No 8am breakfast today but a far more leisurely pace, a help yourself style buffet breakfast (ending at 10am) which would obviously mean me rocking up at 9.55 for a bowl of cereal & a bit of toast in the hand for the bus. And here ends the lazy sunday morning....
Packed lunches in hand, cool boxes packed & all dressed in our sunday finest we were confronted with ..... a flat tyre. Rats.
Thankfully I am not a man & therefore do not need to pretend to know about these things, so all the ladies jumped into 2 cabs and left the menfolk to kick tyres and strain muscles (it's what they wanted).
Once we got to church (slightly late) we realised it was starting late (felt just like holywood baptist) as the power was off. That wasn't to stop us though, and the worship group fired on ahead. There really is something remarkable about people from different cultures, who speak different languages all coming together and worshipping God. We sang a song which was originally in English but translated into Albanian. The room was filled with a cacophony of sound but a beautiful one - and you couldn't help but be reminded of the verse in Revelation about every tribe & every tongue worshipping together in Heaven.
A lazy afternoon was spent in the park (well, for most of us - Tim went off to play football and lost half his body weight in sweat but showed the Kosovan men how to tackle proper - like).
The next few days will be different from the last week: football camp with guys, craft & sports with teen girls in the morning. Then the afternoon we will visit a town about an hour away where a new ministry is hoping to start and spend our time praying around the town & maybe getting some kids games on the go.
PRAYER POINTS FOR INCOMING WEEK:
- safety in travel, we will be covering more miles this week on the road so please pray for protection & no more flat tyres or vehicle trouble.
- for wisdom as we prepare talks with the older guys & girls. There is a limit on what we can say, which can be frustrating but pray that God will use what is said & how we interact to speak to everyone there.
- if it were to cool down a few degrees no-one would complain, particularly given the more active nature of this week.
- an injury free football camp
- give thanks for the young people in the church who have been helping us this week
- for the time spent in the new town, that we will be a positive presence and not a negative one. That we draw attention to ourselves for the right reasons!
Hutch.
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