Trip to Church in Sydney
Today we thought it would be fun to find a Unity Church to attend. We hopped online and found out there is one in North Sydney, about 16 miles from our hotel.
Since it took us awhile to get us all ready, we had to cab it over to the church.
I had flashbacks of our Unity church in Metairie -- "Church of the Shopping Center." This one was actually in an office high rise building. We had called ahead to let them know we were coming, and to get directions.
This was the tiniest Unity church we've attended so far (not counting the one time when we had church while sitting in lawn chairs outside, after Katrina wrecked our old church).
There were about 11 people TOTAL in attendance (including the 5 of us AND the minister). Penny (she's been with Unity for years adn years) said this minister was definitely "old school Unity."
The service was very nice, and afterwards they had refreshments.
One lady was making curried egg sandwiches taht morning, and said she had a "hunch" that she should make twice as many sandwiches today.
Good thing she listened to that hunch -- those sandwiches were delicious! We also had tea and biscuits, sweet cakes and guacamole adn crackers. Yum yum.
It was a real treat to sit and talk with these people -- such warm and inviting folks, adn some of them had traveled to Colorado or otehr parts of the U.S. And they answered our questiouns about Australia, and we answered their quesitons about America.
And -- get this -- this was a total "New Orleans moment" for me. The minisiter and Penny BOTH KNOW some of the same people.
Now is that a small world, or what??
After church, we hit a health food store and walked around a bit (had a walkabout), and then we caught the train back to our apartment to fix some lunch.
The weather was kind of yucky this morning -- rainy adn a bit cold, but then it cleared up adn the sun came out, whcih was very nice.
Andy and I ran a few errands in the afternoon (I've got a huge blister on the bottom of each foot -- got to get these taken care of) and then it's time to prepare for some busienss associates who are coming by this evening for a little welcome reception..then we're all off to dinner (Penny will stay back with the girls)
OK, gotta run -- cheers!
Since it took us awhile to get us all ready, we had to cab it over to the church.
I had flashbacks of our Unity church in Metairie -- "Church of the Shopping Center." This one was actually in an office high rise building. We had called ahead to let them know we were coming, and to get directions.
This was the tiniest Unity church we've attended so far (not counting the one time when we had church while sitting in lawn chairs outside, after Katrina wrecked our old church).
There were about 11 people TOTAL in attendance (including the 5 of us AND the minister). Penny (she's been with Unity for years adn years) said this minister was definitely "old school Unity."
The service was very nice, and afterwards they had refreshments.
One lady was making curried egg sandwiches taht morning, and said she had a "hunch" that she should make twice as many sandwiches today.
Good thing she listened to that hunch -- those sandwiches were delicious! We also had tea and biscuits, sweet cakes and guacamole adn crackers. Yum yum.
It was a real treat to sit and talk with these people -- such warm and inviting folks, adn some of them had traveled to Colorado or otehr parts of the U.S. And they answered our questiouns about Australia, and we answered their quesitons about America.
And -- get this -- this was a total "New Orleans moment" for me. The minisiter and Penny BOTH KNOW some of the same people.
Now is that a small world, or what??
After church, we hit a health food store and walked around a bit (had a walkabout), and then we caught the train back to our apartment to fix some lunch.
The weather was kind of yucky this morning -- rainy adn a bit cold, but then it cleared up adn the sun came out, whcih was very nice.
Andy and I ran a few errands in the afternoon (I've got a huge blister on the bottom of each foot -- got to get these taken care of) and then it's time to prepare for some busienss associates who are coming by this evening for a little welcome reception..then we're all off to dinner (Penny will stay back with the girls)
OK, gotta run -- cheers!
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