{"id":560,"date":"2014-08-24T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T10:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=560"},"modified":"2014-08-24T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T10:20:31","slug":"nagire-presbyterian-church-port-vila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Nagire Presbyterian Church, Port Vila"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"???????????????????????????????\"<\/a>The Nagire Presbyterian Church in Port Vila, Vanuatu, sends good wishes to Christ Church Anglican Church Swan Hill; I worshipped there this morning.\u00a0 It was a bit hard trying to track down church addresses and times. The Anglican service was at 7.30 in the morning and I couldn’t get an address.\u00a0 Though this one that I attended was supposed to start at 10 am but we were singing choruses for half an hour before the actual service started at 10.30.\u00a0 I took the photo soon after I arrived and the church filled up much more.\u00a0 The band sits at the front and faces the altar.\u00a0I think there were two or three guitarists. The women sit on the pews on the right side and the men on the left.\u00a0 The service finished about 12.30 so 2 and a half hours on wooden pews without backs was quite a commitment.\u00a0 The women all wore the beautiful colourful traditional dresses, and I wish I had bought one to wear. (I had looked at them but with such a range, it was too hard to decide which one to buy). None of the women wore slacks.\u00a0 The men do usually wear trousers but there is a short sarong option called a sulu.<\/p>\n

I felt very much welcomed although I was the only Westerner there.<\/p>\n

The sermon was all about seeking first the Kingdom of God.\u00a0 This was a Bislama language service, but the leaders seemed to move back and forward from Bislama to English and I found it easy enough to get the general idea, though I missed out on understanding the jokes.<\/p>\n

I was particularly looking forward to the singing and I wasn’t dissapointed.\u00a0 The pronunciation of Bislama follows mostly the same rules as Indonesian, so I was able to sing along.<\/p>\n

Here is the Lord’s Prayer in Bislama:<\/p>\n

Papa blong mifala, we yu stap long heven,
\nnem blong yu i tambu.
\nMifala i wandem we olgeta man oli ona long yu,
\nmo we yu yu kam king blong olgeta man,
\nmo we olgeta man long wol oli mekem olsem we yu yu wandem,
\nolsem we olgeta long heven oli stap mekem.
\nPlis yu givim kakae long mifala, i naf blong tede.
\nYu fogivim mifala from ol sin blong mifala,
\nolsem we mifala i stap fogivim ol man
\nwe oli mekem i nogud long mifala.
\nYu no letem ol samting oli kam traem mifala tumas,
\nyu blokem Setan i no kam spolem mifala.
\nFrom we yu nomo yu King,
\nyu nomo yu gat olgeta paoa,
\nmo ol gudgudfala samting oli blong yu nomo,
\ngogo i no save finis. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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