After the busy past week, it’s time to rest. Less than a mile from our “Vue” apartment in Geelong, there’s a psalm-singing-only church that we walked to for morning worship.

The people there not only greeted us warmly, but I noticed that they use the same pew Bibles and psalter publication that our church in Atlanta does. The order of worship seemed familiar, and the only real difference between the two churches is our addition of the Trinity hymnal. I would say about 150 people were there–including lots of kids!

The pastor, who is from somewhere in the UK and has a Chinese wife, asked us to stay afterwards for their Sunday School “end-of-term programme” held in a back fellowship building. I counted over 50 students ranging from three years old through secondary school. Each received a gift from his or her teacher before leaving on summer break. They have the next eight weeks off. Each teacher talked about the class curriculum, and I discovered that some of them use the same curriculum I’ve used! Others created their own materials. Before the individual gifts were given, the students sang different psalms. Two volunteer students held up posters of the lyrics for the other students; they then turned to the adult audience to have us sing along.

When we walked back to our suite for a lunch of quiche and salad, we took a slightly different route through a beautiful city park with a bandstand, library, art center, and event center. The juxtaposition of the library (classic architecture) and the event center (modern architecture) is so striking that I had to take more photos.

This afternoon as John works on our annual Christmas Eve program, I’m looking out the window of our suite. We can see the Corio Bay and the ferris wheel from our balcony.

Time for a nap.