Mattituck Pictures

New York PIZZA!!!

Chloe's B-day Party

Great Grandma (Evelyn the Great) and Poppy,
or Grandma and Poppy and also Mom and Dad

It was also Lucy's B-day party

Jen and Kristen

The grand kids!!

Grandma and the B-day girls

The family table

Poppy and Lucy

Sarah and Olivia!

Here are some pictures of our family's time together in Mattituck.

BACK HOME

It's been a while since my last post and at this point I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this or not.
Pam and I made it back home to Maryland on August 6th. After being picked up and driven home by one of my wonderful choir members Diana Bobo, we unpacked a little and tried to stay up passed 9:00 PM. That didn't happen. We went to bed around 8:30. We got up the next morning and packed the car and drove to NY, Mattituck Long Island to be exact. We were there for just about 2 weeks. Our one daughter Jennifer and family (Brian and Lucy and Olivia) came down from Albany to spend time with us, and our other daughter Kristen and family (Jerry and Sarah and Chloe) live in Riverhead which is only about 20 minutes away from where we were staying. So we got to see and play with all our grand kids - a lot - a very good thing. Even my parents came out from Ronkonkoma several days.
We both got back to work yesterday for the first time since we left for Europe on June 18th. it was a very long day for both of us!!
But this is not a blog about my grand kids although I have to say I can talk about them forever it seems, I had to mention what I have been doing for these past two weeks. (However, tomorrow, I will be posting a few pictures of our time together since they are all so wonderful!!)
I will continue to blog and try to have the site used as a place for worship resource materials to be found and used. And if I can find the time maybe some articles about worship also.
I would also like for this site to be used for those who might have questions or comments about worship. Creating dialog is a great way to learn and grow.
John

Faculty Meeting

This Friday and Saturday we had our bi-annual faculty meeting at the Haus. Most of the permanent faculty were here for it. So i thought I would take some pictures of who was here.

From the right to the left, Cathy Kissling who is our registrar. Mike Crull, European VP and also teaches Discipleship. Then Laszlo Gerzsenyi from Hungry who is the National Director and teaches Biblical Studies, New Testament classes mostly.

The next picture shows Oti Bunaciu who is the National Director for Romania and teaches in the field of Church History. Next to him is Tony Twist the president of TCMI and who teaches the Theology and Practice of Pray class. Patrick Nullens who teaches for Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven (Belgium) and us. He teaches in the field of Systematic Theology.

In the next picture is Patrick again and then Roger Kemp our Academic Dean, who teaches New Testament, Missions and some church history. Roger is from Sidney Australia.

Then Paul Kissling our Old Testament Professor and teaches several other classes also.

Then Pam Sarno the Librarian here at TCMI. Then you can see my computer.

This next picture is most of us gathered around watching a video from Sermon Spice, which was a website they haven't seen before.

And then finally a picture of Pam and me taken out by the goldfish pond.

Tomorrow we leave for home for some down time and time to play with the grandkids!!!!

John

More Pictures

This is one of my last days in the office here with TCMI. Tomorrow we start a couple of days of faculty meetings and then the STW and professors from the states arrive. There is another session starting this Monday. It looks like there will be a full crowd here also. In the 90's so that's a pretty full house for a 2 week session.
I found some more photo's that I thought you might like to see.

The first one I call Skinny Dippin' in the Baltic Sea.




I found the place where Charlie Brown gets his Christmas trees.



This was my class at the beginning of the week in Tallinn.


Here is what the class looked like after the the rest of Tallinn found out that I was teaching. It was so large we had to rent an outdoors theater.

A double take and then thought, "Nope, not for me!"

John