The day after the wedding was the Lord’s Day, but failing to find a church in the morning we just had an improvised Bible study type thing ourselves.
And then after lunch we headed back to Pretoria for the evening service in Central Baptist Church (where, as Walker informed me this week, ML-J once preached)
…Avoiding the hijackers but hitting a traffic jam and getting there in the middle of whoever was preaching, but we got to chat to Pastor Charles for a good while after.
The next morning, following the advice from Pastor Charles, some of us went to the Vortrekker monument, not sure what the others did!
Every year on the 16th of December (The Day of the Vow (or Covenant), celebrating the victory of 464 Voortrekkers over 10,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River),
a ray of sunlight shines through the dome onto the cenotaph
Pretorius’ (the Afrikaner Commander’s) Bible
Then it was time to go shopping for a few football/rugby kits (about the only thing you can’t get cheaper in SA!), head to the airport, leave off the cars, say Dubai for a final time and arrive home in time for Joel to graduate. And to start the longest running series in SWS history!
Is it true that in South Africa they consider the visions of Siener Nicholas van Rensburg as a an appendix to the Book of Revelation? Eish.