Day 2 of Our Trip- SUNDAY!!

Woke up this AM to church bells at 6 am then at 7 am.  They were beautiful. Then we went down had breakfast and started our day with Hank reading us some neat devotionals and stories. 

 

We walked about 1 mile to church this morning and on the way I was overcome by the irony of what I saw. 

In the area of Belize City we are staying, there is beauty and devistation living side by side.  The buildings and homes are so diverse and you can have a beautiful new building/home right next to one that is in ruin..

The irony is below, as we walked it has been raining and some of the trash had been washed away, yet it is still everywhere we looked. Yet this one man was walking along cleaning the street. 

One man trying to make a difference, although none may notice, his heart knows. 

This is how I feel about what missionaries and each of us as individuals can do, in a world surrounded by trash, we are doing what we can to make a difference....

Even if no one else notices, our hearts know.

We went to Church at "Remar Belize"

remarinternational.org

"we work particularly in the areas of most poverty, with the most needy: abandoned children, children suffering from AIDS, single mothers who are homeless, young people without education, drug addicts, alcoholics, families which have been harmed or broken due to the effects of different addictions, the elderly, etc."

 We were privileged to be a part of the church service this morning. It was such a wonderful experience for many reasons.  It is a spanglish service. Which means if the preacher or person is speaking in Spanish it is translated by the pastors wife to English.  If they are speaking in English she translates it to Spanish. She stands in the back of the church and translates after each sentence.  It was amazing and easy to understand. 

Rick and his wife Pat spoke to the congregation. Pat shared an amazing life story that brought many tears and touched so many in the room. The music was amazing and was in English and Spanish!! 

We were able to hear peoples stories of struggle and pray for them. Many of  the congregation are in a drug/alcohol rehabilitation  program run by Remar, or are a family member of someone in it. 

It was really moving.

We stopped for lunch for a traditional Belize meal at "Dit's" 

Stewed Chicken, Rice and Beans and potato salad.. YUM!!!
We had coconut tarts for dessert!!

Relaxing on our hotel balcony sharing the stories we heard that day!!

Heath and Amanda our missionaries

We bought bananas for breakfast!

There are many stray dogs.  This one has been following us since our trip to town yesturday, where Amanda fed it some wet dog food. It was outside the hotel this am, followed us all the way to church and she fed him again, and it was remarkable, we came out of church and within one block he was there right along side us again.
We have named him  Caleb.

We went to a 7 pm church service at AGAPE church . It is a conge\regation of Belizians.  It was so fun.  The music was amazing, young girls sang for about an hour then, a few girls in theoir 20's went up and sang more.  The church was about 800 sq ft and packed to the rims, theybelix\ve in dancing and praising God out loud.  It was a great expierence.