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ndani kyema, My Story - Ray Moore 118
university, I was able to spend many hours with him trying to nut out some of the
intricacies of Platonic thought,
Some of the people were hard to forget. The mother of one of our Sunday School
pupils in Rainbow was well known as a prostitute. She lived just on the outskirts of
town on the main road. The problem was that whenever I went to visit her, she would
come to the door in her dressing gown. I had some mixed feelings about the young
Baptist pastor being seen going in to the home of someone with her reputation while
she was dressed in her dressing gown, so I used to stand at the front door and talk
with her, resisting any invitation to come in for a cuppa.
At the Abbotsford Church it became important that we knew what had happened to
the Collingwood Football team. We lived in Clifton Hill and our church was in
Abbostsford, both of which were part of the City of Collingwood On Sunday morning,
as I came into the church and looked at the faces in the congregation, I knew
immediately whether Collingwood had won or lost the day before. When we first
arrived in Collingwood, we had been supporting the Hawthorn Football Club, and
consequently Bev had made a jumper for Michael, who was about three at that stage,
featuring the colours of the Hawthorn Club. This did not meet with much approval
when we ventured out with him, so, discretion became the better part of valour, and
we changed our allegiance to Collingwood.The church was situated on Hoddle Street
and the building took up the whole site. It was just another single fronted building in
a line of other commercial buildings. It was getting old and needed repairs especially
to the toof, but the deacons were reluctant to spend a lot of money which they did not
have. However, one Sunday, I was preaching during a storm, and the rain started
leaking into the church at various points. Eventually I had to vacate the pulpit for fear
of having an unwanted shower and I preached from the communion table, along with
some buckets and pans which surrounded me to catch the rain leaking through a
number of other places. The next time it was voted on in a business meeting, the
plan for a new roof was passed unanimously.
university, I was able to spend many hours with him trying to nut out some of the
intricacies of Platonic thought,
Some of the people were hard to forget. The mother of one of our Sunday School
pupils in Rainbow was well known as a prostitute. She lived just on the outskirts of
town on the main road. The problem was that whenever I went to visit her, she would
come to the door in her dressing gown. I had some mixed feelings about the young
Baptist pastor being seen going in to the home of someone with her reputation while
she was dressed in her dressing gown, so I used to stand at the front door and talk
with her, resisting any invitation to come in for a cuppa.
At the Abbotsford Church it became important that we knew what had happened to
the Collingwood Football team. We lived in Clifton Hill and our church was in
Abbostsford, both of which were part of the City of Collingwood On Sunday morning,
as I came into the church and looked at the faces in the congregation, I knew
immediately whether Collingwood had won or lost the day before. When we first
arrived in Collingwood, we had been supporting the Hawthorn Football Club, and
consequently Bev had made a jumper for Michael, who was about three at that stage,
featuring the colours of the Hawthorn Club. This did not meet with much approval
when we ventured out with him, so, discretion became the better part of valour, and
we changed our allegiance to Collingwood.The church was situated on Hoddle Street
and the building took up the whole site. It was just another single fronted building in
a line of other commercial buildings. It was getting old and needed repairs especially
to the toof, but the deacons were reluctant to spend a lot of money which they did not
have. However, one Sunday, I was preaching during a storm, and the rain started
leaking into the church at various points. Eventually I had to vacate the pulpit for fear
of having an unwanted shower and I preached from the communion table, along with
some buckets and pans which surrounded me to catch the rain leaking through a
number of other places. The next time it was voted on in a business meeting, the
plan for a new roof was passed unanimously.
