Today, before our final liturgy workshop, we had the pleasure of visiting Bishop Salomon's beautiful orchid garden on his farm. Orchids are native to many Latin American countries, and I have been told that Ecuador has the smallest orchid in the world, as well as over 1,500 other varieties. You can see from the photos that every orchid is different. Each one belongs to one family, but there are small ones, tiny ones, white ones, ones with a massive head, red ones, greens ones, some with a musky fragrance, others with a sweet one, plain ones, some speckled with spots and those with no fragrance whatsoever. How wonderful is the creative mind of God! We have seen the Lord's creative glory even more in the people we have met on this visit, particularly in meeting the different indigenous groups who are part of the church here. We have had the pleasure of sharing the liturgy workshop in four different churches, and every time, we have been struck by how marvellously different each one has run its course, reflecting the richness of variety in the people of God in the Iglesia Metodista Unida del Ecuador. We are so thankful for God's creative mind and grateful that despite our differences, we belong to one body, the body of Jesus Christ. Sandra
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