Can you read what this says? Neither can I, but I saw a lot of this type of writing on Sunday. Jeff was invited to preach at a Vietnamese church in Des Moines on Sunday and Zach and I went with. This church is part of our C&MA Denomination. The people there were extremely gracious and loving.
During the Sunday School hour, the adults all gathered together and Jeff showed them a slide show of our church and our ministry in Boone. While Jeff spoke, everyone ate a traditional Vietnamese breakfast (a crusty hoagie roll filled with meat, shredded carrots and cabbage, and cilantro; a fruit cup; and clam chowder). Jeff then spoke during the church service.
This was a very interesting experience. The entire morning was spoken in the Vietnames language except when they were speaking to us (often through a young adult that knew fluent English). Probably 40% of the people spoke flawless English, 40% spoke broken English, and 20% do not speak any English. Both services had an interpreter so everyone could understand Jeff. Of course, we couldn't understand the first part of the church service. They sang hymns that I recognized (and the hymnal did have a few verses written in English so I was able to sing along). I think that the neatest thing was to see people very different from me worshipping the very same God. I guess we aren't really all that different after all!!
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