We praise God for a really blessed Watch Night service last night which started at 10 pm and finished at 12.30 am. Numbers were down (owing to blessed rain! Two inches in Patos! and many away) but blessing was up! The watch night services can be too bubbly and euphoric but last night's was really spiritual.
The service had the old church band back together from 25/30 years ago which was excellent. As I said last night - if the Rolling Stones can still perform why can't we! I preached and sang, and granddaughter Alice danced ballet to worship God, together with Milena and Rayla, to the music of What a Beautiful Name / Agnus Dei (Travis & Lily Cottrell). It was a tear jerker and greatly blessed! We ended up the service with communion just after midnight. In fact the communion service was especially nice because we held it, not by candlelight, but by mobile phone light after a power cut. ( utterly refuse to use the americanism 'power outage'!
For the rest of the week we will hopefully rest up a bit - just will need to prepare to preach next Sunday of course when there will be a baptism too.
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