Talking About the Weather
We experienced quite a "climate change" yesterday, as we arrived back to some cold and damp North Carolina mountains, after 3 weeks of Caribbean t-shirt and shorts weather. It didn't take long for me to get the fire roaring in the wood stove! We are grateful for this opportunity to spend three weeks in Cuba's eastern provinces of Las Tunas, Holguín, and Bayamo, where we visited seven of the Fraternity churches. We were blessed to be able to hang out with groups from First Baptist Asheville and First Baptist Sylva who were there to strengthen ties with their respective partner churches. There is definitely a different kind of "climate change" evident in Cuba these days. The skies are not "fair", to borrow another meteorological term. A growing number of people, especially young people, leaving the island for the greener pastures of south Florida or Texas is taking its toll. Every church is affected by the exodus of leaders and active members. The...