Easter Weekend

Easter in South Africa is not as celebrated or recognised as it is in America. The malls were all open on Sunday and there were plenty of empty seats in church. There were no plastic eggs in the shops and it was even hard to find chocolate eggs. Despite this general lack of celebrating the resurrection of Christ, I had an amazing weekend with fellow believers!
I went to a township church in Nellmapius on Friday night. We danced and sang for hours. Most of the music was not in English, but the Spirit of the Lord was in that tent and it was a wonderful night of worship. Belinda and I picked up Busi and Dimakatso on Saturday morning and headed back to Nellmapius for another time of praise and worship. Then I headed to the airport to pick up some potential future OMers from Florida. Sunday morning was a celebration at our church (Willows Methodist) and then we made the traditional African "pop" for lunch. It was delicious! We couldn't find eggs, so we had a candy bar hunt for the kids. Then we went swimming and played the rest of the evening!
I was blessed to be able to talk to AND SEE (with web cams) my entire family on Easter afternoon! God is good...