On the September mission trip to Cuba Gary Cochran presented a clown suit to Pastor Navea for the Martin Perez Methodist Church in Havana Cuba. Jo Grooms, a member of the Listeners Sunday School class, sewed the clown suit. Over 50 children live in close proximity to this curch and the clown ministry in Cuba [...]
My Trip to Cuba First impressions! How many times have I misjudged people or places by first impressions? Far too many I suppose. My first mpression of Cuba was it was a rather poor nation: Most of the buildings and roads in need of repair – Interesting though with all the neat classic cars everywhere. My [...]
Sharon and I had a wonderful experience on our first mission trip. Cuba is a very interesting country with a warm and hospitable people. We felt their joyous spirit of worship when we attended 4 worship services. Our group even mustered the courage to stand in front of the congregations and sing some songs in [...]
One of our tasks while at camp Canaan was to move several hundred cement blocks closer to the point of need. This involve loading the block onto a trailer pulled by a tractor (the tractor needed to be pushed off to start each time) and then off-loaded at the closet point to the need. We [...]
The Cuban mission team returned to Frazer Saturday evening. We all felt very blessed that Frazer allowed us “to go” as the Bible commands us to do. Our team accomplished more construction than we expected we could. But we also had the opportunity to worship in four different spirit filled churches that are [...]
God blessed our team by giving us safe travels to Cuba today. We left the hotel at 5:00 and had a beautiful flight into Havana. We had a discussion with a Cuban doctor at the Methodist Center and then a great lunch. We had a wonderful visit with the spirit filled pastor, Javiar Diaz, at [...]
The Cuba mission team is on our way. We left Frazer this afternoon and arrived in Miami at 9:30 on Wednesday, September 14. We have ten members now, Gary Cochran, Truman and Linda Hornsby, Charles Jones, Bob Scrugs, Sandra Wood, Charles and Sharon Woernle, Kevin Shubird, and Brent Smith. We leave at 5:00 am for Havana [...]
Our September 2011 Cuba missiion team is almost ready to go. The team is led by Gary Chochran and consists of Charles and Sharon Woernle, Charles Jones, Bob Scruggs, Carol Sue Reeves, Truman and Linda Hornsby, Sandra Wood, Kevin Shubird, and Brent Smith. We depart on September 14 and return on Saturday, September 24, [...]