The Saturday Feast

At the end of the week we began preparing for the Saturday feast. The church does not have a stove so we asked around about obtaining a couple of burners. Marzina said she had a four burner that we could borrow. Brian said he could arrange to get it to the building. Little did I know that the four burners were Marzina's own stove. Brian arranged for Ann's boys to bring the whole stove to church by way of Jackie Chan, the donkey. If you look at Jackie Chan's head, he has stickers. I guess he was a good boy at Bible class too. In the next picture you can see the apartment size stove in the background. Cindy and I spent Friday afternoon making cookies for the next day. We made peanut butter chews and chocolate no bake cookies. The women of the congregation just had to watch and copy the recipes.

The men cooked 25 chickens on Guyanese charcoal (not like ours). Besides desert and bbq chicken we had American mashed potatoes, fried okra, green beans, fruit salad, and deviled eggs. We even made rice because they almost always eat rice. I think we over did it a little. We served over a hundred people. At least half of them were the children who had attended the Bible class. The chicken was the favorite of all the Guyanese.