Choir Tour Updates:

Joyful Worship and Nature's Beauties Make a Happy Sabbath

(The President's Page Blog is pleased Clement Morton and Rachel Slaunwhite have agreed to submit regular updates as CUC's choir tours and performs through eastern Canada.) 

Today was Sabbath! Praise the Lord we got to sing praises to Him, eat great food, and visit with good friends. 

Our day began with all of us crawling out of our warm comfortable beds, at the homes where we had been billeted. The people here in the Halifax area are absolutely awesome.  They are wonderfully hospitable and we could not survive without them!

 

After breakfast we made our way to the Crossroads Wesleyan Church where we sang our best concert yet!  The Sandy Lake Academy Choir joined us to sing Joy In the Morning and it sounded absolutely spectacular.

The lunch that followed was so bountiful and amazing that you simply could not make it to the end of the serving table before your plate was overflowing.  The church was completely packed!  It was so full I think we could hear the nails coming out of the walls. Some of us could simply not find room to sit down and enjoy our meal!

 

When we boarded the coach after lunch, we were greeted by a sight we did not expect.  Our driver of the last few days was wearing a kilt! He was dressed just like a Scotsman, which, it turns out, his ancestors were!  Being from the Halifax area, he was full of wonderful facts and bits of information that fascinated many of us.

 

Our first stop Sabbath Afternoon was Peggy's Cove where we spent the majority of our day of sightseeing. As we gathered by the lighthouse the smell of the salt and the laughter of children filled the air as we posed for a picture.  We wandered around the area, jumping from rock to rock, listening to the sound of the ocean as the winds dashed the water into the blackened rocks along the shoreline.

 

We drove around looking at the houses and other inlets in the area and ended up at the Peggy's Cove Museum which has free admission on Sabbath due to being owned by a Seventh-Day Adventist. The museum is a small house that was once just a regular house in the neighborhood until its owner, Ivan Fraser, found inspiration in a photograph he took of a huge wave at Peggy Cove. The local legend, in a nutshell, is that many years ago there was a shipwreck and the only survivor was a young girl who was rescued after the waves carries her onto the rocks in the cove. She could not remember anything about who she was or where she came from, not even her name. It was pointed out to Ivan that it looked as if there was a lady in the photo. So Ivan set out to transform the exterior of his house into a wonderful landscape of Peggy's Cove and make the inside look just as nice with all his amazing paintings and photographs as well as a few artifacts and antiques that he collected from the villagers.

 

Later Sabbath afternoon we headed to the Fox Point Church to have a supper consisting of fresh fruit salad, muffins, popcorn and drinks.  After this we headed to homes for the night. It was a full day of fun, frolic and friends. Thank the Lord we were able to spend the Sabbath in such a relaxing and enjoyable way.