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LITTLE NOAH

There is a little boy by the name of Noah who is five years old and in the last stages of NeuroBlastoma Cancer. He only has a short time left. His family will be celebrating Christmas next week. All the little boy asked for is to get lots of Christmas cards. Please help rock this little boy's world. Noah Biorkman 1141 Fountain View Circle South Lyon, MI 48178 USA

I got this message from one of my friends on Face Book.
This is the card I made for little Noah. God Be with him.

GREEN POINT STATIUM

The lights turned on at The Cape Town Stadium.
I was wondering what Eskom thought when they saw this !!!!! LOL.

NELSON MANDELA BAY, STATIUM

The white sail-like roof, the sort a yacht would have, is the most distinctive element of the stadium that will keep at by the notorious elements of the "Windy City"
With the North End Lake as its soothing backdrop, Nelson Mandela Bay was the first of the new venues to be completed, construction taking only 26 months.
It has already hosted a British & Irish Lions tour match and in 2010 it will be the setting for five group matches, one last - 16 game and a quarterfinal.

Sunday Times - 25 Oct. 2009

SCHOENMAKERSKOP

It is a amazing the courage and perseverance our fore fathers had.

PORT ELIZABETH

Jumbo and Doris Wedding 2 Feb 1946 I am the little Flower Girl.

Jumbo, Doris and me.
The reason we come to Port Elizabeth is
to visit with my Uncle and Aunt, Jumbo is
my late Dad's brother.
Doris is 92 and Jumbo is 91, wonderful that
they are both together.
God Bless them.

PINCHUSION PROTEA

We are leaving the Cape Peninsular tomorrow, had a great time, met up with our friends. We leave with sad hearts because one of our oldest and dearest friends is very sick, and we are not close enough to pop in and give him our love and kisses. He has our prayers and thoughts.
May God be with with our Darling.

While we were in Fishhoek we stayed at a place on the bay, overlooking the beach, a very good spot for watching whales. Nautilus Lodge.

http://www.nautiluslodge.co.za/

FRANSCHHOEK - VISITING FRIENDS.

This is where our friends Jim and Gundi Caulkin live, in this beautiful valley of Franschhoek, I think they chose well for their happy retirement. We come and visit with them about every year, we this happy bunch here, join together in the Cape for a few meals and a great many drinks, a lot of laughing and happiness, all of us are friends for many many years. Tony is taking the photo and little me is sitting trying to hide behind my hands in the orange shirt.

FRANSCHHOEK

Nestled between towering mountains in the beautiful Cape winelands lies the magnificent Franschhoek Valley. This is the food and wine heartland of the country, where splendid wines are grown and our top chefs create international cuisine.

Breath-taking scenery, warm hospitality, world class cuisine and the finest wines. This is the beautiful Franschhoek Valley in the heart of the Cape Winelands.

Spectacular vineyards cover these mountain slopes settled more than 300 years ago by the Huguenots, who brought with them their age-old French wine and food culture. This is a valley rich in history centered around a picturesque village of friendly, welcoming people.

The wonderful spectrum of accommodation for visitors ranges from internationally renowned auberges and guest houses to self-catering cottages on wine farms and much more besides.

In the village you will find wonderful crafts, art and antique shops and galleries. The main street is lined with coffee shops and restaurants. Only 45 minutes from Cape Town - come and enjoy the gourmet capital of South Africa. Let Franschhoek be your base while you explore this exceptionally beautiful region.

http://www.franschhoek.org.za

CAMPS BAY

From Blues Restaurant, very good, well worth a visit. Watching the world go by.
What a life, having a wonderful meal nice bottle of wine, with the one you love, in Gods own country. There may be a few hiccups here, but with all pulling together I am sure we will make it work very well in the future. Come home all you SA's who have left us.
All of you coming to the World Cup next year, we welcome you and know you are going to have a wonderful time, there is so much to do and enjoy here.

GREEN POINT STATIUM

The stadium will contain 68,000 seats for the World Cup. 55,000 Seats will remain permanent and 15,000 modular seats will be re-used in the deconstruction of the existing Green Point Stadium and other social investment opportunities, leaving opportunities for corporate suites to be retrofitted.

The stadium architecture focuses on the exterior appearance as well as on the user experience for the visitor once inside the stadium bowl. The exterior appearance is largely defined by a sweeping silhouette, not to be in competition with the horizontal datum line of Table Mountain, and the façade, made of a stretched fibre-glass mesh and designed as an articulated surface that makes the building appear almost scaleless.

The roof is designed as suspended roof plane. It focuses attention downwards onto the playing field. At the same time, the underside of the roof surface, hovering above the spectators, operates in a way similar to the façade. The translucent mesh skin under the steel cable and truss structure will act as a luminous disc during days of sunlight and will transmit the colour and atmosphere of the day into the stadium interior. The double skin design of the roof further makes it possible to accommodate (unsightly) services therein and, for example, avoid the use of pylons for the floodlighting. It fulfils an important function as far as noise attenuation is concerned. The roof structure is designed as an acoustic “body” with its own internal volume. The principle of utilising the air space inside the body of the roof as a noise buffer is one of the compelling simple and active design principles applied to the stadium. The key to this principle is the requirement that the “inner” (lower) and “outer” (upper) surface of the roof structure must have different densities and therefore display different acoustic performance characteristics.

The current design foresees and ETFE (fibreglass-like) cloth membrane, which is partly permeable. This “breathing” softer inner skin disperses sound waves and, since it is not a hard surface, absorbs sound into the body of the roof. The outer (top) skin is currently designed and budgeted as a fixed glass skin, which provides a hard resonant surface which reflects sound waves back into the body of the roof. Through the sloping surface of the roof, sound waves are diffracted back against the soft inner skin membrane, where they are further dispersed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Point_Stadium

SIMONSTOWN

Simonstown is a quintessentially English seaside town with intricate Victorian wrought-iron balustrades and the flag-flying British Hotel dominating the main street. Enticing alleyways lead up to whitewashed houses on the hillside, which overlooks a charming waterfront complex and the False Bay Yacht Club alongside extensive Navy buildings.

A visit to the rare African Penguin colony at Boulders Beach, a couple of kilometres out of Simonstown, should not be missed.

During whale season (July to September) it would be virtually impossible not to see an enormous southern right whale cruising along the coast next to you.

In 1814 the English colonial governors of the Cape turned Simonstown into a Naval Base and it has remained one ever since. In 1940, when the sailors' favourite Great Dane dog created a nuisance of himself on the trains, a request was sent to the British parliament asking for him to be enlisted in the Navy. Permission was granted and the dog was brought to the Recruiting Officer, who inquired: "Name?"
"Nuisance, Sir", the sailor replied.
"First name?"
"Just Nuisance, Sir," the sailor stated.
Able Seaman Just Nuisance was the only dog ever to hold rank in the Royal Navy and he became a legend in his own lifetime. He died prematurely after a boisterous leap from a moving vehicle but is immortalised in the life-sized statue in Simonstown's Jubilee Square.

http://www.go2africa.com/south-africa/cape-town/simons-town

CAPE TOWN

Tony and I are in Cape Town, we came down for a week left on the 8 Oct 09, staying in Fishhoek, it is lovely down here, will show you a few photos. Hope you enjoy them, and thanks for visiting.

These pics were taken on the Atlantic ocean side of the mountain. Fishhoek is on False Bay, which is the Indian Ocean side of the mountain. The two oceans meet at Cape Point.

HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

Jesus said. "If you hold to my teachings, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:31-32

In ancient Britain and Ireland the festival of Samhain, the lord of death, was observed on October 31. It was Druidical belief that at this time the lord of death called together the wicked spirits that within the past 12 months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals. It was believed that the spirits of the dead returned to their original homes, there to be entertained with food. If food and shelter were not provided, the evil spirits would cast spells and cause havoc toward those failing to fulfill their requests. Sacrifices were offered to the spirits of the dead. Halloween was thought to be the most favorable time for divination's and was a day on which the help of Satan was invoked for such purposes.

Halloween antedates Christianity by many years and was introduced into the Christian world hundreds of years after the death of apostles. Ever since the time of Constantine, who made Catholicism the state religion, the Roman Emperors realized the importance of having a unified empire. The civil and religious leaders saw how important it was for the sake of unity to allow only one religion within the Roman realm. It became state policy to force all non-Christian to accept the orthodox faith. The conquered pagans had an influence on the affairs of the church as they brought with them many of their practices and celebrations. Halloween was one of them. The pagans were fervent in clinging to their ceremonies and observed them openly, yet they were supposed to have been converted to Christianity.

HISTORY OF OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

COSTUMES
The Druids believed that by wearing masks and costumes, they would confuse the spirits into thinking they were one of them and they would be left alone.

BLACK CATS
Black cats hold a high significance to witches and Satanists. The black cat they believe has special powers. To them they believe the black cat represents incarnated humans, malevolent spirits. This is why many black cats are in danger around Halloween. Local SPCA's won't let anyone adopt a black cat around Halloween, for fear the cat might be harmed.

"TRICK OR TREAT"
On the night of the festival of death, the Druids of old go from home to home demanding food. If the people comply they pass on in silence. If their demands are not met, the people and their home are cursed with trouble, sickness and death.

It is not meant to be implied that the wearing of costumes or black cats are evil, but we need to be aware of what they symbolize in the context of Halloween.
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you." James 4:7-8

CHRIST IS NOT HONOURED BY CELEBRATING HALLOWEEN
"Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them." Ephesians 5:11
Halloween is harmful because it lures people into the occult. People who would not ever involve themselves with the occult at any other time will experiment at Halloween parties and seances, Ouija boards and rituals. It is well known that Halloween is one of the most active days of evil and the meeting of satanists and witches- it is the most important day in their calendar when human sacrifices are offered.

You may ask: "what is the difference between Christmas which also has pagan roots and is not the actual day of Jesus birth and Halloween?" Even though we have a problem with the secularization and materialism of Christmas, Christmas is a time of giving and the season of peace and joy. Halloween on the other hand is macabre and based on fear. Think of all the horror movies linked to Halloween (popular viewing fare at Halloween parties).

"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit of Life set me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:1-2

Extract from an article by Richard D. Dover
http://www.inhisstepsministries.org.

This article was submitted by Lesly Wood in our Church Newsletter.