Pyramids, Grease and General Madness!

Well we seem to have finally hit the ground after a mad and hectic few weeks.

Holiday club last week - that'll be the Pyramid bit of the title. Pyramid Rock and we did. All a bit crazy with me the big, fat, pregnant one heading it from the front - must say I did rather savoured napping with Beth when we got home! Really enjoyed it - despite it being mad and a bit disorganised, for me was overwhelmed by the number of helpers (some from PVC and others simply bonkers!) at least 55 over the week (most doing every day) not a bad ratio to our 105 kids!! Will add some pics when I remember to get them!


Then the renowned Party on Potton biannual extravaganza, a four day event with various evening entertainment - Grease Night, Big Band, Family Disco and the stupidly popular Stars in their Eyes (Potton Style!), plus family stuff going on in the day including the Carnival, Potton Olympics, dog show (with my favourite category being 'most treats eaten - dog and owner') etc, etc. Needless to say we had a fab time - proper family stuff and to top it all off our float won first prise in the Carnival!

Ema's Fav Websites

Been looking around at others folks blogs' (well that is the point surely!!) and am stuck by how much they write, where as we just do pics it seems (must be confirmation of my visual learning/need for visual imagaing to do/remember anything and how I have drummed it into Will over the past 7 years!!) Anyway thought it would be a good place to post some of my favourite websites at present (I know you can do this as snazzy links but this just seems easier somehow !!)



Loving this site - fair trade, recycle and from the Philippines (memories of summer 2002) web address www.doybags.com



And this is fab too www.cardsfromafrica.com
Both shopping, but hey, well spent cash in my humble opinion.

Just caught up with Will's whistle stop tour of our life - phew!!
Thought you might like this Judith . . . and after all we all look so drop dead gorgeous!! Seems like ages ago - scary stuff

Special request for Beth monkey photo!!

Catch up! The Makower headlines 1999-2006

A new model of discipleship/leadership training
Grounded in reality by working part-time
Providing experiential learning
With a heart for their community and the world

Hello blogworld!

Just thought you might like to see the Makower headlines (as told from the Will perspective, by no means comprehensive) to fill in some blanks where applicable:

August 1999: Will & Ema tie the knot

September 1999: Ema starts her first teaching job at Barnabas Oley Primary School (http://www.barnabasoley.cambs.sch.uk/)

August 2001: Our first New Wine a crucial one as Will goes to seminar by Mal Calladine doing a case study of St Tom's, which plants a seed...Mission trip to Ecuador ends up with Ema wanting to move to South America!...Will's band 'Makower' call it a day after 3 years of nearly but not quites and much soul searching

December 2001: Will's worship CD 'Spirit Flow' produced in association with Listen-in Ltd (http://www.listen-in.com) gets finished

August 2002: Ema's mad emigration plans kept in check by her Phillipines mission trip...God's 'compromise deal' on mission involves moving to Sheffield to do the course formerly known as 'Tribal Training' at St Tom's (now known as 'Form')...a rare moment of Will and Ema hearts and minds in total unison!

August 2003: Next big leap into the great unknown involves rooting ourselves into Potton Vineyard Church in Bedfordshire, and, after some tricky transition time, actually moving to Potton itself in December of the same year!

January 2004: Will starts to get involved in the music worship team at PVC

March 2004: Will starts at Derek Prince Ministries (http://www.dpmuk.org) in what would turn out to be his longest stint to date in a 'proper' job!

April 2004: Ema goes on maternity leave

May 2004: Bethan Abbie Makower bursts into the world, and the world's still recovering!

July 2004: Jim & LIz Burke come full circle - Having become christians through the work of the church, they now take up the challenge of pastoring it...Pete and Carol Crouch (the founders of PVC) move on to plant another church in Ipswich

October 2004: Ema returns to work and Beth starts at nursery 3 days a week

November 2004: Beth gets dedicated

July 2005: Will & Ema get asked to join 'GNR8', the pastors' steering group

September 2005: Will & Ema start a house group called 'Acts 2' along with another couple at PVC, with the vision to aim for shared lives a la Acts 2!

January 2006: The Makowers discover there's another family addition the way, due 21st October!

And that's the edited highlights so far...as for the future watch this space!

Thought some of you might fancy being reminded of days gone by - check out our homepage http://homepage.ntlworld.com/themakowers/index.htm for some reason I can no longer access it - hence it being a bit of a time capsule.

Finally... managed to sort it!! Actually very easy when the computer is playing!

Did look for one of all three of us (*), but alas to no avail.

* Yes to those of you who don't know I am looking rather large in the picture - baby number 2 due 21st October. Don't know wherether it's a boy or girl, just hoping it is a bit more laid back than hyper, bonkers mad (but fantastic) Beth!

PS can anybody guess the exotic location of Beth's picture??

After being very sceptical of this whole thing - after all who would want to read all about our 'interesting life', I spent a good hour (or more!) reading everybody else's (that we've even met in our lives ever!) and it was jolly interesting :-) I have to say the whole picture thing appeals to me the most - being a visual person, so hopefully I'll sort out how to add photos ASAP

(just realised spell check is in American - can I change this??)

(PS added photo sept time - needed it for our profile)