I have meaning to write this for a few weeks but have been too busy. Fortunately last week the President declared Monday and Tuesday of this week to be national holidays so I had a chance to catch up on a few things :-)
I have a “small world” event to tell. Before we came to the Philippines, we saw the movie Soul Surfer in the theatre. It is a movie about the 13 year old surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark and yet within a matter of weeks continued her career as a competitive surfer. Her story is known all over the world. It was a great movie, my kids loved it and we highly recommend seeing it if you haven’t yet.(It is now out on DVD) Part of the movie had Bethany Hamilton’s church going on mission trips to Mexico and Thailand and they showed a short clip of a church service in Hawaii. Well, a few weeks ago a mission team from Hawaii arrived in Boracay. They have been financially supporting the mission work here and the building of Agape Boracay Academy and have come multiple times to help with the construction. They are a wonderful group of people that have made a huge difference for the kids here. (We hope to have another visit with them as we make our way back to Canada in late June 2012 - God willing. :-) )
Interestingly, they are associated with Bethany Hamilton from the movie. The worship team shown in the movie had two of their children in it. The “Hawaiians” brought the movie to show the children here and one of the men got up and spoke afterwards, to help share Bethany’s story and to say that the movie very accurately portrays Bethany’s personality. His son is good friends with Bethany’s brother and Bethany often comes to their house to visit. One of the stories that I like, I think Mair got this out of the book, was that the director got frustrated with Bethany because she kept having him re-shoot scenes. For example, she had them reshoot the church scene because the congregation was sombre during the singing. She said that wasn’t accurate, in her church when people are worshipping they are smiling and vibrant. I am glad she made that change because in my church at home and my church here, when people are singing they are joyful too. Also one of the actresses in the movie did not want the Bible to be shown and kept asking for a cloth to be used to hide it and Bethany refused because she wanted people to understand the importance of her faith and the source of her strength and courage.
In any case, I thought it was cool that we saw a movie with a group of Christians in it that were doing mission service around the world and that that group showed up here. Small world :-)
The following are links to Bethany's website and the website of the church that the mission group attends.
http://bethanyhamilton.com/
http://www.calvarychapelnscf.com/North_Shore_Christian_Fellowship/Welcome.html
p.s. I borrowed the following pictures from their website :-)
I have a “small world” event to tell. Before we came to the Philippines, we saw the movie Soul Surfer in the theatre. It is a movie about the 13 year old surfer who had her arm bitten off by a shark and yet within a matter of weeks continued her career as a competitive surfer. Her story is known all over the world. It was a great movie, my kids loved it and we highly recommend seeing it if you haven’t yet.(It is now out on DVD) Part of the movie had Bethany Hamilton’s church going on mission trips to Mexico and Thailand and they showed a short clip of a church service in Hawaii. Well, a few weeks ago a mission team from Hawaii arrived in Boracay. They have been financially supporting the mission work here and the building of Agape Boracay Academy and have come multiple times to help with the construction. They are a wonderful group of people that have made a huge difference for the kids here. (We hope to have another visit with them as we make our way back to Canada in late June 2012 - God willing. :-) )
Interestingly, they are associated with Bethany Hamilton from the movie. The worship team shown in the movie had two of their children in it. The “Hawaiians” brought the movie to show the children here and one of the men got up and spoke afterwards, to help share Bethany’s story and to say that the movie very accurately portrays Bethany’s personality. His son is good friends with Bethany’s brother and Bethany often comes to their house to visit. One of the stories that I like, I think Mair got this out of the book, was that the director got frustrated with Bethany because she kept having him re-shoot scenes. For example, she had them reshoot the church scene because the congregation was sombre during the singing. She said that wasn’t accurate, in her church when people are worshipping they are smiling and vibrant. I am glad she made that change because in my church at home and my church here, when people are singing they are joyful too. Also one of the actresses in the movie did not want the Bible to be shown and kept asking for a cloth to be used to hide it and Bethany refused because she wanted people to understand the importance of her faith and the source of her strength and courage.
In any case, I thought it was cool that we saw a movie with a group of Christians in it that were doing mission service around the world and that that group showed up here. Small world :-)
The following are links to Bethany's website and the website of the church that the mission group attends.
http://bethanyhamilton.com/
http://www.calvarychapelnscf.com/North_Shore_Christian_Fellowship/Welcome.html
p.s. I borrowed the following pictures from their website :-)
WOW Indeed what a small world!!!We love that movie .I took Jasmine and a friend the day it opened and have the DVD also.I want to support those kinds of movies as much as possible.So glad to hear you are all well and enjoying your adventure!!!! Mair the couple from our church Kirby & Shavonne Martin are leaving for the Phillipines on Nov.21st.You are in our prayers a lot!! Thanks for the fridg magnet.:)
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