It's Re-Alive Day!

"It's Re-Alive Day" as my new found English speaking friend told me as we watched performances on Sunday morning. Easter is 复活节 (fu huo jie) which literally translated means "Resurrection Day". Pretty cool, hu? Well this Easter was much different than others. Due to a national test that almost all of the students had to take, I found myself walking to the fellowship by myself. Curiously, I thought, "I'm going by myself. I dont understand Chinese. Why am I going? I can stay here and listen to a message online and be more encouraged." But I felt the need to go so I went.


After the main/normal part of the sermon the performances started - about 45 minutes of different singing, dancing, instruments. Then it was time for an intermission. As you see in the pictures - Chinese people go all out with performances with costumes/outfits choreography and all. They celebrate at every chance they get - and why not celebrate the best day of the year with performances? I dont know why not.



The women in the top picture nearly blocking the stage are servers. After the 45 minutes of performances it was lunch time. The fellowship served the few hundred people packed in for the service all lunch. I know the Son did it with a few fish and bread loves, but I was still impressed with this little fellowship rolling out so much rice.

I'm sitting about 1/3 of the way back in this picture and each person got a container of rice, some noddles, chicken, potatoes, and other food I dont know what it was. Impressed? Yes!


They also gave us each an egg with a passage or blessing on it. My new friend who came to sit down next to me during the service told me it translated as "Happy Happy Always Happy" but in that translation you could tell there were supposed to be more words with a greater depth to it. Either way, I was blessed by their hospitality and generocity.

To end the day our two teams combined/our mega-team (16 people) combined to have an Easter dinner with American food. (One more reason to celebrate). We divided and conquered.Deviled eggs are usually my specialty (since I know/learned how to make them) but this year Ashley had a special idea for them so we tagged team them.

Can you see the little chicks coming out of their shells?

Ok. Technically the eyes are supposed to be made out of olives. But they dont have olives in China so we improvised with bread crust.

Finally, we ended our night listening to a message and having some awesome w.ship. Some of the girls even did a performance (body worship) to an awesome song. Ironically enough, it was lead by one of our teammates whose Chinese-American. :)

Hope your blessed and knocked off your rocker by His goodness and conquering ability. I have another story about our Boy taking serving roles and performing at a special night with the College Group. But I'll save that for later. I'll leave you with one final thought about Easter:

Easter is the ultimate trump card to death. No matter how many times it strikes, we can turn to this day and say "Nope, see. We still win."

You can find out about our Easter Egg Hunt with students and pictures at I got one.