{"id":14,"date":"2010-01-18T01:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T01:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/christinehoover\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-05-17T01:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T01:50:48","slug":"our-sunday-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/christinehoover\/2010\/01\/18\/our-sunday-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Sunday Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We went to a different church today, about a 45 minute walk away. Yes it was a long walk, but an interesting one.\u00a0 Through the muddy paths we walked through many tea fields.\u00a0 Have we mentioned the tea here is good?\u00a0 It\u2019s great and the fields it comes from are right next to us.\u00a0 In fact, this area is a major producer of tea and coffee, some coffee that is even sold to Starbucks.\u00a0 Impressive, right?<\/p>\n

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And we saw a few pigs hanging out too.\u00a0 A very precious commodity around here.\u00a0 They are often used in bride prices and killed during large festivals.\u00a0 These were just wandering around eating whatever they could find.<\/p>\n

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And then we got to the church itself.\u00a0 Kusla Nazarene Church.\u00a0 In the first picture I\u2019m sitting on the ground outside the church talking to one of the young girls who attends the church with her family.\u00a0 In the next picture you can see the church building itself.\u00a0 Inside the church was very simple.\u00a0 There was a pulpit and a whole arrangement of flowers and fruits and vegetables decorating the front of the church.\u00a0 The rest of the room was empty with hay spread on the ground for us to sit on.\u00a0 The service was simple.\u00a0 We sang, had an offering, a short sermon, and prayed.\u00a0 But it was beautiful to be there was people so different from us worshiping Jesus.\u00a0 The service was done in a combination of Pidgin and Tok Place.\u00a0 Tok place refers to a specific village\u2019s language.\u00a0 Each village speaks a different language, but then many learn pidgin as well as a second language in order to communicate with people from other villages and to do business with them.\u00a0 Because each village still has it\u2019s own language, there are over 800 languages spoken in PNG today, and most Papua new guineans are fluent in multiple languages.<\/p>\n

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After church we headed out for the second part of our adventure – the rock slides.\u00a0 We went to down a muddy jungle path to an area of waterfalls and many smooth rocks that served as slides.\u00a0 Climbing over slippery rocks, we all made it to the top of the slides and down we went, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.\u00a0 Unfortunately we didn\u2019t grab any pictures of the slides we spent the most time at (mostly because we were in the water the whole time) but the next picture shows and area close to where we were sliding and you get the general concept.\u00a0By the time we made it home we were very tired and very muddy.\u00a0 It was a good day. : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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