Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Christian Pastor's funeral

I attended the funeral at our church of a retired pastor who was actually the president of the Japanese SDA Conference quite a few years ago.  Above is the pianist and a lady handing out flowers to put on the table in front of his photo.  He had been cremated a few days before in a private family ceremony.  Below are the people in line to place flowers and then to give their condolences to the family.  He had 3 grandsons who were friends of my youngest son.
Below shows the full church.  My husband's parents are sitting below.  Father-in-law was part of the program as he did a shigin number that was written by the deceased.

Too many people for inside the church so I sat outside with some of the church ladies.  It was rainy and cold but we had a tent and space heaters.

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