Treasuring the Moments

The days had passed quickly since our arrival in the DR Congo and Sunday was to be our last full day there. We arrived at Zion Tabernacle (where the wedding had been held on Friday) and this time Sis. Sandy and I were taken immediately up front with our husbands to sit on the platform. They wanted to honor us Americans and they sure did everything they could to make us feel special. Fourteen other visiting ministers were there and sitting with us. But we were the only ladies. Maybe pastors wives experience this type of treatment often, not being one I wouldn’t know, but I have never been treated…

Thank you all for the kind comments on the travel posts. I’m so happy to hear you are enjoying them! This post is all about why we went to Congo in the first place – the wedding!  I took quite a bit of video so I’ve had to condense that because it was simply too long. You know how that goes… What a fun, fun experience the wedding was. I’ve never been to anything like it before so everything was fresh and exciting.  Remember: I was supposed to be all fixed up for this African wedding but my suitcase was lost, never to be seen again (even to this day) and…

There are approximately 700 Message churches in Kinshasa, DR Congo and a church of 600 is considered a small one. I looked up the definition of a mega-church and it’s one considered to be 2,000 or more. But yet, here in the 3rd world country of DR Congo a church of 2,000 is not unusual even amongst denominations. Driving down the street we saw this banner with Bro. Branham’s picture on it. I’m not sure of what it said since it was written in French, but part of it was “Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever.”   We were taken to a lovely restaurant where we met up…

The traffic, people, and the way of driving in the DR Congo was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before and I found it quite fascinating. As I said, The “buses” were quite a bit different than what we have in the States. Almost like mini-vans but a bit bigger. And dented…       You’ll have to excuse the blurry shots I took since they’re snapped from the back seat of a moving vehicle. 🙂   In most of the buses, the people were quite squished. You could tell from the way they sat when passing by that they were trying to squeeze into as little space as possible so…

When we arrived in Kinshasa it was with an almost dreamlike feeling. Taxiing down the runway in a massive plane and looking out on a different world than the one we had left only a few days ago. There were a few people working alongside the runway on one side of it and in one area was sure that was small children I could see as we taxied by. Workers stopped to stare and watch as this mammoth Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrived giving the impression this is not a real common experience. The airport gives testimony to this as well. There are no other planes being unloaded and in fact,…