Saturday evening the Youth of the church have an all night prayer time. With singing and worship. We joined them from 8pm until midnight (they continued until 2am).
Here is a note from Amy:
helloooo everyone!
we're all having a great time here, it's been amazing to see the difference in cultures. the "youth group" all night service that we went to was very different than i was expecting. you are a youth here if you are not married, so rather than worshiping with people our age, it was more with 20 year olds. but it was still very fun :) the singing and dancing here is incredible! all of them are amazing singers, and rwandans in general are famous for their dancing. church the next morning came WAY too early, but it was impossible to fall asleep in such an intense church service. it will be a huge change going back to the much more traditional services in the states.
i miss all of you, you're all in my prayers.
MUCH love
-Amy Rose
And a note from Emily:
Mwaramutse!
The traditional Rwandan greeting for the morning :) The all night prayer was a little bit daunting at first what with there being only ten of us, none of us really knowing what was going to take place and being very tired, but once we got there and the party started, so to speak, we had a blast. It was really fun and intersting to experience the dancing that the Rwandans do as part of their worship, I was very proud of myself for being complimented a few times on my dancing :) The next morning the group split up and went to the separate churches that we had attended choir practice earlier in the week. The service we went to was two hours and forty five minutes but very full of energy and great analogies of God's love and the need for us to be in a deep relationship with Him.
I miss you! and am looking forward to at the end of the trip!
Loves,
Emily
3 comments:
Hey Friends,
Josh Reid, here. I'm thinking about you all and praying for you today. Sounds wonderful: warm weather, hard work, singing and dancing, prayer at midnight...wish I was with you! Tell my main man, Drew, that he needs to post something!
Peace.
It's great to hear your perspectives on the worship and dancing. I would love to experience that part of Rwandan culture.
Wonderful to hear your voice Emily, Really made us miss you. I am glad you all are having such a wonderful time. What a great worship experience for you all to have.
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