This is us at the wedding of our old flatmate Serkan, and Yuana. On the right are John and Shirley Bright, a wonderfully wise and generous couple from our church.
It was good to celebrate with Serkan and Yuana, especially as they're both away from their homes (Turkey and Indonesia respectively). It was our first Muslim wedding too, so that was interesting. The Qu'ran was read in Arabic, Indonesian and English, and we all sat on the floor for the ceremony, but in many repects it wasn't so different to most weddings I've been to. (Yuana didn't get to say anything in the Muslim bit of the ceremony, though she did in the civil bit, but she didn't seem to mind).
That same evening we went to a mid-winter Christmas party with our home group. This picture is of our equally wise and generous home-group leaders, Mark and Robyn. They're great, and invite Mothy round to watch rugby when important matches are on!
