MI Team and Easter Egg Hunt

I won’t write a lot tonight due to the lateness of the hour (and we lose an hour tonight because of Daylight Savings), but I wanted to stop by anyway especially to update those faithful readers who are wondering how the team is doing.

Today we had a major event for the community – which included decorating eggs, decorating cookies – and a massive Easter egg hunt (we’re talking over 800 eggs!).

These things are not a tradition here, so it was quite a novelty.  We had a great turn out, over 200 people I believe and about half of them people that were not familiar to us.

There was a very clear presentation of the Gospel, and some great opportunities to share with people afterwards, either to make friends or share the Gospel again too.

The team was a great help, hiding eggs, guarding eggs, and finding ways to communicate with people.

In the afternoon they spent time preparing for the week ahead – there’s lots to do.

One of the team members, Tony, was feeling sick, but he went back to his house to sleep and is being well taken care of by his adopted family.  We kept checking up on him and we think he should be doing a lot better tomorrow.  It’s been a whirlwind so far for everyone, so we are working hard to make sure everyone gets some sleep tonight and doesn’t push themselves too hard.

In the evening we went to the home of some people in the church who make great pizza (as a business), and it was a blessing to spend time with them.  AND their pizza is FANTASTIC.

I’m going to leave it at that for tonight.  Lord willing in the next day or so I’ll have some video and pictures to post, so stay tuned!

Oh, I wanted to point you to Tina’s blog – she has some pictures of the community centre activities from yesterday and today, and some commentary…

Closing Program for the Community Center
Easter Egg Hunt!