Time is flying by with two days until Christmas and we've now been back from South America for 11 days.
We spent the day before our flight driving to Chicago and learning a lot at the Museum of Natural history.
Fritz continues to be a great travel partner, and we met our area director Greg in New York, for the flight to Guyana.
We met with the national church leadership after seeing the Bible school where space is currently shared with the national church offices.
We heard about the work and their dreams before heading downtown to shop with Angie, a Global Partners teammate, for a Christmas party with the school children she tutors in a community across the river.
We enjoyed a boat ride across the river and walk through the community.
We really enjoyed the food! Lots of different cultures expand the food choices as well!
The party not only included food but game time and gifts.
The kids moved around while we helpers remained at a table each overseeing a couple of games.
Saturday morning after the Friday night party we headed early to a small regional airport for a 1 1/2 hour flight East to neighboring Suriname.
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| Alcoa mined aluminum ore for 100 years near the church property |
We had arrived in Georgetown at night so this flight we were able to view Guyana as well as Suriname from the air...so many trees and fields!
During our short time in Suriname we: met the national church leadership; visited a huge fancy supermarket: a Haitian market; ate tasty Indonesian food; attended church; visited the national (leaf/traditional) medicine and fresh produce market.
The highlights were when we visited a large property owned by the Wesleyan Church of Surinam with an elementary school. The church dreams to turn this into an agricultural site and place to house church camps and visiting nationals returning to visit their country. We also enjoyed a great meal together with leadership at a great Chinese restaurant.
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| Large church property with school |
We reversed the flight returning to Guyana on Monday night. Angie joined us on the trip back to the USA to spend holidays with her family.
We overnighted in Chicago after good flights so that we could pick up Anna returning from her fall term in London.
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| A deep river borders the back of the property |
We then changed focus to preparing for the holidays, and our return to Zambia.
We just sent out a newsletter. If you didn't receive it and would like to please send us your email and we'd be privileged to add you to the list. Due to the time and expense of mailing from Zambia most of our communication for the next 16 months will be by email or texting.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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| checking out some of the church land |
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| Church near Moengo |
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| Aquarium at restaurant where we met with the church leadership |
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| Produce market in the capital |
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