More Church Buildings

I continue to have some difficulty loading multiple pictures to my Blog, which is why these three are presented separately.

Churches In and Around

A week ago Thursday I was asked if I would speak the next day to the Friday evening Youth Group at one of the other churches. If I’d thought a bit I probably would have declined, because going would mean softball practice at 2pm, our own Youth Group at 5:30 and then dashing off to their meeting at 8. But theirs is the largest youth group in the area and I’d been wanting to visit, and the pastor said, “Just share what God puts in your heart”.

Well, God put in my heart to talk about how living the Christian life is, in so many ways, just like playing baseball. There were about 45 teenagers there and most of them listened most of the time. Then we organized 5 games of Bible Baseball, all going at the same time in the same room, each with an adult umpire. It got to be extremely competitive, but good fun.

While most of the young people come from Punta Gorda Town, their church is about 7 miles out in the country, and with our van (temporarily) out of action I had taken a taxi out. Their pastor drove me back in a truck jammed with girls and as we dropped them off we went to parts of PG I’d never been near before.

Here are pictures of some of the church buildings in PG Town itself (Continued next blog, I hope.) If nothing else, ours has to be the prettiest!

Fun With The Youth

Proof that the rainy season is really here came in the form of some minor highway flooding. On the way back from a quick trip to Belize on the James Bus Line to deliver a couple of our children to summer camp we came to an unscheduled stop on the way into Mango Creek. Ours was the low-lying express bus and the driver didn’t want to take it across the flood so all those going to Mango Creek got out and transferred to a regular Blue Bird school bus We backed about ½ mile down the road, turned around and went our way, only to be stopped again by a second flood. This time the rest of us transferred to the higher-riding bus, eased our way through the flood and on to PG.

This sort of thing is fairly common in the rainy season and has some advantages over being stranded for two days in a snowstorm, which has happened to me back home (actually in New York State).

We paid for five children to go to camp but only three actually made it. The camp will certainly appreciate the extra funds.

The day before at our Youth Meeting we had taken a few pictures and the kids said I could post the silly picture as long as I posted the "good" one (I think).

HAPPY CANADA DAY, EVERYONE.

Oh, what a beautiful day!