Easter

 

Easter Sunday, May 2nd, we decided to go to church in the village, but when we drove there, the gate was locked (we found out today it was because of the Zaporosia quarantine lockdown, there will be church this Sunday, the pastor wanted Garry to get the lawn mowed at the church this morning). Garry really wanted to attend church for Easter, so we drove to Dnepro and went to Morningstar. Of course we were a bit late, since we left the village late, they were singing the last praise song when we came in. We were waved to chairs at the back, even though a lot of people were standing. People were happy to see us. 

The Sunday school had a recitation and song for Easter before the sermon. It was a long service and we were invited to the picnic that afternoon, but had to go home and rest. We are still not back to normal, although we are better than we were. 

Monday we were watching the sky as we prepared for the picnic with the students for Easter. It really looked like rain, but how would we cook meat over the fire if we weren't outside? At 3:30 there was a downpour for ten minutes, but by four o'clock, students were showing up and playing games and Garry had the fire going.

 

Vlad prayed for the meal. Just as the food was served, we had some raindrops but we stayed outside and everyone was full by the time I handed out some little Easter chocolates and put out the paska bread I made on Saturday. 

Here's a few more photos. If you are wondering where the benches came from, Dima decided we needed them and built six last week. Garry is beginning to wonder if he'll need more lumber when they start building the heifer shed. 

Alona and Sasha helped clean up afterwards. The chicken legs had a rough time, some fell in the fire, but they ate them anyway. We also had pork shaslik.