The weather was going to be warm for Sunday. We were not as
worried about that as we might have been had we flown in from chilly Tassie, as
our acclimatisation was coming on nicely. We went to the new Baldivis church
where we met an array of familiar faces, starting with Mike Eilander usshing us
into our seats. The (visiting) minister turned out to be none other than Rev. Cornelis
Kleijn, last seen by us as a young adolescent broekie visiting us as Luuk’s
friend many years ago. We did a double take, and so did he. He was on furlough
from Papua-New Guinea where he is working as a missionary.
In the afternoon we had Rev. Steve tHart, also a first for
us. We have read quite a few of his sermons in Launceston, where they are well
received. It was interesting to hear him deliver one in person.
The Baldivis church is very well set up, light, spacious and
airy, with good use made of modern means such as projectors etc. We spoke with
a number of people, old acquaintances and new. I had a conversation with John
Visser, whose uncle we had met in the Box Hill Reformed Church at the beginning
of our 2012 trip. I also failed to recognise my old schoolmate Corrie Brolsma
(Sibum) with whom I shared Grade 6 at East Launceston Primary School in 1960!
Renske went back down to Albany on Sunday
afternoon, and we watched the sunset on the beach. What a nice place to live!
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