Monday, October 19, 2009

St. George Church, Cochin





Friday evening and again Sunday morning we visited St. George Church (of St. George and the Dragon fame--note the statue).

It is in an area where the Christian community is very old. The cross by the street is very old. They have saved a sanctuary that is at least 500 years old and next to it built a large church only 5 years old (the old church is shown on the edge of the photo at the right of the new one).

The new church has incredible stained glass windows depicting salvation history. Pictured is the window of Jesus feeding 5000. It depicts his disciple passing out the food. I picked this one to show because my most popular contribution to the workshop was teaching the song, "Five little loaves and two little fish" based on that story. It was a big hit as most of the participants work with children, and they love to sing.

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