Sunday, July 4, 2010

PASTOR'S BARBECUE
Once a month we normally have a Pastor's breakfast here, the idea being to promote unity amongst the Churches in the community, for them to get to know and support one another.
It was decided to try a "Pastor's BBQ", a more informal time, to invite their families as well, to bless them and to have fellowship together. We had more then 50 people book up (the numbers kept going up in the week leading up to it), plus also the team who were preparing the food.


As you can see, the barbecue area is not very big, so it was quite a challenge to cook SO much meat, but Dave and Tijs did a great job. It was even ready before everyone came. We had a team chopping in the kitchen all morning preparing salad and fruit salad (and then washing up all afternoon). This was made even more challenging by the fact that we had no running water (the house had been without water entering for 2 days and the tanks had run out). However, there was such a good atmosphere as we served together, with joy in our hearts.
The food was wonderful, many Churches were able to meet together, eat together, share a word together, pray together and (for the children) play together.

A tiring day, but SO worthwhile.

3 comments:

Chrisd said...
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Chrisd said...

Hi Dave. That is SOOO encouraging!! On Sunday evening we were specificaly praying for encouragement. Isn't God amazing!! Who knows what He's achieved through that already.
Blessings Chris

Roger and Mary said...

How encouraging when all that hard work has a really valuable outcome. Being without water must have made all the prep. doubly challenging!

Love, R and M