A Day of Worship and Fellowship

We started today (Sunday) with worship at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Ruby, St Philip, Barbados (www.anglican.bb/holytrinity). Father Michael Maxwell is the rector there. He was also one of the Total Ministry Workshop attendees. (He brought us his projector when the bulbs burned out in both the college's projectors; thank you, Michael!) Michael picked up Delia (that would be Mother Delia) and myself, Father Oswald from Guyana, and Father Isaiah from St Kitts. Isaiah (pronounced eye-z-eye-uh) was assigned to Holy Trinity while he was in seminary at Codrington College. Isaiah celebrated mass today.


Inside Holy Trinity. The church is wired! See the video screens at the front above the choir section. There are also video screens facing both directions at the crossing. The words of hymns and prayers are displayed to be sung or read.

Lovely stained glass behind Holy Trinity altar. Fish and flowers are dominant features of this beautiful island. In the lower part of the center pane can be seen the church and its community.

August is youth month. Also during August, the choir is on vacation. Some of the young people led the singing at worship.
Today was Holy Trinity's parish picnic to which we were graciously invited. They had chartered buses to take everyone up to the east coast to Barclay Park.

There were four chartered coaches total. These were some of the people riding with us.

We passed the Emancipation Statue. It is a powerful image! The picture is fuzzy because it was shot through the bus window.

A good time was had by all at the picnic... children playing...

the men playing....

the youth group hanging out together....

It was a wonderful day! We ate local food (great lamb stew over rice), talked with parishioners, and generally absorbed the Bajan (Barbadian) feel of the day.