Jenness Park

I knew Jenness Park is open to whoever wants to rent it, whether it is one person, a family or a church group.  Last week end I heard so many stories of families that had taken the opportunity this place has to offer.
While I was there for the Ministers’ Wives Retreat I saw all the wonderful improvements they have [...]

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Friday – The Day Before Graduation

The day before graduation, Jane Ellis (First Lady of CBU), got some of us (trustees’ spouses) together and we went to the Univeristy of California, Riverside Botanic Gardens.  It was a beautiful overcast day.  
   
Lilacs and Iris.  Never seen a Lilac Plant before until Friday, the plant had a cluster of flowers and the scent was [...]

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California Southern Baptist Convention Meeting 2008 Is Over

Convention and Pre Convention Photos – It is over until next year in Riverside, California at California Baptist University.  See you there.

Left to Right – (1) Johnny Hunt  (2) Johnny Hall  (3) Jeff Iorg  (4) Paul Wilkerson  (5) Vi Estel  (6) Fermin A. Whittaker  (7) Walter Price  (8) Paul Wilkerson & Martin Leach  (9) Johnny [...]

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Executive Director’s Message

My husband preached Tuesday night.  It was an amazing sermon.  Noise, there is noise everywhere, and people are not focused because we are listening to the noise around us.  We are afraid, angry, confused.  We listened to a lot of lies about both presidential candidate.  I received e-mails that said “this person worked with this person, [...]

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Ministers’ Wives Luncheon 2008

Tuesday afternoon we had our yearly Ministers’ Wives Luncheon.  I started having this luncheon soon after we arrived in California.  Most of the time we have a speaker talk to us and this year we had Cindi McMenamin.  Cindi talked to us about “Our Incredible Calling”.  She is a pastor’s wife, an award winning writer and [...]

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Hispanic Celebration in San Diego

What a night!  A large number of California Southern Baptist hispanics met at Shadow Mountain Community Church on Sunday night and had a big celebration.   The “Rondalla ‘Voceros de Cristo’” sang, I had not heard that type of music in a long, long time, it bought back memories of when I was young and [...]

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Who Surprised Who?

My husband had just left the hotel room, 5 minutes later I got a phone call from the front desk saying “We just wanted to make sure you were there, there is a surprise for you”  I said “Give me 5 minutes”  Five minutes later there is someone at the door knocking, I opened the door and [...]

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California Southern Baptist Convention

 
As you have notice.  This week I’m in San Diego attending The California Southern Baptist Convention.  The convention meets for two day, Tuesday and Wednesday, but for us, the activities started last Friday.

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I Love San Diego

Feel sorry for me.  I’ll be in San Diego for the next few days.  San Diego is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.  The weather is almost perfect most of the year and this week is no exception and to top things off my son Eddie and his beautiful wife Katie live [...]

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