The good is that our service on Sunday night was really good despite numbers being down owing to the rain. We have now had about 10 and one third inches but none yesterday and no signs today, so perhaps we will have a break from the rain for a bit.
I took lots of lovely green photos at Green Pastures yesterday morning. We are busy preparing for the Carnival Camp which starts a week on Saturday (Feb. 6th).
A very complex incident happened in the Patos 1st Baptist Church at the funeral of a mother I guess in her 40s who had a stroke. She was a Catholic but her husband an evangelical. He decided to hold the wake and the funeral service in his church and all was well until the funeral service when her priest requested to do some sort of committal proceeding during the service and was turned down by the pastor. Catholics on social media exagerated the incident and started spreading that the priest had been kicked out of the Baptist church and lots of very un-Christian comments were made about the pastor and evangelical Christians in general. The whole incident and subsequent comments on social media created an extremely volatile and unpleasant climate in Patos so we pray that things will calm down now that the priest is said to have said in a mass that the story of him being kicked out is not true.
I am now preparing for this week's Bible Study, a little service for a couple getting engaged on Saturday, and my Sunday sermon too.
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