How to make it rain

Step 1: Go to church on Christmas day. Even though it's the middle of summer and we're in a winter rainfall area, it will then rain.

Step 2: Go to church on Easter. After a hot and dry time with major drought, it will rain.

Seems I'd better go to church more often if we're to break this drought... :)

Anyhoo, we did have quite a good time at church. We decided to "random attend", picking an unknown from the list in the newspaper. We ended up at an Afrikaans service in a high school hall, with a very enthusiastic worship leader/drama guy, good sermon and even an interpretive dance. My son got to choose where we sat - and plonked us down in the second row from front, leaving us rather exposed and obvious, as the rest of the (very few) attendees sat near the back. Oh well, at least we got a good view of goings-on.

I've come to expect not to be greeted at a new church, and this was no exception - bar the official "welcome to church" lady handing out the bulletin at the door. Not that we're too great at sticking around and waiting to be greeted. We came, we worshipped, we left.

We were planning to attend the sunrise service at the nature reserve, but when the alarm went off at 5:30 and I looked outside, the wind was howling, the clouds were pressing down and it looked like it would be totally weathered-out, so we gave it a skip.

But we went to church. No wonder it rained.