The break was a lovely relaxed family time. Just a pity to see Liz so unwell. She has certainly not improved as yet with the antibiotics and she is going back to the specialist today. Please pray. Liz managed to organize as usual the Easter Saturday egg hunt with my help as she can't get around so well. That was good fun, especially for the kids as it always is. Here is the family photo just before prayers folowed by the egg hunt.
Then yesterday (Easter Sunday) we had a great day in church with the fellowship breakfast for the whole church at 8 am together with worship and a short Biblical reflection from me on Colossions 2:13-15 + 2 Timothy 1:9-10. All ended with 4 people winning Easter eggs as their names were drawn out of a hat.
In the evening we had the big Resurrection Celebration with the church packed and the service really blessed. The highlight was a special presentation of the Easter story, all done in 7 minutes, which was very impactive, bringing the story to today's context. It was very strong and emotional. Quite wonderful! The presentation involved the drama groups, the dance group with ballet (including granddaughter Alice who is quite brilliant at ballet), the deaf group signing everything and the praise and worship band. All were on stage at once and it was tremendously blessed. We also heard a sermon from Pastor Lucena (ex-Congregational pastor and now with us) and then we closed breaking bread together which I led. All this, with lots of praise and worship too in between, in one hour and forty minutes!
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