Visitors from Northern Ireland

At last year's British Reformed Fellowship Conference in Northern Ireland, we met Dr. Julian & Mariana Kennedy.  Also at that conference were a few people from our church in Singapore and one woman from the Berean PRC in the Philippines.  A few members of our church had also gone to the previous BRF Conference.  The Kennedys decided to spend their vacation time this year visiting those saints in the Philippines and Singapore.

After some time in the Philippines, they spent about ten days in Singapore, staying at the home of Robert & Grace from CERC.  We visited with them there one evening, and with the others who had attended the BRF conferences.

Singing before dinner

Dr. Kennedy and Eunice Ong

With Robert and Daniel

Christine, Melina, and Mariana

Grace and Eunice playing a game with Megan

There were other times of fellowship with the people from church as well.

Badminton on a Friday night

Visiting at church

Sunday lunch

Mariana was also able to attend a women's Bible study that meets at my place.  Since several of the women arrived early, she taught a few of them how to play Upwords first!

What a beautiful expression of the communion of saints that the Kennedys were able to travel to Southeast Asia to visit those whom they had met at the BRF Conferences.  May God bless those conferences as not only is His Word taught, but these friendships in the Lord are formed; and may He bless His church throughout the world!

Visit from the Drneks (2)

Besides seeing the tourist spots of Singapore, the Drnek family got to experience some of our day-to-day life and our neighborhood.

The view to the left out our door

The view to the right out our door

Part of the wet market near our place

A Chinese funeral (Buddhist or Taoist) going on underneath our building

(This happens often here!)

Seth at one of the libraries we go to

Seth and Michelle in the grocery store

Here are also a couple of pictures Jon and Michelle took from the Singapore Flyer:

The cousins all had so much fun together.

Seth and Jason were especially excited about meeting this 

policeman in our neighborhood.  They got to wear his hat too!

Some of the kids at the zoo

Joel and Eric

Megan and Hannah

The kids played a lot of games together!

The Drneks also very much enjoyed meeting more of the members of CERC.

Lunch with Wan Teng and Serene

Dinner with Seow Thong & Jean's family

Basketball with some of the young men from church

We enjoyed an evening at a beautiful park on the coast with a couple of families from church.

Picnic supper

Meryl and Michelle

Yoon Chuan and Elias with some of the kids on the playground

There were five or six hornbills right around us throughout the evening!

We are so thankful Jon & Michelle and their family were able to come to Singapore and see our way of life here and meet many of the saints in the church.

Visit from the Drneks (1)

With Jon & Michelle Drnek's family here for almost two weeks, we were able to see many of the sights of Singapore.

Most of us at the Battlebox (WWII bunker)

Caleb got really close to a lemur and a white-faced saki monkey at the zoo.

Ryan got to be in a show at the bird park, with two toucans landing on his arms.

Jon also got to participate in the show.

The kids at Gardens by the Bay

Gardens by the Bay Supertrees, with the Singapore Flyer in the background

The Drneks by the Merlion

With too many of us to fit into one car, we spent a lot of time on public transportation!

Waiting for a bus to take us to the MRT (train) station

The Drnek kids were excited about riding a double-decker bus!

On a very empty train

A different train ride

We often tried to stand in the front of the train so the kids could look out 

the windows--although almost all you can see is a dark tunnel ahead of you. :-)

There were also new foods to try.

Wonton mee (dish on top) is a favorite of some in our family.

My husband showing Caleb how to eat with chopsticks

The Drneks were also able to renew their friendship with the Lee family, whom they had met in the U.S. a couple of years ago.

Hannah and Jael at the zoo

Jason, Jael, Hannah, Megan, and Elijah

The one-year-olds getting acquainted too :-)

Singing Psalter numbers together on a Sunday night at the Lees' house

Discussion with Fai Chong and Kong Wee

Ryan, Caleb, Elijah, and Eric at the bird park

The Lee family (Kong Wee & Dorcas, Elijah, Jael, and Noah) with Dorcas's dad, Fai Chong