Preparations for Sunday

Our son, Arthur, is finally on the RMS and on his way to St Helena. He boarded the ship at 12.30 pm SA time, and Graeme made a "last call" to him on his cell phone. Roll on Thursday, when he disembarks in Jamestown.

A young man, Colin Williams, who works on the Falklands has come home for a short visit to his family. His parents and brother and sister are very active members in our church. He was chatting to Graeme after the Thursday Bible study, and said that he would like to be baptised - but it would have to be this Sunday, as he was returning to the Falklands before next Sunday. (Isn't it great that Teddy and Trevor had already cleared away most of the rubble in the chapel.) Although the chapel still looks sad, we could access the baptismal pool. There is an interleading door from the school room where we hold our services, into the chapel, and it would simply be a case of the congregation walking from the one room to the other.
Colin and his brother, Nick, spent the afternoon tidying the area around the baptismal pool and cleaning out the debris that had fallen into it during the rock fall. Graeme monitored the filling of the pool during the course of the afternoon.