We Did It!

My friend and I took our Ethiopian children to church today. We did opt for the Baptist church as opposed to the Orthodox church. Turner and her youngest were actually too small to do anything, so they were in the nursery. Her two oldest had a blast! They got to meet many kids their ages and even got a few phone numbers. I have to say, this was one of the friendliest church congregations I have ever visited. It was a very small congregation, maybe 30 adults. Sometimes, I think that's the way to go. Smaller is better when you want to get to know folks. I've never been much on the mega-churches unless I wanted to go unnoticed. Of course, I was not going to go unnoticed at any Ethiopian church. But this was a very nice experience!

Funny side note: The guy who was interpreting for us was having trouble going back and forth between Amharic and English. He was doing a great job but trying to find an English equivalent to some of the Amharic phrases is difficult as they don't easily translate. Anyway, the preacher was preaching from Psalms. He kept saying "Dawit". ("dah-weet") The guy, whose name was Dawit, leaned over and told me Dawit was Amharic for David. That was the one thing I managed to figure out on my own.

Afterwards, she brought her girls over to play. The kids had a blast! It was in the 60's and sunny yesterday. So, they went outside to play. There was lots of laughter and squealing and fun had by all. We also made cookies on a stick. Again, much to the delight of the kids.

It was a good day!