Hallelujah! We’ve completed a week of hard work with the congregaton at Pilon. Saturday we drove by bus back to Havana. Sunday morning we attended service at the Guanabacoa church where a rapidly growing congregation in bringing Christ to the city’s people. The pastor told us his membership is 550. Two mission churches and 22 [...]
The UMVIM team from Frazer UMC is working at the Pilon, Cuba United Methodist Church with about 10 local stone and brick masons. We are polishing local marmol stone for the church altar and sifting sand to be used for mortar. We are staying at the home of the local pastor, Alcibiades Negret Castro, and [...]
Our team arrived in Havana Friday morning at about 9:30 a.m. to be greeted by cooler, breezy weather related to Hurricane Thomas. We were greeted at the airport by our guide from the Methodist Church, who took us to the Methodist Center for lunch. We are traveling to Pilon on Saturday. We had a wonderful [...]
The Cuba team flew to Miami yesterday, stayed overnight and continued the trip with another flight to Cuba this morning as scheduled. They arrived on schedule and were greeted with beautiful weather. We have yet to hear whether or not the team has an Internet connection in order to give us blog updates. If they [...]
The November Cuba Mission team will be traveling to Pilon, Cuba to repair a Methodist Church that was destroyed by Hurricane Dennis in 2005. We will be one of 12 teams from Methodist Churches throughout the United States that have traveled to Cuba this year under a United Methodist Volunteers in Mission permit. These teams [...]