Easter Sunrise Service Looking Out on the Congo River

This is our church at our sunrise celebration for
Easter. We had a great service and a breakfast followed that was a real treat.....like amazing cinnamon rolls. If you look in the background you can see Kinshasa buildings on the horizon. We overlooked the city and prayed lots for the city and for the country of Congo. I would ask you too to pray for this country....for the politicians and statesman to really put the needs of the Congolese first.

This is a picture of our church service and the oldest church building in Congo. It is a Baptist Church and a national landmark in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a simple, beautiful building that has been around since 1900. It has really cool stain glass windows that depict Christ and His disciples in really sweet African style. This building is right across the street from where TASOK use to be and then later had their dorms for students whose parents sent them to TASOK but were on the field in their mission stations. This is a picture of one of the stain glass windows....the cross! Really cool to see the Congolese view.

This is our Pastor Walt Shepard, pastor of the International Church of Kinshasa (IPCK). It was his desire to hold an Easter Sunrise Service looking out over the city of Kinshasa and the Congo river. It turned out to be awesome! We had great weather and an absolutely gorgeous place to hold a worship celebration of Our Lord's Resurrection!!!! While the celebration was going on many canoes like the ones we road in Kikongo were passing by us on the Congo of fisherman out doing there thing.