"Shake your body in worship to the Lord!"

Today I went to church in town with a small group of people from Mercy Ships and let me tell you it was an experience. This service only lasted 3 hours, in comparison to the usual 5-6 hours and was filled with more dancing than any high school dance I went to! :) Not really, but it was so fun seeing the men and women get out of their chairs and fill the aisles with dancing for the Lord.

Usually the drive to the service would take around 20 minutes, but today marked the end of Ramadan for the Muslims and there was a MASSIVE gathering of people at a mosque that happened to be on our way to church. Because so many had gathered with their mats there was no more room on the ground to spread out to pray so people had even started to fill the streets with their mats to pray, this made driving a little difficult as you can imagine, but hey! why not?? WTA.

Little girl in church....


The service was in French and a local dialect, so a man who came with us translated the service for us. At one point the pastor dedicated a newborn baby to the Lord and the whole family was invited up to dedicate the baby, before we knew it about 25 people danced up the aisles with the mom leading the procession dancing away with her baby in her arms. Apparently the whole family came to dedicate the family. :) At the end of the service we were ushered into a side room and given various soft drinks before we were thanked for coming and made our way home. Today was a good day.