Good Friday Evening

Lead me to Calvary-South Sudan Arabic:
Sultaan Yesu Kristo juru
Fikiraat' na kulu;
Kelii mashi hak sa kulu,
Sufu al Kalvaari

King of my life, I crown thee now,
Thine shall the glory be;
Lest I forget Thy thorn crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.

Worri ana Getaseemani,
Worri ana al Kalvaari;
Hibu bitaak yauu bi timu,
Mahaal al Kalvaari.

Lest I forget Gethsemane;
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary

How nice it has been to fellowship with other believers today, Good Friday.
Murray and Anne have arrived from Melbourne, for the weekend, so we all went together to the 9am service at the Cathedral this morning... unfortunately, due to a mix up, the English service was over and this was the Bari service, so we left again, so as to not hinder their service by obliging them to use a translator just for us.
On walking home, we decide to have our own sing and fellowship under Rhys and Rhondda's back yard Mangoe tree. We sang dozens of songs together, many accompanied by Rhondda on her adungu, (Sudanese stringed instrument... pictured above) and read from Isaiah 53 and other passages together.
Later this afternoon some of us went up to the Africa Inland Church, for a small meeting meeting there.
Nat has gone out with some of the UN people (some of them rent accomodation here at ACROSS) to see the sites of the town...and got a feed of Nepalese food at the UN Barracks!  They went down the road that goes toward the Congo, past where the most recent LRA activity has been, just for a look. (LRA has gone now)
The plaque in the photo is from in front of a big hole in the ground, only 500 meters from here, near the Anglican Cathedral, The hole was an ammunition dump during the war, being left open as a reminder of the terrible suffering of these people.