Church & the Spa

Day #5

Today is Sunday so they took us to church this morning.  We went to the International Evangelical Church.  One of our guides is a youth pastor at this church.  They also have services in English.  It was a very American style church.  The service was formatted exactly how we could have church (singing, message, offering, and more singing).  We knew 5 out of 7 songs that they sang.  The pastor was white and so were the majority of the people leading worship.  If I had closed my eyes I would have thought we were at home.  There were people of many different nationalities there.  They also had services in French and Amharic so I’m sure if we had gone to those services the format would have been different (I’m assuming). 

We again spent the afternoon with Crew.  It was shorter than the past three days because we went to church which made the time go by too quickly.  We again got to love on him, feed him, and take pictures.  He seemed really happy today.  We left all his toys and clothes we had brought him because we do not know if we will get to see him tomorrow with court.  I hope we will get to say good bye one more time. 

After the orphanage, some of us went to the spa.  I had a pedicure which I paid $15 dollars for.  It was really nice.  My chair had a back massager and the foot tub looked exactly what we have at home.  The lady was nice and spoke pretty good English that did my pedicure.  She gave me a paraffin wax treatment as well which was so warm on my feet it heated my whole body.  It was wonderful. I did worry some about fungus but tried not to think about it. 

Tomorrow is the big day, court.  We don’ know if we will have our appointment in the morning or afternoon until tomorrow morning.  We have to be ready by 8:30 a.m. but we won’t know if we have to wait until afternoon or not.  Please continue to pray for us.  We are trying not to get our hopes us in case we do fail.  We know and feel assured that it is in God’s hands. 

PS Justin is thinking about staying up to watch the Bears game over the internet but it starts after 11 p.m. here so he might have to read about it online.  Depends on what the internet service is like tonight.