Rockin' in the Orchard

Well, well, well... what do we have here? You are reading my blog, therefore you are either bored or genuinely interested in what I've been up to. I'll leave it up to you.

In the event that you're reading this because you are actually genuinely interested in what I have been up to I suppose I should at least write something. The last two days I've had the opportunity, along with a few other YWAMers, to pick cherries at an orchard down the road for a bit of extra cash. Ordinarily it'd be alright money but we're rookies when it comes to cherry picking. Five dollars a bucket at an average of four buckets an hour sounds pretty good, it's tricky to do four buckets in hour though. Much harder than it sounds. So we ended up making probably just over ten dollars an hour, which sounds alright to most Canadians, but in Australia that's about as low as it gets. I guess I do have the right to now say "I've picked cherries before".

One of the other things that's kept us busy this week at the base is preparation for a fund raising dinner this Saturday evening. The dinner is being put on for about 60 guests and we are hoping to raise funds to support the YWAM base as well as it's various ministries. Prep for the dinner includes decorations, cooking (which apparently involves me, somehow), mowing lawn and prettying up the gardens, and cleaning everything else more than usual. It seems like a big deal for a small amount of people, but we're trusting that God will move in marvelous ways to not only bring in support money for YWAM but to bring Youth With A Mission, and more so God, into the city of Adelaide.

So it's now Friday night and I feel sort of lame for sitting here and blogging instead of doing something exciting, but I was up early to cherry pick and I'll probably end up going to bed early as well. Cheers and blessings and I'll talk to some of you at an undisclosed and later date.