After the Wednesday night program in the University of Opole, we started Thursday morning with a short tour of the old town district of the city, including climbing 128 steps to the top of a medieval tower overlooking the city.
We then drove on to Jastrzębie (yahs-CHEM-byeh), where VISION X had had the privilege of helping dedicate a church building converted from a barn out in the countryside back in 2002. This time, however, we weren't there to do a concert, but rather to move in for the next two nights in the new dormitory area of a huge add-on, built since that year, that includes a beautiful, large sanctuary.
Our evening concert was in a church in a town called Palowice, on a very rainy and windy night.
Afterwards, we learned that the man who had announced us wasn't the senior pastor. The pastor had had an accident with some kind of tool shortly before concert time, and had gone to the hospital. He was told that he was fortunate not to have lost an eye. As it was, they spent a couple of hours pulling fragments of metal from his eye.
By the time our program was over, the pastor was out and ready to go home. Our host, Jan Tomczyk, arranged to meet him and his wife outside a restaurant along the highway, where we sang a couple of songs for him (since they missed the program). They were both very gracious and appreciative.
That was cool..
ReplyDeleteI think some counted 161 steps though =P
Not that it's important... ;)