We just come back from another church, called Elim, which reminded us quite a lot of a congregation of coloured people where we went in Cape Town ("Open Doors"). Indeed we got to know a very nice young woman from South Africa there. She's been here for only one week more than we are - she's a psychologist working at Manaaki Health, and she came here "just for a change". Her ancestors are from Botswana. She's the 6th person from South Africa we met here.
In the churches we also meet people from everyday life or make usefull new acquaintances: the woman from the bank, one of the children's teachers, a GP from the other health centre, a German couple, and more... and it is amazing that, despite the cultural differences, that are much bigger than we expected, the God we are worshipping is the same God in every country we got to know - we really found that it is true what Lutz, our German pastor likes to say: "God has no culture", which means that Christian faith can be lived in any cultural background, and Christanity is not (or shouldn't be) a culture (or "religion"), but a believe.
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