McKenzie Belize Adventure

We will be getting ready for a big church dedication in the Trio village tonight. There are 4 ministers from Texas that have come to Belize for the dedication. These men and their churches helped purchase and build the Trio church. We were able to have dinner with these ministers and the Abernathy's the other night. A couple of them are pastors and one is a retired missionary that was in Africa for 25 years. We will get pictures of them tonight at the dedication. We were finally able to get our grass cut today. Notice I did not say "lawn". Our yard is hard packed sand and dirt with lots of grassy tufts. Craig hired a couple of Mayan men to use machetes to cut down the grass. That is hard, hot work! Almost everything that needs cutting here is done with a machete. There will be a group of men out in a field cutting the whole thing down with their machetes. Craig and I priced weed whackers and the cheapest one we found was $450.00. They do not have summer garage sales h...

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...

Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25 we had the Stann Creek District Conference in which eleven (11) churches participated.  We had Noe Barrientos from Guatemala come to minister.  Carolyn  was able to teach the ladies at the conference.  There were over 400 people who attended the event. We had an evening service on Saturday in which 23 received the gift of the Holy Ghost. On Sunday, there was a children's service followed by the Ladies service and then the main service.  Another 13 people received the gift of the Holy Ghost.  I took a group of people to the river where 8 people were baptized.  It is a great setting to go to a river to baptize people.  The work is growing here in Belize.

Saturday, June 24th we dedicated another church building in the village of San Isidro.  A many of the churches in the district came to the event. There are a number of projects completed, a few soon to be completed and a few more to start.  Being we are into the 'rainy' season, it will make completing a couple of the projects more challenging.

Thought we would share a few random notes today. To our surprise, there was a tugboat pushing a small commercial vessel thru the lagoon yesterday morning. One of our 'welcome' house pets is a gecko lizard.  The picture below is our gecko on the wall just above our bed who just ate two bugs inside the house. One of the challenges we have are 'roaches' in the house.  Carolyn prepared a special 'treat' for them.

This afternoon Carolyn said, we need to get a picture of this.  A cloud formation was below the mountain range and in view from our outside deck.

We have another church building under construction in the village of Santa Ana.  One of the village roads was a 'must see'....... so I stop the truck to get a picture for you.