Wherever we are in the world, we always try to get to church on Sunday. A quick search on the internet revealed the presence of an Anglican church in Thessaloniki.
They meet in premises owned by a German congregation on the first floor of a commercial building and are visited once a month by the Anglican chaplain in Athens. The rest of the time they run their own service and take turns leading. Today's sermon had been downloaded from a church website in Ireland and was read to us by Theo, the lady whose turn it was to lead today. We all sat around a table for the service, as you can see in the picture. Tom played the electric organ and we sang from Hymns Old and New!
The setup made me think of the early churches founded by St Paul, who must have operated in a very similar way (though they couldn't download sermons!) We were made very welcome.
They meet in premises owned by a German congregation on the first floor of a commercial building and are visited once a month by the Anglican chaplain in Athens. The rest of the time they run their own service and take turns leading. Today's sermon had been downloaded from a church website in Ireland and was read to us by Theo, the lady whose turn it was to lead today. We all sat around a table for the service, as you can see in the picture. Tom played the electric organ and we sang from Hymns Old and New!
The setup made me think of the early churches founded by St Paul, who must have operated in a very similar way (though they couldn't download sermons!) We were made very welcome.
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