'Do you know who you are talking to?" was the challenge at Palm Sunday's service. Mary had come all the way from Fiji, to speak from John 4 about the Samaritan woman at the well. Even one of the power-line workers, stop to listen from his cherry picker, as the rest of us crowded in together on the church's outdoor's stage.
The Easter week has also seen people back 'on deck' with some normal activities of 'life and work'. Second-hand clothes sales began under a make-shift shade. Even the fishermen returned to their shorelines.
Good Friday's service was well attended by more than 50 crowding onto the stage to hear Pastor Jim relate Easter to the Jewish Passover and the signs and times in which we live. This Easter coincided with a lunar eclipse, so a few of us took off to the Barge landing for our Saturday evening meal and some 'heavenly entertainment'. We were not disappointed.
At the break of dawn on Sunday, I found Djuluŋa preparing the grounds for the Sunday morning service. We frightened off a cluster of teenagers 'hanging out', when Djuluŋa and I greeted each other with 'Ŋayi bili walŋan! ie. 'He is risen!'. Such hope of NEW life for anyone who meets with the risen Christ. By 10am the congregation swelled to over 100, and again in the evening. People spilled out of the 'stage area' into the smaller shadey areas that are scattered beyond. There were many precious times of worship shared especially by the younger adults declaring their love and commitment to their Lord Jesus through song and dance, under a moonlit sky. The last item finished just on 1am!
The Easter week has also seen people back 'on deck' with some normal activities of 'life and work'. Second-hand clothes sales began under a make-shift shade. Even the fishermen returned to their shorelines.
Good Friday's service was well attended by more than 50 crowding onto the stage to hear Pastor Jim relate Easter to the Jewish Passover and the signs and times in which we live. This Easter coincided with a lunar eclipse, so a few of us took off to the Barge landing for our Saturday evening meal and some 'heavenly entertainment'. We were not disappointed.
At the break of dawn on Sunday, I found Djuluŋa preparing the grounds for the Sunday morning service. We frightened off a cluster of teenagers 'hanging out', when Djuluŋa and I greeted each other with 'Ŋayi bili walŋan! ie. 'He is risen!'. Such hope of NEW life for anyone who meets with the risen Christ. By 10am the congregation swelled to over 100, and again in the evening. People spilled out of the 'stage area' into the smaller shadey areas that are scattered beyond. There were many precious times of worship shared especially by the younger adults declaring their love and commitment to their Lord Jesus through song and dance, under a moonlit sky. The last item finished just on 1am!
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