We drove up to the Ackerman’s home, perched on a beautiful lookout over Port-au-Prince. So, our "Pub Church" has recently become mobile, and we are now "Pub-less." Since our pastor moved his business out of his previous business complex (which included the remains of an Irish Pub and also a courtyard for us to gather on Sunday mornings - hence our name "Pub church"), we have shifted between different meeting spots in peoples’ homes or in the beauty of nature.
At the Ackerman’s, we grabbed our mugs of coffee, and ingeniously situated the large palm fronds that we chopped from our front yard that morning and hauled up the mountain in the back of our pick-up. The service began.
Beautiful hymns, followed by an amazing, sort-of 3D flannel-graph display of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem and re-telling of the story by Jodi herself.
We talked about the Sermon on the Mount; we talked about
Jesus being the fulfillment of the Old Testament, a mission that was completed,
was "finished" at the moment of his death on the cross.
We discussed being
the Salt – flavor - of the earth.
And then we dug in to some Indian food which was also
delicious (just the right amount of salt), in celebration of a birthday.
So, palm fronds, birthdays, Sermon on the Mount: this
completed our Palm Sunday celebrations. |
| Our pastor fighting with the giant palm branch we posted behind his chair. |
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