Sunday, June 18th 2006
Sunday at Norwood (Adelaide)06/18/2006 09:35 PM Location : Coach en route to Mildura
We are currently on a bus heading from Adelaide to Mildura on Monday, June 19 and we had a marvelous day at Norwood Corps yesterday. Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide and was our host for our visit over the weekend.
On Sunday morning we reported to the corps at 10:00 am to prepare for our 11:00 am worship service. 10:00 am was a bit of a late start for the corps since they normally have Junior Soldiers and Corps Cadets before their service. But those activities were cancelled for the day. At 11 about 190 people gathered in the corps for our worship service together. Lt. Colonel McLaren preached and we had a great time together. It is always a blessing to be together with fellow Salvationists on a Sunday morning.
Following the service we were joined by a majority of those that attended the service for a lunch of chicken "on the barbie", roasted potatoes, peas and apple slice with ice cream for dessert. We're certainly not going hungry on this trip!
At 2:30 we had a "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon" concert which was basically a concert. I thought the hall was full on Sunday morning with 190 people present but they were able to squeeze in 300 for the concert with Salvationists attending from other local corps but as far away as Brisbane.
Because of the afternoon concert Norwood had cancelled their usual Sunday evening meeting and we had the night off. Many of our host families made arrangements to combine with other host families for tea and/or some final Adelaide sightseeing. Some of us made it out to Mt. Lofty to look out over the lights of the city and were also able to see the Southern Cross constellation which we don't get to see in the Northern Hemisphere. It was beautiful to see but it was cold and windy out there!
It was funny to see the koala crossing signs on the road up to and down from Mt. Lofty. That's something else you don't see in the States. Sadly, we didn't see any koalas. It made for a relaxing evening but we had an early (7:00 am) report time to look forward to on Monday so most didn't stay up too late.
We did hear that the US is still alive in the World Cup having tied Italy 1-1. The Australians were excited about the Socceroos having beat Japan earlier in the World Cup but no one really expected them to beat Brazil who is ranked #1 in the world. Sadly, their expectations were met as Brazil won 2-0. But they are still alive too and only need to win their next match to proceed to the group of 16.
Since Sunday was Father's Day in the USA we were sure to wish all the fathers in the band a happy Father's Day. Four of us fathers are fortunate to have at least one of our children travelling with us on this tour. So, we did take a picture of the eight of us together, just like we did when we visited Korea in 2003.
Finally, to all of the folks in Adelaide, especially those at the Norwood Corps, the CSB thanks you for hosting a marvelous time this weekend. To Major Daddow, Major Shellenberger, CSM Ross Tate, Bandmaster Harry Matear and Lindy Tate along with all of the many others that played a part thank you very much.
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