Another wonderful and unique chance for the missionary community to build one another up happened again last night.
The Lord family is very musical. The father, Colin, is a music teacher in the school. (He specializes in the clarinet). His wife, Diane, plays the piano. The oldest daughter, Natasha, is in 8th grade and plays both keyboard and percussion. She gave a recital about a month ago and, while needing to work on expression, is essentially already a concert pianist. I'm sure that the other 4 children are involved in music too. I know that Jonathan, the oldest boy, sings bass.
The Lords decided to host an informal event in the primary school auditorium that would feature Natasha playing music by Yanni (who has had specials featured on TV, often staged at night in Athens below Mount Acropolis) and dessert. She played up on the stage while a video of nature from every season was projected on the wall.
The room was darkened so that people could sit and chat in small clusters. Diane had arranged with other ladies to provide a wide selection of pies (chocolate banana cream, pumpkin, strawberry rhubarb, vanilla banana cream, etc), ice cream, and hot drinks. A slice of pie was 2 kina (about 60 cents), same for a scoop of ice cream, and 1 kina for huge cups of coffee (chocolate macademia) or tea. Can't beat those prices.
Colin announced at the start that poeple were welcome to chat while Natasha played. The goal was to provide a setting where we could just relax, visit with friends, enjoy the scenes from God's creation, and listen to music.
Just one more example of the many ways the servants of God here in PNG serve one another without being asked.
Oh, we decided to buy a remaining pumpkin pie to take home. It cost us 16 kina (around $3.50). Can't beat that price.
The Lord family is very musical. The father, Colin, is a music teacher in the school. (He specializes in the clarinet). His wife, Diane, plays the piano. The oldest daughter, Natasha, is in 8th grade and plays both keyboard and percussion. She gave a recital about a month ago and, while needing to work on expression, is essentially already a concert pianist. I'm sure that the other 4 children are involved in music too. I know that Jonathan, the oldest boy, sings bass.
The Lords decided to host an informal event in the primary school auditorium that would feature Natasha playing music by Yanni (who has had specials featured on TV, often staged at night in Athens below Mount Acropolis) and dessert. She played up on the stage while a video of nature from every season was projected on the wall.
The room was darkened so that people could sit and chat in small clusters. Diane had arranged with other ladies to provide a wide selection of pies (chocolate banana cream, pumpkin, strawberry rhubarb, vanilla banana cream, etc), ice cream, and hot drinks. A slice of pie was 2 kina (about 60 cents), same for a scoop of ice cream, and 1 kina for huge cups of coffee (chocolate macademia) or tea. Can't beat those prices.
Colin announced at the start that poeple were welcome to chat while Natasha played. The goal was to provide a setting where we could just relax, visit with friends, enjoy the scenes from God's creation, and listen to music.
Just one more example of the many ways the servants of God here in PNG serve one another without being asked.
Oh, we decided to buy a remaining pumpkin pie to take home. It cost us 16 kina (around $3.50). Can't beat that price.
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