Hot, Uncomfortable, Amazing and Wonderful Belize
I thought I'd give you a women's perspective on our recent conference.
We arrived Saturday about 5:15pm. The host church had prepared food for everyone attending. They prepared a special meal for those of us that were ministering at the conference. That included the evangelist, his wife and little girl, the Abernathy's and ourselves. They served us Poch. This a chicken broth soup with a vegetable in it. The vegetable was one I had never had before and can not remember the name of it. It was similar to a potato and was quite good. Then we headed into service.
The church was packed. Many people stood outside the doors and windows to listen. I'm guessing there was about 300 inside the building. The local pastor thinks there was about 500 in attendance on Sunday.
On Sunday morning they had a children's service at 8:00 am. Then I taught the ladies. My interpreter had never interpreted before, but she did a very good job. She was interpreting into Cache, since most of the people attending were Mayan. Interpreting from English to Cache is difficult since they do not even have words in the Cache language that mean what some of our English words means. She had to improvise quite a bit.
The "pews" are just wooden benches without backs. You can imagine how you feel sitting on these for 3 or 4 hours. Fortunately, you stand frequently throughout much of the service. Never complain about the pews in your church or I will hear about it and make you come here and sit for a few hours. That will fix you.
It was hot and humid both days, so the inside of the church was sweltering. It got especially hot during the altar service. When we got home, the first thing we did was shower and change our totally soaked clothes.
At the end of the conference on Sunday, the host church served us another meal. This time it was the
standard chicken, rice and beans. They serve rice and beans at almost every meal, even breakfast.
Well, I hope this gives you a better picture of what a service is like here in Belize ......
hot, uncomfortable, amazing, and wonderful.
Carolyn
We arrived Saturday about 5:15pm. The host church had prepared food for everyone attending. They prepared a special meal for those of us that were ministering at the conference. That included the evangelist, his wife and little girl, the Abernathy's and ourselves. They served us Poch. This a chicken broth soup with a vegetable in it. The vegetable was one I had never had before and can not remember the name of it. It was similar to a potato and was quite good. Then we headed into service.
The church was packed. Many people stood outside the doors and windows to listen. I'm guessing there was about 300 inside the building. The local pastor thinks there was about 500 in attendance on Sunday.
On Sunday morning they had a children's service at 8:00 am. Then I taught the ladies. My interpreter had never interpreted before, but she did a very good job. She was interpreting into Cache, since most of the people attending were Mayan. Interpreting from English to Cache is difficult since they do not even have words in the Cache language that mean what some of our English words means. She had to improvise quite a bit.
The "pews" are just wooden benches without backs. You can imagine how you feel sitting on these for 3 or 4 hours. Fortunately, you stand frequently throughout much of the service. Never complain about the pews in your church or I will hear about it and make you come here and sit for a few hours. That will fix you.
It was hot and humid both days, so the inside of the church was sweltering. It got especially hot during the altar service. When we got home, the first thing we did was shower and change our totally soaked clothes.
At the end of the conference on Sunday, the host church served us another meal. This time it was the
standard chicken, rice and beans. They serve rice and beans at almost every meal, even breakfast.
Well, I hope this gives you a better picture of what a service is like here in Belize ......
hot, uncomfortable, amazing, and wonderful.
Carolyn
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