in this story skit all the childrens and adults were present in the skit. He had chosen a good persons to play role like Pharoah and Moses. OK, let's see who is Pharoah?


Here is Tony as a Pharoah. Really his acting was pretty good. Moses is Krishna. Everyone had parts as good people or bad people. There were two floor mats which were used as the Red Sea. I think today all enjoyed the story time and next Sunday Moses story will be finished.



Evening we had walked around the beach to Colva. This last photo is for Mom, because she cannot be in Goa on her birthday, so she is missing all the good sunsets. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEAR MOM!

Film Day And The Beach

On Thursdays, we show a children's film at the center. We usually start things off with some singing. Today I learned a new thing. Hephzibah will play the drums when asked to. Is she any good? Mmmm... Honestly? She's on the low side of so-so. But she was asked to play and she tried it out. What more can you say?




Then, in the afternoon, I went for a short walk on the beach. Always some interesting things to capture. Today, I saw two men giving a water buffalo a bath. This fellow will be used for the illegal bull fights in a couple months. His horns are a bit on the small side, I think.


Then I took a photo of the other foreigners taking photos of the men giving the water buffalo a bath. And behind me was someone taking a photo of... Forget it.


Then, birds and some boys playing cricket on the beach. It's way more fun to watch cricket on the beach than at the stadium. When you're watching cricket on the beach, you can just walk away after one minute when you get bored.





And a starfish...

A Mix of Tuesday Photos

I sorta forgot that I had a camera with me today until near the end of our children's time. Unlike last week, which was canceled due to heavy raining, we had quite nice weather and a good group of kids.




Posting is going to be a bit low over the next two weeks. Just warning you. A lot of miscellaneous things to get done.

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Leftover Roundup 2

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon. Time for another installment of Leftover Roundup. This is to round up some loose photos, that I liked, but that just didn't make the cut for previous posts.

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"It Is Made Of Soft"

This afternoon, Hephzibah and I went to the beach. She was wanting to collect a few more shells for her art project. When we got there, I saw this strange thing. A statue of a four-armed person with no head standing in front of an elephant. It seemed to be made of straw and mud and had a wooden stake lodged in its shoulder.


Then I went for a short walk down the beach but only managed one photo of these guys fishing before it started to rain.


So, I caught up with Hephzibah and we were heading towards our scooter when this truck backed up to the beach and unloaded all these people...


Hephzibah thought it to be one extended family taking their Ganesh idols to the sea. Every year, families or villages will take a Ganesh and put him in the nearest source of water. She says they put him in the water so he can go to his home.






About eight men carried him into the sea and let him go. He sunk. In my mind, I was imagining the multitude of Ganesh statues underwater from all the families releasing him over the past couple days. Hephzibah said , "They will not stay long. They are like the statue we first saw when we got to the beach. It is made of soft."

Anant Chaturdashi In Colva

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A Walk On The Beach And Mehandi For The Hand

Hephzibah and her sister, Leena, have been brainstorming some kind of art project that requires daily trips to the beach and bringing home bags full of shells. I think the final result will be shells glued onto a black cloth in a floral pattern. But, right now, there's just a big pile of shells out on our balcony.

Today, while they were combing the beach for shells, I went for a walk. The first two photos are of beach shacks/restaurants being rebuilt. They take them down every year before monsoon season and build them back up again after the rain is finished.



Then I saw some jelly fish washed up on the shore. The first one is a bit boring and I couldn't figure out where it's legs or tails were. The second one was a bit more nasty and measured around a foot and a half long.



Then, hermit crabs. After picking them up, I had a hard time getting them to come out of their shells to take a photo. I found that if I put them quickly into the water and pulled them out, they would start moving and reaching out.




For dinner, we headed over to John and Deena's. This next photo was taken close to our place. We were too far away from the beach to catch the nice sunset but we still saw some nice colors in the sky for about five minutes.


And lastly, Hephzibah did some mehandi work on Leena's hand. Sometimes called henna, it comes in a tube and looks and feels like mud. It's often used to fancy-up the bride for a Hindu wedding. This took about 20 minutes to complete. Then you have to wait 30 minutes or so for it to properly dry. After removing the clumpy and dry mehandi, it will leave a reddish/brown stain that will last a week or so.