Fellowship by Mike
By now the team from Holy Comforter is probably making their final descent into Charlotte, NC. My lack of internet access made publishing final update difficult. I would still, however, like to describe our final full day.
Our last day brought us to the diocesan [a word much harder to say than it looks] house in San Jose, the capital. There we were able to meet with Father Hector and the St. John’s mission team from Charlotte. The Eucharist in particular stood out to me: it was nothing any of us were used to. The room that we sat in was an unfinished common room (which later doubled as the dining room) with no decorations or paint on the walls. The Bishop performed the service, sometimes slipping into Spanish during certain prayers. For the message, he had several people in attendance share about their experience in working missions. All was very informal and unofficial- and touching. Here we met together to learn how God had touched lives in a tiny unfinished room in downtown San Jose. The Lord’s Supper came to symbolize our week together: different and unexpected, and full of God’s presence.