Cape Town Day 3

This morning John Berry picked us up for church at King of Kings. Fun contemporary worship. The sermon was very traditional. The guest preacher was an older man with white hair, but he invited us to open our Bibles or our devices, so he's not entirely back in the 20th c. I opened my device and actually took notes on his points on how the ascension is essential to the gospel on this Ascension Sunday--things like Jesus sending the Holy Spirit and preparing a place for us and the fact that the incarnation would be incomplete without Christ's return to heaven.

After the service we stayed to chat and met Don Glass, an SAGM MK--that is, a Swaziland missionary kid from the pre-AEF version of our mission when it was South Africa General Mission. His mother actually joined the mission when it was still Cape General Mission, the original mission started by Andrew Murray in the late 19th c. She died one year after the merger with SIM, so she was part of the entire history of AEF. Don said he has prayed for us for years, ever since we went to Mozambique. He didn't anticipate meeting us before heaven!

It was still early for lunch, so we drove up to Simontown and walked in to see the penguins. These are jackass penguins, so called because of the braying sound they make. This is the nesting season.

Beautiful views of False Bay

As we got back to the car, I was amused at this sign. No penguins under our car.

Lunch at the same beautiful spot at Fish Hoek Beach, but we ate inside out of the wind, where we didn't have to worry about a pigeon making a deposit on our plates as one did on Sandy's yesterday.

Spent the afternoon and early evening with Graham and Michelle Naude (formerly Kenya and Namibia), and Alan and Jenni Profit (formerly Kenya). Both have worked at some of the theological schools we have been involved with over the years, and we all get one another's prayer letters. Alan is now involved teaching seminary courses from Bible Institute of South Africa at the prison where Nelson Mandela was held. They have seven 'lifers' who will be graduating in December, and they are trying to get permission for them to actually attend the graduation ceremonies. So many tourists are interested in the prison where Mandela was held that the prison may well consider it good publicity.

The six of us talked non-stop for several hours. It would be nice if we didn't have to wait another ten years to get together.