Easter Celebrations

Easter preparations began last week Wednesday, when us as a TREK team were asked to make a backdrop for Easter Sunday. The kids in Massama would be doing a little drama of sorts and they needed a backdrop. We put our artistic skills to use and the result was this:

We were pretty impressed with how the whole thing turned out. I mean, check out that roll away tomb!

One of my teammates, Heidi, has left us for a week. She is currently en route to Abbotsford, BC as we speak to take part in Spring Adventure. We had planned to do a little team Easter Egg Hunt on Easter, but because Heidi left us this morning, we had it last night. Some Easter traditions are just not meant to be broken :)

Easter Sunday consisted of us remaining girls joining Doug, Myra and their granddaughter (who is here visiting for a week) for lunch and the regular 2 church services in Massama and Loures.

Myra's very special and traditional Easter cake she makes.

The kids in Massama took part in a little drama of sorts for today's Easter service. They were very cute with their costumes and their songs. 

After both services today, we had a little snack of sorts. Lots of yummy goodies to indulge in, but no paska to eat unfortunately. Next year, I will eat paska again!

Just as a little side note and praise, our neighbour came to church with us for the first time today. Us girls have had the opportunity to connect with Pina more regularly over the course of the last few weeks, which has been really good. He's definitely an interesting character, but one we feel God is continually placing in our path, so we invited him to church, half expecting he would bail out at the last minute, but he proved us wrong and showed up for the service in Massama today. He seemed to enjoy himself and actually re-connected with a few people he already knew, which was even cooler. Hopefully some seeds were planted in his heart today as he heard the message of the cross and of the resurrection. Please pray for Pina and for us girls as we continue to have conversation with him and as God continues to soften his heart.

Happy Easter!

Christ has Risen Indeed!!!