July 25, 2012

Team Fiji attends church service .....

Team Fiji were honoured to have been invited to attend service at the Wesley's Chapel & Leysian Mission - a church with very strong historical links to Fiji: 

Most of the Missionary who came to Fiji in the early 1800s were Methodist and some from Wesley's Chapel like Rev John Hunt & Rev James Culvert.They could have inspired Chief Seru Cakobau to seed Fiji to the British Crown instead of America.They also translated the Greek version of the Bible to Fijian and Culvert brought the transcript to England to be printed.Mrs Culvert cured the Chief Cakobau of a great illness, and that it was said, made him convert to Christianity.He gave her his War Club to denounce his evil ways and it is now with his plate in the Museum of Methodism at Wesley'sChapel.Wesleyan and Methodism are of the same denomination in religious terms for early Methodist were of the Wesley movements that moved away from the Church of England.A Bust of Rev Culvert of Fiji is in the Chapel at the top right corner to show  what John Wesley said "The world is my Parish".We have come from the furthest part of the world to worship at Wesley's Chapel because we are indeed still in his Parish.

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Team Fiji 

Chef de Mission, Chris Yee, reading Ephesians 2: 11 - 22

Team Fiji with HE Fiji High Commissioner Ratu Solo Mara and Derek and Ana Derenalagi