Lights on, Lights off

There are some parts of living in a foreign country that make life interesting. Some of them you can understand and others you just have to accept. I guess this morning was one of the later.

This morning started out just like a normal Sunday morning. We got up finished our final perparations for worship and began our service just like we always do. Everything seemed to be going fine until about half way through our songs all of the electricity in our building went out. (for those of you who have not seen our building we have no windows in our meeting room and the only light is what comes from our lights or the front door.) Not knowing if this was an unannounced work day for Coelba, our power company, or if it was something with our building we started checking our breakers and the diner across the street. As it turns out it was our breakers. After Keith worked with the breakers for a minute and we moved everyone into our front lobby the power came back on in the building. We invited everyone back in and were able to worship for another 10-20 minutes before the lights went out again.

By the end of the service the eletricity went off three times and was promising a fourth if we did not finish quickly, our main breaker was sparking, and Travis had preached most of his sermon using a flashlight. All in all not the day we had planned, but then again what day is. In the end I think we all made a memory this morning and more importantly we were still together as the family of God. As for our electrical problems that is something to look into this week and just part of the package of our building, but we will get it all straightened out.