Blood spatter and chop
by Johan van der Klooster, missionary worker
On Sunday afternoon, October 30, I stood in the schoolyard waiting for visitors from The Family House. Most people were already inside when a car stopped in the car park. Two people got out. One of them I recognised immediately. The other didn't. It was a girl in a white costume with red (blood?) splashes on it. In her hand a (plastic) hatchet. On her face red and black spots. As they came closer, I knew they were mother and daughter. Mother called out sort of apologetically that they had gone straight on from the riding school. And at the stables they had 'celebrated' Halloween. I had already suspected there was something like that going on. 'Glad you're here,' was my response. 'Come on over and have a drink!' And so we went in together.
After coffee, I told the story of the Lord Jesus addressing and sending away an unclean spirit. You can read it in Mark 5. After this story, we sang a song. 'My God is so great, so strong and so powerful, there is nothing He cannot do.' I couldn't suppress a smile when I saw the dressed-up girl singing along at the top of her voice. God ís so big and so powerful!
Reprinted with permission from volume 3 number 6 of Encounter, the missionary magazine of the Meeting churches In Capelle-Schollevaar.
