3 – When Kalanne (finally) noticed Sean #LoveStoryChallenge

Family of Christ Church was the first church Kalanne had visited when she first moved to Middlesbrough three years ago, and she had never left; mainly because her mother had told her there was no perfect church and that if they preached the gospel and lived a life that reflected it, then give them a chance. And she had. Coming from a tedious routine in Nigeria where she had woken up at 5am every Sunday morning to get to church with her family in time for workers’ prayer meeting, then workers’ bible study, then general prayer meeting, then general bible study (all before the service actually started at 8am), and would return home at 7 or 8pm every Sunday (after spending three hours post-service waiting for her mother to finish one meeting after the other, and then making visiting rounds to one ailing widow or one newly wedded couple or a few newborns and their families), she was definitely fine sitting through  an hour and a half-long service and then quietly heading home. Of course, her mother had plenty to say about “being a bench-warmer in the house of the Lord,” but Kalanne was fine just observing, especially observing that blue-eyed Scottish man from the men’s rehabilitation home who wouldn’t stop staring at her.