Last Sunday I intended on going to visit my friend Gade's church. So I turned up on time according to her directions and walked into church to find barely anyone there but a frazzled church leader. She was missing her guitarist (he had gone to Laos) and it looked like it was down to playing bad mp3's for worship so I offered to play. After breaking a string trying to tune their guitar, I even went home to get my own.
Then the congregation arrived- mainly village families from Maejo. The songs were all in Thai and so I only survived playing by having a small boy standing next to me singing and running his finger along the lines so I could guess where the chord changes were. In fact the families were so excited to have a guitarist they kept calling out more songs, so I was originally only meant to play 3 and ended up sightreading 7 songs. And still no sight of Gade.
Finally I finished playing and the church leader prayed "Thankyou God for sending us Pi Jasmine to lead worship for us today even though she meant to go to the church two doors down..."
I thought "WHAT!!! I'm at the wrong church?! And you knew?!!"
Then the congregation arrived- mainly village families from Maejo. The songs were all in Thai and so I only survived playing by having a small boy standing next to me singing and running his finger along the lines so I could guess where the chord changes were. In fact the families were so excited to have a guitarist they kept calling out more songs, so I was originally only meant to play 3 and ended up sightreading 7 songs. And still no sight of Gade.
Finally I finished playing and the church leader prayed "Thankyou God for sending us Pi Jasmine to lead worship for us today even though she meant to go to the church two doors down..."
I thought "WHAT!!! I'm at the wrong church?! And you knew?!!"
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Love it! :)
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