Category Archives: Friends

Trip to Manitoba!

April 7, 2015Friends, VideoMicahThe Derksens

On Monday, March 30, Mom, Heidi, Andrew and I went to Manitoba. Heidi went to visit some friends in Winnipeg, and Andrew and I wanted to go film with our friends the Klassens.

This is a snapshot of all the actors for the movie we filmed the last full day we were in MB. Can you guess what it’s about?

This snapshot is from one of the scenes- “Least I Can Do”, a script written by Timothy Klassen. As you can see, Andrew and I are the shady/bully type characters! As Mom commented, “We came all the way to Manitoba to be bullies?!”:)

Running off some energy so that the characters would be breathless in a scene!

Getting ready to film a scene from up high!

In between filming, we helped do a bit of insulating in the shop.

Here is a sneak peak at one of the action scenes!

A beautiful sunset!

This was a great way to spend Easter week, but the most important thing to remember is the gift that God gave us!

“The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.”

Luke 24: 7b

Camelback Mountain!

March 5, 2015Family, FriendsMicahThe Derksens

Monday morning, February 23rd, around 10:30 a.m. we started our ascent of one of Phoenix’s mountains with our friends the Johnson family who are doing concerts in the southern states.

By 11:30 a.m. all the boys got to the top of Echo Canyon trail.

Jesse:) The big city of Phoenix and its suburbs. It went almost as far as the eye could see on all sides!

Jesse & Andrew in front of one of the many cacti.

The two cavemen also known as the Micahs:)

The giant Cave!

The kids on the giant rock. After we finished hiking, all of us went to Chik-Fil-A for lunch, and swam for the rest of the afternoon.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Psalm 90: 2

New Years Eve Crokinole Championship!

January 29, 2015Family, FriendsMicahThe Derksens

On New Years Eve we invited our church over for a fun evening. We had a crokinole championship. Here are some of the teams:

And the winners are: Mark and Josh!

(Honorable mention goes to the runners-up: Carter and Andrew!)

At midnight we had praying, singing, and sharing time while 2015 rolled in. We also had fun skiing, skating and playing intense Dutch Blitz!

Birthday!

June 20, 2014Family, FriendsAndrewThe Derksens

On June 11, Grandpa turned 96! We had the celebration the next day.

The scrumptious meal!

Grandpa’s cake.

Grandpa’s siblings. The average age is 91!!

The Landfill Harmonic Recycled Orchestra

May 8, 2014Family, Friends, MusicMicahThe Derksens

For the last few days we billeted Favio Chavez, Daniel Allende, Fernando Maldonado, and Jose Rodriguez from the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra which is based in Cateura Paraguay. Cateura is built on a garbage dump on the outskirts of Asuncion. The people of Cateura are very poor and earn their living by selling, recycling, and using the things they find in the garbage dump. A few years ago they started making instruments out of the garbage. (In Cateura, a real instrument is worth more than a home!) Since then their orchestra has increased to many people. They now take turns traveling the world to play their instruments. Only 16 people came on this tour. Their next tour they are doing is to Madrid Spain! Here is a video of us playing our instruments with our billets.

At the concert, they had all the 500+ people sing “Amazing Grace” with them accompanying and then the director (Favio Chavez) said that this is the 1st time that we sang with garbage :).

On Monday night when they arrived, we had our friends, Hugo and Elana, over to translate for us… and eat dessert! The rest of the time we were on our own but with the few Spanish words we know from going to Mexico on missions trips, the few English words they knew, and the help of an English/Spanish dictionary (and a phone), we could make out what each other was saying. We also read out of our Espanol/English New Testament, and gave them Spanish tracts.

It was fun trying their instruments out. The materials that they make the instruments out of range from oil cans, candy tins, hairbrushes and shoes, to spoons, forks and cutting boards. Here Levi is trying the guitar.