Paihia

Paihia (At the filleting bench)

Paihia

Paihia and Russell in the Bay of Islands.

“I talk to people everywhere I go and they make comments like, ‘you are an evangelist.’ My response? ‘No, I just love Jesus,'” writes Todd White in the article called “Possessed by Love.” (The NZ Baptist Magazine, v. 131, no. 4)

My destination yesterday was Russell in the Bay of Islands. Before 1844 Russell was called Kororareka. Captain Cook counted 144 magnificent islands.

The legend of Kororareka:

Korora is in Maori the blue penguin and reka is sweet. “Ka reka te korora,” said a Mari chief after drinking the broth of a penguin. He was wounded in a battle.

Arriving in Paihia I had to jump  on a passenger ferry to Russell, because there is quite a bit of water between the two places. A return ticket is $12.00.

The highlight of the trip was actually meeting a German again in Paihia and talking to him again about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Russell

Russell

Russell