Good Friday

This morning our team met at 9am and then we drove up to the apple hill. It's a pretty good sized hill which has loads of apple trees on it. This hill is a place where a lot of us go, when it's not freezing cold and windy like today, to get away and get some exercise. The hill overlooks Marghita, this picture can show you from how high. Still though, we headed up today (just in cars instead of pe jos ) in order to understand more Jesus' journey to the Garden of Gethsemane the night He was betrayed. I picked a different version of scripture (ESV) and pieced together the night in the Garden, His trials, beatings and crucifixion from the 4 gospels. After printing those out I handed it to different team members to read. We stood in a circle and tried to keep warm - it was so cold and windy! Being 'out' of Marghita, being outside, hearing the words of what had happened...I don't know, it was really powerful for me. We then sang a hymn "Where you there?" and took communion. I had asked each to be quiet after taking communion and remain silent until back down into Marghita. Again, it was something to hear just silence... My Dad, who's a pastor, always did this same thing at all of the Good Friday services that he led when I was growing up. I guess the tradition grew on me!

Most of Romania isn't celebrating Easter this weekend. Even my church in Oradea won't celebrate until April - they all follow the Orthodox calendar. Just the Hungarians celebrating with 'us' this weekend!