First Contact

Pastor Sauce and Reverend Roy were 2 wealthy American pastors.
"I want to hold a prayer meeting in a space station," said Pastor Sauce. "The devil is the Lord of this world and the prince of the air. If we hold a prayer meeting out in space, we have escaped from his influence." Pastor Sauce and Reverend Roy sat in a room they had hired for 2 days on Space Station Europe 5. With them was a famous Christian singer.
"My name is Sandra Ratcliffe," said the singer, "so the record company call me Sandy Ratty. We are going to spend 2 days in prayer and fasting -"
"Fasting?" asked Reverend Roy.
"Yes," said Sandy Ratty. "We didn't come all this way just to pray normally. The devil is Lord of this World and Prince of the Air. We are above his domain. And we are going to be worshipping the Lord and fasting. What country is that you can see out of the window?"
"There's a few countries," said Reverend Roy. "I can recognise Ghana and Nigeria."
"What should we pray for them?" asked Sandy Ratty. Pastor Sauce produced a big thick paper backed book called Operation World.
"We'll find out all about them in here." Pastor Sauce read a long list of facts and figures about Nigeria and then Ghana. They prayed with great enthusiasm. For many hours this went on. Using the Operation World book, the prayer group prayed for all the countries they could see going past the window.

 

It was four o' clock in the morning according to Reverend Roy's watch. An alarm sounded in the spacecraft, interrupting the prayers with a deafening noise. A voice came over the tannoy.
"Space debris, space debris. This is not a drill. Prepare for impact. A large piece of metal is heading towards us at high speed. We are trying to use our electrostatic engines to manouvre the space station to avoid collision. It seems to be following us. Lie down on the floor. Prepare for impact." They all lay down on the floor. They felt a loud bang and the space ship shook.
"What's the damage?" asked a voice over the intercom.
"Nothing," said another voice. "A spacecraft has docked with us. Radio Mission Control and ask them if they were sending anyone. This is not on the timetable." Back in the prayer room everyone was standing up again. Pastor Sauce looked at Sandy Ratty with a knowing smile.
"I prayed that if aliens existed we would meet them," he said.

Some silver skinned creatures came into the space station. One of them spoke to Pastor Sauce.
"I am Judicious," said the alien. "We are the descendants of Anak. We are Anakists. There was a huge asteroid heading towards our world. God told Anak to build a big spacecraft 5 miles long which is shaped like a pencil. The animals went in 2 by 2. This was 3 billion years ago. We've been travelling right across the universe at almost the speed of light for billions of years."
"If you've got that kind of technology," asked Pastor Sauce, "why didn't you destroy the asteroid?"
"We hit it with a nuclear warhead," said the alien, "but it fragmented. 3000 pieces of rock and ice the size of football stadiums. The water was poisoned. The tsunamis that followed when those fragments hit the oceans travelled hundreds of miles inland. The pieces of rock caused huge craters in the ground and resulted in earthquakes and volcanoes. The fumes from the volcanoes blocked out the sun. There were no survivors."
Pastor Sauce explained, "Our scientists heard an unidentified signal on a radio telescope. No one has ever understood what it was. It came from a galaxy 3 billion light years away."
"That was our distress call," said the alien. "Just to inform anybody who happaened to be out there in the cosmos that the disaster had happened and that we were on our way. We're farmers. We would like to live with an agricultural community on earth."
"I know just the people," said Pastor Sauce. He picked up his computer tablet. "I have a Skype friend in a Christian community on Earth." The alien looked surprised.
"You're Christians." he said. Sandy Ratty replied,
"Yes, we are Christians. The 3 people who are praying together in the little room are Christians."
"Hello David," Pastor Sauce said to his Skype friend. "This is Space station Europe 5 calling Earth."
"No it's not," said his Skype friend. "This is a joke."
"No it's true David, look around, it's a space station." said Pastor Sauce.
"I've seen better special effects on a 50 year old sci-fi film," said David.
"Here's the alien," said Pastor Sauce. David burst out laughing.
"That is the worst costume I have ever seen."
"No David, this is real. These creatures have been travelling for 3 billion years from another world that was destroyed by an asteroid. They're the descendants of Anak."
"We are Anakists," said the alien. "We are farmers. We would like to live in an agricultural community on earth."
The picture of the Skype friend disappeared.

 

The alien had a bottle of blue wine. "We will celebrate communion together. This is natural blue wine, made with blue grapes from our space craft." Sandy Ratty led them all back to the prayer room. She took out a glass. The alien poured the blue wine into it. The alien explained, "On another planet, 3 billion light years away, 3 billion years ago, there was another Jesus and he had blue blood."