Happy Easter!

It was a very Happy Easter...

During the week I made hot cross buns and shared them with colleagues at work... they went down very well, and it was nice to be able to explain the British custom.

On Easter Day I went to Curahuasi, the village about an hour and a half away where there is a mission hospital.  They had organised a combined service with all the Curahuasi churches which, in a context where churches are often very separate, was lovely.  I went to see my new friend Ruth who is working as a doctor in the hospital for a few months, but got a lift with Erin and Brendan as Brendan was preaching - using the AIDIA Quechua New Testament and some of the new oral Bible teaching materials.

 

It was great to be in the service, which had elements of Spanish, Quechua, English and German (the hospital is German-run) and to be among so many other people celebrating Jesus' resurrection and our new life.

 

Missionaries washing the feet of local Christians - a lovely symbolic act at the end of the service.

Afterwards I went up to the hospital accommodation with Ruth for a coffee and fresh strawberries and lovely views of the snow-topped mountains.  It's lovely to have these times of doing nothing wth a friend - there are lots of people and things happening in Abancay but I do miss housemates!