Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Today, we got together with our Canadian friends for a lovely turkey dinner. They had a family from Australia arrive yesterday to join their team, so we let them join in.
This week-end, Centro Biblico Trujillo was celebrating their 20th anniversary. Church anniversaries are a big thing here in Peru. This year, there was a talent show on Thursday afternoon and a special thanksgiving prayer meeting in the evening. Then on Sunday, there was a pot-luck dinner and some of the winners from the talent competition performing. It was announced it was starting at 6, but while I was in the office at the church, I happened to see the program with the first thing on the list being at 6:30. Not something that would happen in Canada or Britain likely, but here it's just part of life.
Also at the end of last week, I had the experience of visiting a friend in hospital for the first time, not an experience I want to repeat too often. Ana-Melba, one of the leaders of the youth group, was pregnant but was in hospital because of a miscarriage. Please pray for her and her husband Jorge in this situation. Being in the hospital did make me very thankful for being able to go back to Britain for health care.
This week-end, Centro Biblico Trujillo was celebrating their 20th anniversary. Church anniversaries are a big thing here in Peru. This year, there was a talent show on Thursday afternoon and a special thanksgiving prayer meeting in the evening. Then on Sunday, there was a pot-luck dinner and some of the winners from the talent competition performing. It was announced it was starting at 6, but while I was in the office at the church, I happened to see the program with the first thing on the list being at 6:30. Not something that would happen in Canada or Britain likely, but here it's just part of life.
Also at the end of last week, I had the experience of visiting a friend in hospital for the first time, not an experience I want to repeat too often. Ana-Melba, one of the leaders of the youth group, was pregnant but was in hospital because of a miscarriage. Please pray for her and her husband Jorge in this situation. Being in the hospital did make me very thankful for being able to go back to Britain for health care.