After breakfast and our morning time of worship and prayer beside the hotel pool, we loaded on the bus for beautiful Antigua for our free day. Antigua is a unique place because it was the Spanish capital for all of Central America from the 1500’s to the 1700’s. The streets are paved with cobblestone, and all the houses still look like they did during the Spanish Colonial times. Antigua very much has a European feel, and you see tourists from all over the world there.
The first thing we did, however, was to minister at a nursing home on the outskirts of town. Mike Lacy, Natalie Hoblitzell and Wendy Phillips led worship and the residents seemed to really enjoy it. Jillian Amos also sang a song in Spanish acapella. The Kirk family did their jump rope presentation too. The rest of the team went around and loved on the people. We also brought blankets, toiletries, and food for the residents.
For the rest of the day, we walked around Antigua, ate, and shopped in the market for souvenirs. Everyone seemed to be pleased with their purchases, and the ones who had never bargained to buy things, were amused by it. Ben Hart even made the observation that the men were quicker to budge on the prices than the ladies were. Pretty astute observation, don’t you think?
Tonight, we finished with our debriefing time. We gathered in our meeting room and each shared their Kodak snapshot of the trip, and then we finished with the Hotseat. That is where each person gets their chance to sit in the middle and have others share what that person meant to them on the trip. It is all positive and affirming. It is a great way to end the trip.
Tomorrow, our flight to Atlanta leaves at 12:35 pm (2:35 pm EDT), and we arrive into Charleston at 9:45 pm EDT. Please pray that everything goes smoothly at the airports, in customs, all of our flights are on time and every bag safely makes it home (not to mention each of us). Thank you!
God bless!
Hal & Lisa
Sounds like it was a great trip of ministry. We are praying for your safe return