Recent Visitors

A lot of Americans have come through Singapore lately!  I have already mentioned the Haaks and Kleyns.  Besides the church events that they were a part of, our family got to spend some time with each of them.

With the Haaks at our place on a Sunday evening

With Kleyns at the zoo

Carriage ride at the zoo

The day of my husband's installation here, three men from Hope Church--Dave Jessup, Jonathon Kamps, and John VanBaren--were visiting Singapore on their way to Myanmar.  

 On the rooftop of the building where our church meets

With some of the church members after the second service

Because of all the American visitors that day (those three men and the Kleyns), the youth hosted a dinner after the second service.  Before dinner, we played some games.  The men from Hope had to do pictionary, including such things as "Canons of Dordt" and "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."  The Kleyns had to do charades, including "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."  My husband and I had to do Singapore slang, deciding which Singapore word (Bo jio, Abuden, Swee, or a few others) belonged as a proper response to some given sentences. Finally, there was a math question that one member of each team tried to tackle.

Ivan leading the games

Dave Jessup drawing "Nothing new under the sun"

Charades

We didn't know the Singapore slang, but we gave it our best 

shot and got some good crowd reactions!

Our math question (#1), which 6th-graders here are expected to know how to do

After a few minutes I gave up and watched John VanBaren, while Rev. Kleyn 

waited to write down John's answer as his own as soon as John finished. :-)

This picture pretty much sums up our afternoon--lots of laughing.

Group photo at the end of the evening

The last few days we enjoyed a visit from Justin & Cathie Koole and Gary & Judy Kaptein from Faith Church.

Lunch before a river cruise downtown

Some adventurous ones tried jackfruit, coconut, and even durian!

Lunch in Chinatown

Shopping in Chinatown

Fellowship at a homeschoolers' outing Friday--

They were able to meet quite a few people from church Friday evening.

At the Singapore Zoo on Saturday

Renewing acquaintances--Gary and Gim Theng were elder 

delegates to the same synod a couple of years ago.

At church on Sunday

We had a wonderful time with all of these visitors and are also glad they were able to fellowship with the saints here.