COUPLES DINNER

I brought the table cloths and the red centerpieces from the States

Fabian and Alejandra are part of the core group

Francisco and Luz are attending church

Gardy, Paola and Nazareth also attend church

From left to right Luis Carlos, his sister-in-law and her husband

View of the beach

The whole group

Sunset

Sunset

John and Isabel

As you can see from the above pictures, dinner was at a beautiful setting in a restaurant right at the beach.  The couples started arriving at four o'clock to enjoy the sunset. They all took a lot of pictures. Dinner was delicious, and we also had great service. They went out of their way to make it a pleasant experience. I had also brought a craft for the ladies. We made hearts bracelets. We played two trues and a lie. The game took place right after dinner. As usual, we had prizes for one man and one woman. Then, I had a short talk about 1 Corinthians 13. I went pretty much verse by verse, but explained that this chapter is about agape love. The message of the chapter is thinking about the other person above oneself. After the talk, we had dessert and gave the prizes. We were out of there at about 7:30. The restaurant closes right after sunset, at 6:00, but we had special reservations until 7:30. One advantage of having this event at a restaurant is that we were not tired at all.

Today John preached at both churches. As we were about to leave home, the pastor called to tell us that he was not going to be at church today. I have mentioned before that she just had female surgery, and even though she is healing fine, he was taking advantage of the fact that we were here to stay home with her. We found K and her mom and brother walking to church, so we took them with us. Paola had already arrived and was sweeping. Her little girl was dusting the chairs. John went to pick up F and his family, but found them already half way. John talked about Habakkuk, "How long, Lord?" After the service, we took F and his family home, along with the two workers, 6 total, home. Then we drove to the third town to pick up all the people who live there and attend the second church. The pastor does this Sunday after Sunday, plus preaching. We were 13 altogether, plus a baby, going on the first trip, but John had to turn around for a second round. This is the church that meets under a tin roof and four poles. It is not bad as long as there is a breeze, but today it was extremely hot, I felt a little lightheaded for a while. This group has a guitar player and loves to sing a lot. There was a little three-year-old boy with a toy guitar that somebody made for him who sat next to the guitarist, watched him carefully and imitated him the whole time. John did much better the second time. I guess practice makes perfect. 

We had to reverser the process taking everybody back home. John says that you literally have to bring people to church so that you have somebody to listen to you preach. I sat with the second group under the hot tin roof and chatted while John went back and forth.

We arrived home at 1:30 to cool off, eat a little bit, and rest. Tonight we are having dinner at Paola and Gardy's.

Until next time...from the beach...