We can all get along together......

Doctor Guma drives me to Coligny, in the Northern Archdeaconry, where we are met by Archdeacon Ngidi; another very impressive self-supporting Archdeacon. We see St Michael and all Angels in Coligny, then St Barnabas in Lichtenburg and finally St Andrews also in Lichtenburg where we finish with a 6:00pm communion with some spectacular sensing. I’m introduced to 92 year old Mr Taylor from St Barnabas church, a church for whites and coloureds, who was a lawyer in Lichtenburg all his working life. What an amazing meeting of different life experiences as this wizened white Afrikaans speaking Mr Taylor welcomes these five priests – three black, one coloured and one white - to his room in this complex for older people. He has clearly throughout his life been generous towards the black population even when this has caused criticism from his fellow whites. We then move to Maisy de Klerk’s house for a delicious lunch. Her parents lived in Scotland and she too is a member of St Barnabas Church. As the time comes to leave she asks someone to pray for me and then, whilst shaking my hand, says with restrained emotion in her eyes; ‘See we can all get along together’.