Last year as Palm Sunday approached, I wasn't as involved in the Nanuku settlement Church as appears to be the case now, but was hugely impressed by what young people of Suva city's Churches did for Palm Sunday. It's blogged on 28 March 2015 if you want to scroll back.
Not to be outdone, we're gearing up in the settlement this year, and here's a snippet of today's song/dance practice in the more than capable hands and feet of Seni.
During a lull in proceedings, Akosita sidled up to me on one of the wooden church benches, clutching a red school exercise book.
'Hello. What have you been up to?' I enquired with a smile.
'Drawing', she said, in the tiniest, mouse-like whisper, and waited expectantly.
There'd been a challenge last week to design a new youth group logo. Not suggested by me: it came from the group themselves. But when asked earlier if anyone had done anything about it, the noisy, vocal ones adopted expressions of beatific innocence, feigned great surprise and immediately chided the person next to them with a thump or two for having forgotten.
Akosita - known as Bui - had slipped out of Church quietly at that point. I'd noticed, but children and young people come and go all the time of their own accord, so that's hardly unusual. On returning a couple of minutes later, she was clasping the red book and she's generously given me permission to share her spiritual sketchings from the last week.
God's at work in the quiet ones don't you think?
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