Rose Wedding 6/23/07

Yes, Jeremy and Vanessa were married last night and it was a fun/wonderful service. His brother Josh did the service. Here we are with the couple at the reception dinner.

First Nations Church in Sante Fe, Ca

On Saturday we drove to Hemet, CA (about 2 hours south) to spend some of Father's Day weekend with Stan Shaw, Dan's 90 year young Dad. We had a great time.
Georgia visited the FNC on Sunday evening with two of the guys from the Tennessee cohort. Last summer we met Cheryl Bear (Carrier Indian from BC) and have been going to visit their church for almost a year now. Finally made it!
Cheryl and her husband Randy pastor the church and it was wonderful to see how they have contextualized the "Indian" way into their gathering.

Tennessee Cohort came to dinner!

Yes, the guys came and it was a great time. Dan was teaching that group last year in Tennessee when I fell and damaged my cheek bones. It was great to meet the guys who prayed Dan through that difficult time of not knowing what was happening to me.
Isn't the Lord good! As you can see we had a great time.

Graduation weekend is over!

Well, five parties later graduation is over and we are moving on to the next big event: the Tennessee Cohort arrived this week and are coming for dinner tonight.
Here is a group of photos from the graduation. There were 35 doctoral students graduated from SIS (School of Intercultural Studies) and Georgia edited the dissertation for 11 of them.

2007 Fuller Graduates

Yesterday was the "hooding" for doctoral students at Fuller and the School of Intercultural Studies (SIS) hooded 35 students. This photo is Dan with 3 of his students covering the globe from the Philippines, to Thailand to Brazil/Japan. It was so exciting to be there and watch each one kneel, receive their hood and be prayed for by their personal mentor.

Ashley's voice recital

Last night Dan and I attended Ashley's recital at a great place called Cafe 322 in Sierra Madre - the owners are long time Italian opera singers and their granddaughter was in the recital with Ash. Six young women sang and after we had a wonderful Italian meal with Rachel, David and Colleen and Eddie and Rene Gibbs (Rachel's folks). That is Ashley's voice teacher on the right looking so pleased and proud. Then the fun began as the place filled with "old timers" who took turns singing! Just like you see in the movies, we all sang along when we knew the words! Thanks David and Rachel for a wonderful celebration.

Rick and Suzanne at home with girls

Yes, this is Rick and Suzanne's back yard , a gorgeous spot to match this gorgeous family. Stephanie will graduate from 8th grade in June and has chosen Maranatha as her high school.

Visitors from British Columbia

The door bell rang about 10 at night and here was a family from Kuper Island, BC come to visit! I've known Guy Jack since 1974 and now he and Pam have a son and 4 adopted kids. What a joy to have them stay over night to get rest for their return trip to Canada the next day (they were in San Francisco for a family part and just drove on down to see us)!

Their son Cordell looks just like Guy at that age.

Rob, Susie and Lauren in Indianapolis

We arrived home to a wonderful e-mail from Rob with photos of 10 month old Lauren. Isn't she precious.

Rob is a pilot with Southwest Air and is due for shoulder surgery soon to correct damage received in a fall last February.

Dan loves Arizona

Here are some historical spots that Dan holds dear from years when he was learning anthropology;

Casa Grande (yes, they built a roof over it to help perserve the structure.

Famous church built by Fr. Kino, San Xavier, on the Tohono O'odham Reservation (formerly called Papago) --he was disappointed they were working on the structure.

In the desert scene you can see a trail wander out into the desert with Baboquiv Ari Peak in the background, Dan climbed that in 1967, elivation is 7,734 feet.

Indian hospital at Sells, AZ where he did research to tell the gov. why the people weren't using the hospital--Dan told them to put a medicine man in the lobby and people would come--and sure enough they came!

Church at Ajo, but the mine has closed so the place was nearly deserted.

More from Arizona

The desert was gorgeous, mountains, cactus and even de Grazias' Gallery of the Sun in Tucson.

We had lunch with Dan's long time friend Elaine Wermschmidt in Tucson.

Arizona trip April '07

It was a whirlwind trip packed full of great events.

We stayed a couple of days with Richard and Kristi Perona (Karen's younger brother) in Tuscon.

Here is a photo of Dan's sister and her husband, Joanie and Jess Tyler, at thei\ home they are building in Cottonwood, AZ

It rains in southern California

This spring the flowers in our yard have been so beautiful. On Good Friday I took this photo of the pink camelia in the front of the house. The rain drops look like sparkling jewels. And the azaleas are a riot of color, too.

Easter weekend 2007

Easter morning we attended our home church, Lake Avenue Congregational with full orchestra and choir to sing Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, wonderful!

Blessed resurrection weekend! On Saturday we attended the service at the Messianic Jewish Synagogue Ahavat Zion in Beverly Hills. Our friend Stuart Dauermann is the Rabbi there. In the photo Stuart is holding the matza. It was a wonderful service and a new experience for both Dan and Georgia on Easter--a very cultural experience.

Visit to Virginia March '07

Here we are: back row from left is Dan, Georgia, Julie, Al, and Scott.
Front row from left is Missie, Alexander, Susie holding Katie and then Allie.
We had a great time in Julie and Al's home and even got to hear music from the family and Allie sing a few songs she has written.

Dan receives 25 year award at Fuller

April 5, 2007 Dan received his 25 year pin at Fuller, pictured with President Rich Mouw, Sherwood Lingenfelter and Chuck Van Engen. The theme was "Walking with the Light of the World".

Dan takes the podium at Christ Church

While in the Washington DC area we visited some big new airplane museum near Dulles airport. Here is Dan with the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the A-bomb) and also with the Enterprise--can you see him at the bottom looking up?

So, we went to the east coast and got to do some sight seeing while Dan taught in 4 different Perspective courses.

Yes, that is Georgia trying to get Roosevelt to smile for the camera.

There's Dan as he climbed to the pulpit in the church where George Washington attended. It is made in the shape of a wine glass!

And then here we are at Jamestown with the John Smith statue -- this is the 400th anniversary for the Jamestown settlement. Both Dan and Georgia are interested in archeaology and the team had just started digging again at this site. The workers talked with us and showed us stuff they had dug up that day, fantastic.

Actually Dan's family "Stanley" landed at Jamestown in 1623 and 1624 so it was fun checking it out!

Julia's cheer team wins National Championship

Spending time with Stephanie and Julia here in Pasadena is great. They are wonderful girls and growing into beautiful ladies. Steph is 13 and Julia is 10. Yes, Julia has a kitten, too.

In March we got to watch Julia and her cheer team compete in Pasadena, that's her in the center-top of the photo.

Ryan and Kelly take Noah off to bear the message!

Mou shows Noah all about the spa on Ryan and Kelly's recent visit to California

Grandpa Shaw is 90 Years Young!

In February we celebrated Stan Shaw's 90 birthday with family and friends in Hemet, California. Here is most of the family, minus Joanie's two and Rob with Susie and Lauren. It was a wonderful celebration.