Good Sabbath!

I had a good Sabbath today! Brian and I attended the BCFC church in Bendera, which is on the Bible College grounds (where Brian is staying and just across the fence from where I am). They have a prayermeeting each Sunday at 8:30am, then Sunday School at 9am, and the worship service at 10:30. The man who is pastoring this church (who is actually one of the part-time students at the Bible College and is in charge of one of the bookshops here) is one of the very few Kenyans who believe in starting things on time! So the service began at 10:30 sharp, even though only about a quarter of the congregation was there. The others straggled in during the next 45 minutes.
Did I mention before that in Kenya you have to be ready for anything? Both Brian and I, as the visitors, were called up to the front to “bring greetings” and say a few words of encouragement. That’s pretty routine here though. What caught me off guard was when Pastor Choge came down to me while the choir was singing their piece and said he wanted Brian and me to sing a duet!! We had about 3 minutes notice to prepare, and I must give Brian credit for keeping us going because I got a bad attack of the nerves and had to keep taking breaths in the middle of the lines. I just can't deal with singing in front of people unless it’s with a big group.
The service finished around 12:30, and since there’s never an evening meeting here (it gets dark about 6:30pm and wouldn’t be safe to bring everyone out after dark), we had the rest of the day free. So Brian came over and we listened to the Ballymena morning service, then I spent a couple hours studying, then we had dinner and then listened to the Ballymena evening service and part of the Lisburn evening service. So now I’m ready for bed! It was great to be able to tune in to the webcasts though, and to have our souls refreshed by preaching in English that we could understand! Don’t ever take this privilege for granted!