Category Archives: Cell group

Power outage and a week later

Supper with Ben and Astrid was real nice. We tried curry, two types. Ben’s traditional one, and a Thai green curry that Astrid put together. Astrid’s one was considerably hotter, and we smelled the after-effects of the curry for days! … Continue reading

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Mish-mash

Reader, be warned. This blog post is about quite a variety of topics. The discerning reader will perhaps find it boring. But after 2 weeks without a post, I’ve got a backlog, and I’m not going to split it into … Continue reading

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Go tournament success

This last weekend was the fourth quarter 2006 SA Internet Go tournament, and I was involved in some serious ass-whippin’! I won group 2 in the last tournament, which qualified me to participate in group 1 this tourney, and with … Continue reading

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Throwing it all away

This post is about last night’s Go. I arrived at Go last night with Adrian, and ended up chatting to Alex, who we bumped into there about our cell group’s dynamics, and if/how he fits in there, and what he … Continue reading

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What does it take to be “saved”?

Yesterday, our cell group met at our house for the last time before we move. We handled chapter 29 of the Screwtape letters, where Screwtape exhorts Wormwood to look after his patient’s physical well-being as far as possible, since his … Continue reading

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“Ook dit sal verbygaan”

Yesterday, our cell group took a break from the Screwtape Letters (a book by C.S. Lewis we’ve been working through), and listened to a sermon from the Moedergemeente in Stellenbosch. Richard preached about the importance of patience and perseverance in … Continue reading

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Updating

Well, the blogging curse seems to have hit me: infrequent updates. Things have been quite busy the last while, and I’ve been trying to deliver some decent updates of my thesis to my professor, with which I have been moderately … Continue reading

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Another update

So, it’s quarter past eleven on a Saturday, and I’m in my office. I’ve decided I’m not going to get any more work done on my thesis tonight, so I’ll head home soon. Tomorrow, I’ll try some more. This is … Continue reading

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Last night

So last night our cell group had a refresher course on helping out at the night shelter. It was good to see that Arion, the superintendent has a couple of new people eager to help him out. He told us … Continue reading

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