Guitar-man

My guitar music folder is expanding by the day. The songs from my guitar teacher in the UK consisted mostly of 60's & 70's songs, these are being pushed to the back of my folder by a diverse collection of music. I am playing my guitar in a variety of places and so I have to make sure I take the correct music with me. A couple of weeks ago at the 'Woman's day of prayer' I was playing 'Amazing Grace' with 2 chords, because the accompanying piano was so out of tune the pianist had to avoid certain notes. Life is a little easier in the hospital chapel where most of the time I play solo, but there is a huge diverstiy of songs at the different services: at one service we use Tabernacle Hymns from the 1960's with hymns such as 'Count your blessings'; at another service we use an Arabic chorus book with songs like 'uhibbuka rabbi yasuu'; and on Sunday evenings more modern hymns and songs, including 'How great is our God'. In our adult English lesson 'Summertime' has been used to add variety to a lesson; and at school good old favourites like 'The wheels on the bus'. At the end of the week I appreicate the chance to sit down and play 'Here comes the sun', 'Blackbird' and 'Yesterday' - you still can't beat those classic Beatles songs. P

Web-links to a long weekend of meetings

After travelling down to Jerusalem on Friday we found out that our meeting at the cathedral had been cancelled. In the evening we went to the Church of the Nazarene for dinner, a communion service and a tour of their roof. As with most buildings in this part of the world the roof is flat, which allows it to be used for an aquaponics experiment: http://www.aquaponics.org.uk/information/

On Saturday we met with a couple from the UK who serve with the Chemin Neuf Community at the Ecco Homo guest house. We first met them in Nazareth where they may be helping to run a new initiave called the Mary Centre, which also has a newly grown roof garden:

http://www.eccehomoconvent.org/en/content/chemin-neuf-community

On Sunday we visited the East Jerusalem Baptist Church where the sermon was given by a Chinese pastor, he gave an interesting talk with updates from China.

On Monday we visited the Hope School, where we met Dick and Janet from one of our supporting churches in the UK, it also gave Jane the opportunity to show off her great knowledge of Arabic - shame the student didn't understand her, must be the Nazareth accent: http://www.hopeschoolbeitjala.com/

And later we visited a permaculture farm:

http://www.bustanqaraaqa.org/al3/web/page/display/id/1.html

Before returning to Nazareth on Tuesday we had another non-meeting at the Cathedral. Apart from our meetings at the beginning and end of our long-weekend we had some very productive meetings and met some great people who gave us food for thought, I hope you find some of the links interesting. P