Sunday in the Village

Sunday, the Lord's day.

We started the day off with home made cinnamon rolls. I say homemade, but everything is homemade here. Becky rolled out the dough last night on the counter after our discipleship.

Ginger lead discipleship. She shared one of her recent quiet times on preparing oneself for the Lord's work. Anna, the Harrell's intern from Sumter, SC led us in worship. Something you might not think about, but this is one of the only times the Harrells and the McDaniels get to worship in English.

We made it to the church this morning around 8:30 and we began at 9:00 with Sunday School. Ryan taught all the adults with an adaptation of his lesson from yesterday on the importance of teaching children and our responsibilities as parents who are believers.

The ladies took all of the children and had Sunday School. They used most of the teaching methods we went over yesterday including song and dance.

The order of service is a little different than HGBC. We started with a short song and then all the visitors went to the front and were introduced. Their were four visitors other than us (14 total including the McDaniels). Next was preaching.

Joseph preached today and did an awesome job. It was about 90 degrees and 90% humidity. Needless to say Joseph got a little sweaty. Each sentence was translated both in Portuguese and Makhuwa. Brian did the Portuguese and Abilio (a native) translated into Makhuwa

Joseph had a three point message from Luke 21:1-4 and Matthew 23:5-7.

1. It's not how much you give it's how much of yourself you give to God.

2. We give and serve to glorify God, not ourselves

3. Salvation comes through trusting Christ

After preaching, they "took" up the offering, meaning each group (kids, women, youth and men) danced down the aisle and placed their offering in the plate. Becky and Brian gave each of us some Mozambique money for our offering dance. Maybe we could adopt this method at HGBC.

Next each group performed a worship song. We went first and sang "O, Happy Day" and then "How Great is Our God". Next were the women and they were awesome. Then the kids went and they were also great. Both of them blew us out of the water. We have video that we can share went we get back.

The ladies all wore their capulanas, including the Pastor's wife "Hirma Rosa".