A Full Sunday

Our first Sunday here we went to Alan's church. It is a little different. They meet in an American 50's style diner called Sparkys (kinda funny). It is covered in the typical Americana memorabilia of random pictures, license plates from every state, baseball and basketball cards, and trinkets and do dads from every where that to us is a piece of “home”. We found the Oregon/Portland table that has Blazer stuff on it. Miles was pretty excited about that. Church started at 9:30 am. We sang the same songs we sing at our home church, Sunrise, which was comforting and the teaching was solid. There were about 8 families that all treated us so nicely and made us feel at home. Praise the Lord for that. Tom the owner of Sparkys knows the president of World Vision India and can get us in contact with him, and that also seemed like confirmation we were in the right place. Pretty exciting.

After church we spent the rest of the day at Ideal Beach. It was about an hour away but CLEAN and NOT BUSY and there was a POOL! I am so excited about that. It was stunning. Straight off a post card. Palm trees, huge waves hitting the sand, crashing everywhere, hammocks, chairs under palm trees, it was a beach resort complete with a gorgeous swimming pool! The sun was hot and the water was so refreshingJ oh it was perfect! We will be spending much time there I am sure. It was beautiful—and so far the only place we have seen white people. That is a weird deal.