What are you doing here?

Our family arrived in Rockhampton in late 1985, just in time for me to finish grade two in a third school. Dad started leading the church services and preaching at St Stephen's immediately, as a "licentiate".  That basically means that he had completed theological training at "The Hall", but that he hadn't yet been ordained or "called".

Sunday 30 March 1986 was Dad's first Easter as minister of St Stephen's.  The church was packed.  Some ministers would have been glad, or flattered, or impressed.  Some.

After this sermon, most of the Christmas-and-Easter crowd refused to come back to hear the "crazy Dutchman" again, but some came back the very next week, and stayed.

The texts for the service were:

• Mark 16:1-13 (sermon text)
• Luke 24:13-27 (sermon text)
• Psalm 16 (not on the recording, but referred to)

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