Saturday, May 31, 2008

Second Worship service

Friday was spent relaxing around the house (details on our accomodations will come later). Kevin worked on the slides for the upcoming service at the church and Todd and I hung out with our new best buddy, a local North African man who has been with us most of the week. He plays guitar, so we spent most of the afternoon taping him as he played some great music for us. For security reasons I can't give much details on his story or life, but he is the real deal.
The main friend picked us up for the worship service and on the way, he enlightened us on how things work here- you have to be very flexible to survive. It seems that a communication error had another church group using the courtyard and sound equipment, and the workers who were supposed to have the main part of the building renovated and cleaned up hadn't quite finished their job... so we just adapted and had the worship service in the small P room. About 25 people besides us, crammed in this little room and we had CHURCH! It was an incredible experience- some of the youth from the night before joined us as well as some others from Canada, England and a few other countries sang and worshiped as we had to play above the French Gospel Choir amplified rehearsal out in the courtyard. Kevin's planning kinda went out the window, as we had no slides or anything, and he just led from the spirit. I think we may have played a few songs on his original set list, but the rest was totally improvised. It was so great to have that freedom... more later.

2 comments:

The Floyd said...

hay dad I Read that you worshiped for a second time. love.kaleigh

Anonymous said...

I think what you guys are doing is great. Keep up the good work, keep posting, and take lots of pictures.