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!