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The Christchurch Team’s last training session started with a real mission experience.
Due to circumstances beyond their control, nearly everyone was late arriving. The training time schedule had to be suddenly revised with times for each session reduced, requiring tolerance and grace by everyone! All rather frustrating, but hey, that’s what can happen on mission. Welcome to mission, and we haven’t even left NZ yet!
The teams first ‘choir’ practice![/caption
One of the features of the session was the children preparing a stick dance that tells the story of the cross. They plan to perform this at the schools, orphanage and villages. And as for the team singing session? Well a few more choir practices will be of great benefit to us, and for those we will sing too!