Intercultural fellowship

Today is Sunday the 19th of March and normally there would be a lot of hustling and bustling at 5am but this morning, no such thing occurred. Summer break is upon us and 90% of the Akha orphans have gone home to their villages for summer break. Therefore, it is rather quite and dead throughout the compound. Of course, I bless God for the break especially since worship was altered due to the few members of bodies. When 8:30 rolled around, I headed over to A-Je and Nancy's house along with one other staff member to gather for a personal and revised church service. All those in attendance where A-Je, Nancy, their two sons Zion and Silas, myself, Ameh- the staff member, A-Je's niece Buti, and a friend from China. We started out with a few songs, and then went around the circle explaining our "life verse" to the group. A-Je took the leadership initiative and had each of us, once stating our verses, give three bullet points in following up with our statements. He then proceeded to ask us to give verses to back up those points we were making. It was rather interesting, the whole study which lasted three hours, because at one point Nancy leaned over to me and pointed out that there were four different languages present: Akha, Thai, Chinese, and English. Along with this, we each had our Bibles in our own language! Who would have thought that you could have such an in-depth time of study with that many languages! God is amazing, is He not!? Towards the closing of the self-made service, Buti- A-Je's niece, said that when we as Followers of Christ gather together for fellowship, it should always be based from the Bible. She did not mean when we come together just for specific Bible Study but whenever we are among each other, we converse with the Bible as our main focus, with Christ as our main focus. What is the point of idle time spent together? What eternal value is there in that? We need to have a Kingdom focused mindset when we speak as Paul refers to several times in Ephesians 4:29/ 5:4-5/ 5:19-20.