The car is stopped. Robert Benn is listening to stories and Rob Duncanson will be taking photos and listening as well. I have decided to sit and type, since the motor still runs and the air-conditioning operates. A government funded road improvement scheme has halted our journey to Aileu Province. Flexibility. I began the day …
The Dili congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Timor Leste is one year old. It meets to worship in the second largest lecture room of the University. Even as we gather at 9.00am, it is hot and humid. Though the room is on the second floor there is not a breath of a breeze, …
Returning to Liquiça, we are blessed by another welcoming. A red banner hung over the door way said in Portuguese: “Welcome to Pastor Robert Benn, General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of Australia.” (A battlefield promotion, to be sure.) More flower petals, and our stoles carry the woven name of the Christian Church Liquiça. First …
Our vehicle is stopped. We have just heard the praises of God sung on the roof of East Timor while we looked down on the tops of clouds. Now our return journey is stymied by a van with a flat tire blocking a very narrow road. Flexibility. But more of that later. Last night after …
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