Just a brief posting this week as we celebrate the Easter holiday. KC had a short workweek due to Good Friday – the FSM national government was more generous than the Yap State government, however, and so Matt worked a full week.
On Easter Sunday, we decided to give church a try. We’d been a little apprehensive about this. There are certainly churches here, mostly Catholic, Mormon, and Seventh Day Adventist. None are Methodist. One that we had spotted in Colonia was the Yap Evangelical Church. The church is high up on the hill beside the Blue Lagoon (the source of this name is somewhat mysterious, since the body of water is neither blue nor a lagoon). It’s a picturesque open-air building, and was nicely dressed up for Easter.
We enjoyed the service, although it was mostly in Yapese. Luckily, the sermon was given by a visiting pastor in English, and was then translated into Yapese. This did have the unfortunate consequence of doubling the sermon’s length, but it was fun nonetheless.
Other highlights of the service included a performance by the children’s choir. We’re well on our way to concluding that kids’ feelings about singing in public are the same no matter where you go. About half of them – shuffling back and forth with their eyes down – clearly didn’t want to be there, a few were hamming it up, and the remainder were enjoying the music.
An Easter egg hunt followed the service. Matt had been looking forward to this all week, and felt well-prepared to knock down dozens of small children in order to acquire a mountain of candy and subsequent bellyache, but KC banned him from participating. Maybe next year, when the kids are a little bigger and can absorb the contact more easily.
Here’s the entrance to the church:
And the view from the front steps:
We hope everyone had a nice Easter (or Passover), and we’ll write more next week!
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