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I start to type this while Roger Bannister talks on the phone.
The connection is pretty bad, its like listening to someone who’s in a steel pipe at a train station, during peak hour.
It’s four o’clock, East Timor time, they’ve just had communion.
The Presbyterian Church of Timor Leste have had something like their first Assembly today. Acts 15 revisited.
They’ve adopted a Constitution; also the Westminster Confession as a standard; and dealt with some other business, including filling some official positions. No word on whether any committees were formed.
The different delegates, pastors and elders were able to participate as equals and leaders of the church. This will help further bond them together in partnership and trust.
I was able to speak (such as it was, under the circumstances) to Arlindo Marcal, a leader of this group of Christians. He expressed his appreciation that an elder from our church had come to visit.
We both look forward to more opportunities for mutual support, hopefully including a visit by Arlindo in the second half of next year, which will coincide with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
They’ve been staying and meeting at Liquiçá, a town (and region) about 35 kilometers west of Dili, on the northern coast of East Timor. Roger said yesterday that they’d taken him to the ocean nearby where he saw a hump-back whale.
I think I understood Arlindo say that they’ll head back to Dili soon. That’s where they’ll attend church on Sunday, but I don’t know if they’ll be traveling anywhere on Friday or Saturday. Their official meetings are now complete.
That’s all I know at the minute.