Baptism and BBQ at Blue Water

On Sunday, after our normal service at International Christian Church (ICC), we had a special baptism service followed by a BBQ at Blue Water on the SE coast of Efate. 

On our way we called in to see the Family Care Centre run by Marine Reach from NZ. It is a medical clinic for the Teouma area. We know some of the staff through ICC.

The facility has accommodation as well as treatment areas, for short or long-term volunteers, and they regularly host teams through YWAM (Youth With A Mission).

Nurse Anna showed Gloria a room which will be converted into a dental clinic, where Gloria will come and work sometimes.

 A medical treatment room.

 Cool mural in the foyer, painted by a volunteer.

 Back on the main road again and we passed Macses (pronounced Max's) School, a new school run by PCV, where Gloria has been doing teacher aid work and helping to get them set up with resources. The students are very keen to use whatever Gloria brings for them. They only have a bush toilet at the moment and no water tank yet - the staff bring bottles of water for drinking and hand washing (that is, if any hand washing takes place after visiting the bush toilet!)

Once we turned off the main road at Rentapau River, it was a long, rough dirt road to get to Blue Water, some of which looked like this.

But it was certainly worth it when we got there!

Blue Water has a pond set up where tourists can get close to turtles - one of them must have been about 1 1/2 metres long!

There was plenty of fresh sea water flowing into the pond, but still a shame to see them in captivity.

It is a great spot both for having a BBQ,

and for having full-immersion baptism.

Young Rebecca Rowan was one of ten people who declared that Jesus is their Lord and Saviour! Praise God!

We enjoyed a lovely swim BBQ after the service.

Back in Vila, it was time to clean the PCV truck after that muddy road. What a great day we all had.