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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

latte addiction

Here is a picture from our bible conference week: pictured are full-time trainee (bible college student)Lisa from Texas, Louise from Ca, me, and Jill from Texas. We are at Starbucks, where we nursed and encouraged a very sad latte addiction.

Each day the conference begins at 4pm, you have to be in your seat at that time. We get our dinner break from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Almost everyone will bring their own dinner, or you can buy one there...the dinner break is really a perfect time span to eat your dinner, look for and visit friends from out of state or out of the country, maybe visit the bookstore and use the facilities.

Somehow...how do these things really get started? Somehow, we began a tradition, these girlfriends and I, of jumping into my van and running down to starbucks, eating our dinner there and bringing back something good, warm, and full of caffeine. I do not drink coffee, usually at starbucks I will get a chai latte-but this week my indulgance of choice was a maple machiatto. Oh, sweet-heavenly yum! Long meeting? Not a problem here my friends! I was buzzing in my seat!

The last day of conference, the meetings each evening had gotten progressively longer and over-time, so at dinner they announced they were cutting dinner hour to end at 7pm so as to be able to cover everything they wanted to share with us. Now, we barely fit our nightly caffeine run comfortably into the dinner break-so after shaving off a half-hour...did we give up our starbuck's run? That would be a no. A sorry, pathetic, latte-addicted -no. We raced over, got our cup of comfort and went back. Made it to our seats barely in time. And had to eat our lunches there while everyone sang.
But, it was so worth it.

posted at 10:09 PM
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7 Comments:

At 7:14 AM, Anonymous said...: Ya, I'd be doing that too! Last conference I was at there was no Starbuck's in the stadium but the line up to Tim Horton's was always a mile long. Nobody left the site because you had to pay parking again to get back in the lot, so you can imagine the lineup! Did that discourage me, nope.
At 9:02 AM, Anonymous said...: I kinda got hooked on peppermint latte's during the holidays! :)
At 11:27 AM, At A Hen's Pace said...: You'll share that common latte-bond for years and years to come!

;)

Jeanne
At 6:32 PM, Anonymous said...: I love going to conferences with girlfriends, even better with a Starbucks close. If you don't mind sharing, what type of Bible conference? Did you enjoy it?
At 7:43 PM, Hen Jen said...: Kelly,

the bible conference is one our church does twice a year, in the summer and in the winter. Each one is a different topic. This winter the topic was The gospel of Mark. It was awesome, I hope to share some thoughts from my notes when I get a chance, things have been so crazy here lately. We have only been meeting with this church for about 4 years, and I have only been to maybe 5 conferences. It is very intense and challenging, but I walk away with such a love for God's word and such a determination to stay steeped daily in the Bible. The conference is actually put on by Living Stream ministry, and church's from all over attend. We are lucky to live nearby the conference site and get to host people from out of town.
blessings, glad you asked!
Jenny
At 9:17 AM, Anonymous said...: I'm right there with ya, Jenny. One of my favorite mugs is my "Well-Caffeinated Mind" mug I ordered from Peace Hill Press a couple of years ago. Sort of sums up how I function most days... ;)
At 9:49 AM, Hen Jen said...: cyndi,

I love that mug! Very cool. That is how I function most mornings, tho I have a diet coke. Less caffeine I think, which is why I was buzzing in my seat after the machiatto!

thanks for commenting!

Jenny

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