McKenzie Belize Adventure

For now, things have slowed down a bit for us. Yesterday, Craig drove about an hour and a half to teach a Bible school training course. While he was gone, I took the opportunity to do some serious cleaning in our new place. I did a lot of yard cleaning and indoor house cleaning. I’m not sure why, but cleaning the house is easier when your spouse isn’t around. That is, until you need something heavy moved. :>).  Craig did some more Bible school training in the village of Mango Creek.  Mango Creek is about an hour south of where we live. Once these nationals are trained, they will be able to teach these Bible school lessons also. This will really help to stabilize and grow the work here in Belize. Tonight the Abernathys went to the village of Bladen, which is also about an hour south of our place. The church there is installing a new Ladies Leader in their church. We were not able to go unfortunately. By the time Craig got back from his teaching session, we would not have h...

Sunday, 7 January was a bitter sweet day for the church here in Belize. We buried Rev. Tribio Coc, age 70. Rev. Coc was a dedicated church planter, preacher, mentor and great leader here in Belize. I believe he planted 18 churches. He was a highly esteemed and respected man of God. Below are some pictures of his “going home” service. Picture #1 is Rev. Diego Coc, Rev. Coc’s son. He is singing as he leads in the pallbearers and flag wavers. I did not recognize the song they were singing, but you could feel a beautiful spirit of praise and worship to God as they brought the casket up to the front of the church to begin the service. Picture #2 The church was packed to capacity and many had to stand outside. We estimate that there were about 500 people in attendance. Many people stood in the center aisle and along the walls of the church for the entire 3 hour service. Picture #3 This is Tim Steele speaking during the service. He was a great friend of Rev. Coc’s, and flew all the wa...

We celebrated our first Thanksgiving here in Belize this November. Our missionary friends, Dwayne and Linda Abernathy invited us, along with 4 of their neighbors over. One of the neighbors, Nancy, was able to find a nice turkey which she cooked up for us. It was so moist and yummy. We also got to meet some neighbors we had not need before, Jim and Becky. I’m going to try to post some pictures of our Thanksgiving day, but we have been having trouble getting pictures on our blog, so we’ll hold our breath and see. We had all the traditional trimmings, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, etc. The only thing we were missing was cranberry sauce. Nancy, the other neighbor that was there, did prepare some, but accidentally left it on her kitchen table. Now Nancy loves cranberry sauce, so we are suspicious about her claim to have “accidentally” left it at home. Every time she smiled for the next couple of days, her tongue was a suspicious shade of pink. You will have to come to your own con...