It's hard to believe the first week is up.
On Friday the 13th Jon drove up to Auckland to drop of a trailer load stuff to be freighted to Vanuatu and then at around 3:30pm we all left Tauranga heading south with no real plans about what or where we would stay that night.
At about 7pm we were having dinner half way down the north island, and we decided to drive all the way to the ferry and arrive in Blenheim by about 5:30AM.
We spent Saturday resting and sorting things for the following week.
Sunday 15: Jon spoke at St. Andrews Pressie church.
Tuesday 17: Jon meet with leaders of a church about sending work parties to Vanuatu.
Sunday 22: Jon spoke at St. Ninian’s Pressie church.
During the time in Blenheim week we have visiting family, continued sorting and preparing to leave.Thursday we went down the Marlborough Sounds. The kids all had a go at wake boarding or knee boarding.
We borrowed a couple of old motor bikes and the boys have had a great time hooning around their grandfathers small farm.
We are ready to go. On Wednesday we arrive in Port Vila where Roy Pearson has arranged a week of language learning.
To have a look at some photos of Talua go to the following websites.
http://www.users.tpg.com.au/gconnor/talua
http://homepage.mac.com/wrconley/PhotoAlbum2.html
About Me
- Jon and Vivienne Parkes
- we - the parkes family used to live in blenheim - dairy farming a few hundred cows. then back in '97 went to the bible college of new zealand, after completing a BMin we moved to dunedin for two years where jon did a DipMin, then four years in tauranga where jon was a rev at st. columba, otumoetai. in 06 & 07 we lived in vanuatu on santo island where jon taught english and was the accountant for talua ministry training centre. in 08 we moved to richmond, nelson where jon was the minister at st. david’s presbyterian church on florence st. and now is the minister at whakatu presbyterian (a new presbyterian church for the nelson & districts area) and vivienne volunteers as an ambulance officer (EMT) for st. john. at the same time we have 1500 blueberry plants, cookie & zoro our cats, red our calf and gypsy our border collie - plus some laying hens.
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