at Church yesterday

there were about say 200 people at the second service - the one I usually go to and there were probably 100 or so at the 7.45 service. Just around the corner at the Lutherans it was packed and at Eriku at the AoG it was packed and you hear the singing as the PMV approaches. It was a relatively new PMV I got on yesterday and I felt embarrassed and ashamed to be walking dirt and mud from the rain into it. The radio was working and playing a sermon from an AoG preacher in Tok Pisin, the door closed and the seats were still the original vinyl and the fold down seats were supported of their own accord - ie, without a battery to prop them up. Anyway, back to the service: there were nearly a dozen babies, children and teenagers baptised; after Communion about forty Sunday school children came in for the blessing. Those sort of numbers don't seem to happen in most of the churches I have been to back home.
After Church, Frank invited me and Nathan to lunch at the Lae inter. I had the curry pie of the day and they had the roast bif steak. Later Frank took me to see his two shops and then he drove me back to the Uni. He's been here fifty years altogether. He came from Lau about 100 mile away where John Laws of radio fame parent's had the Collins and Laws stoa (store).