Dilanee, Julie, Heather from Fleet Methodist Church and Keith and Christine from Spalding Methodist Church visited the joint URC/Mrthodist Church in this beautiful but poor part of Sri Lanka which was very badly hit by the Sunammi. We left the hotel at Kallady, for the two hour journey to the Church, which was due to start to start at 7.30 am.
Unfortunately we arrived late, and crept into the service. All the hymns were in English to help out team, although the readings and the sermon were in Tamil which meant that it felt like a jolly long sermon. The team sang we are marching in the light of the Lord and we then got the congregation to join us and the appeared to enjoy it. I then presented to the reverend a photograph of members of the Fleet church taken two weeks ago.
After the service Julie and Christine did some craft work with the children and we all sang songs. It was a lovely time. We then went to a newly refurbished recreation ground which Dilanee opened. It was wonderful to see the children rush across to play on the swings and the slide - all paid for by Ocean Stars.
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