{"id":1692,"date":"2006-10-10T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/10\/10\/a-busy-weekend\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T15:49:00","slug":"a-busy-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/10\/10\/a-busy-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Busy Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/568\/1889\/1600\/TEC_Logo_Pin-Burnt_Orange-no_outline.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/568\/1889\/200\/TEC_Logo_Pin-Burnt_Orange-no_outline.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On Saturday night, Orin and I traveled to South St. Louis to provide entertainment for the TEC Founder&#8217;s Dinner. In the St. Louis-area there used to be three TEC centers. They have now combined into one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlouistec.org\/\">Spirit of St. Louis TEC<\/a>. This dinner was one of their first activities as a newly formed center. For the event, they brought in the founders of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tecconference.org\/about.htm\">National Teens Encounter Christ (TEC) Movement<\/a>, Fr. Matt Fedewa and Dorothy Gerke, to give talks. It was a fun and inspirational night. Thanks to Ron Reiter and the TEC staff for inviting us in.<\/p>\n<div>Sunday morning brought Noah&#8217;s Baptism. Orin and I led music at Mass.  The sacrament was administered during Mass (which we loved) and everything went very well. Madeleine, however, provided some comic relief. I was holding her during the Baptism, itself. After Dan (my father-in-law who is a Deacon) poured water on Noah&#8217;s head, Madeleine threw her hands up in the air and said &#8220;Noah&#8230;CLEAN!&#8221;  This is something she says when she is done with her bath. It was very funny, but also theologically profound.  Orin  and his wife Erin were proud Godparents.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>We rounded out the weekend by celebrating Madeleine&#8217;s birthday last night. Her actual birthday is on Monday, October 16th, but we needed to take advantage of the fact that Erin&#8217;s family was in town. The party was a lot of fun. We decided to do a lot of things that Madeleine likes, so the house was filled with <em>Cinderella <\/em>decorations and balloons, and we ate the things Madeleine really likes. Our party food included: Pizza, McDonalds french fries, rice, manderin oranges, chips and vegetables with &#8220;dip, dip, dip!&#8221; and cupcakes.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>It proved to be a crazy, but a very blessed weekend. For more on the family, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/cerneka.blogspot.com\/\">cerneka.blogspot.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>-Shannon<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">On Saturday night, Orin and I traveled to South St. Louis to provide entertainment for the TEC Founder&#8217;s Dinner. In the St. Louis-area there used to be three TEC centers. They have now combined into one: Spirit of St. Louis TEC. This dinner was one of their first activities as a newly formed center. For&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/10\/10\/a-busy-weekend\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}