Taranaki Mission Weekend

This photo was taken from my host's kitchen window - spectacular.
This is the marae that we beautified
This was the Corps Social - a lot of fun...
This was the Sunday service drama
This is all of us and our friends from Stratford Corps

We had an awesome time in Taranaki at Stratford Corps... we had great fun on the drive up and back and we had a great time with our hosts, where we were billeted out to, although they hardly saw us because we were on the go...

We started at the Marae early on Saturday morning with the powhiri and then got straight into beautifying the marae and getting to know the marae folk.

On Saturday night we ran a social for the Corps folk and had great fun with game shows such as "Are you smarter than an officer?", "the big quiz" and "the generation game" and of course, my team won.

On Sunday, we ran the meeting and had a very powerful drama with monologues of Salvationists from 100 years ago to today and then the corps put on a great feed for us.

Then it was time for us to go home...

But we got to know the Stratford folk and they are a great bunch of passionate people, young and old with a fantastic corps officer who visited the Faith Factory a few weeks ago - Major Maureen Ashton.

It was a blast and none of us will ever forget the people there and their loving hospitality...