Posted by Dylan Mathias
We are currently visiting Goa, India, for the month, and are excited to bring greetings from the Goa Church of Christ! This is a small church of about 22 disciples, led by Ramesh and Meena, with many similarities to our own. They too stated in 1995, the same year as the Cyprus church. They too have moved cities, from Paniji to Margao, just as we have moved from Nicosia to Limassol. They too have previously had a full-time ministry couple but are now led by a working couple. They too have to deal with many languages, Hindi, English and Konkan, just as we deal with English, Russian and Greek. Maybe they are our twin church!!!
We hope to bring photos next week, but send their greetings! Thankfully they all speak English, even if sometimes I find some of their accents hard to understand just as I am sure they do me! We had a good go at singing in Hindi, but it was probably babble! Fortunately the preacher did half his message in English and half in Konkan, effortlessly slipping and translating between the two. No need for translators here, inspiring and challenging me to maybe learn Greek so I could maybe do the same.......
More to come! God bless,
Dylan, Ann and Keable Mathias
We are currently visiting Goa, India, for the month, and are excited to bring greetings from the Goa Church of Christ! This is a small church of about 22 disciples, led by Ramesh and Meena, with many similarities to our own. They too stated in 1995, the same year as the Cyprus church. They too have moved cities, from Paniji to Margao, just as we have moved from Nicosia to Limassol. They too have previously had a full-time ministry couple but are now led by a working couple. They too have to deal with many languages, Hindi, English and Konkan, just as we deal with English, Russian and Greek. Maybe they are our twin church!!!
We hope to bring photos next week, but send their greetings! Thankfully they all speak English, even if sometimes I find some of their accents hard to understand just as I am sure they do me! We had a good go at singing in Hindi, but it was probably babble! Fortunately the preacher did half his message in English and half in Konkan, effortlessly slipping and translating between the two. No need for translators here, inspiring and challenging me to maybe learn Greek so I could maybe do the same.......
More to come! God bless,
Dylan, Ann and Keable Mathias
