This is Nancy writing. This April I am going with an orchestra group to Cuba. The country is very poor, but as the US
starts relaxing travel restrictions we hope that money that tourism brings into
the country will actually benefit the people. As things currently stand, we
will be traveling on educational visas.
They allow us no more than 25 visas per trip, and we are still waiting
for approval. We will be working with local musicians, teaching workshops,
continuing to build relationships started on other trips, and giving
concerts. I am going as the sound tech,
and will also be doing training sessions.
Sometimes groups bring sound or musical equipment and donate it here,
and as happens in our own little church here in Mexico, there is often good
equipment that is not being used or maintained properly, because someone has
just figured out the basics on their own, and doesn’t really know how to get
the best out of what they have. I also
bring a unique perspective of service and worship to being a sound tech, which
is hard to find among the personalities that are generally drawn to technical
ministries.
I ask for your prayer support for my trip. This is the first
time I will have gone on a music trip without Walt. I ask for prayer for good
Spanish, for love for the people I will be working with, for health, and for
physical strength (sound equipment is heavy!)
Walt and I try to budget for at least one music ministry trip each year,
and are joining a group to Curitiba, Brazil in the fall. While I feel that the
Lord is telling me that I am supposed to go, this particular trip is not in our
budget. If you would consider helping me
with the cost of the Cuba trip, which is about $2,000, not including the cost
to get to Miami (the meeting place for the charter flight), and the cost of the
visa, you can click this link https://www.globalmissionsproject.com/givetoparticipant.php
, enter GMP-238 (Cuba) under Project, and my name under Participant. Thanks, so much, for being one of our blog
readers! We try to share our lives a
little bit with you, and hope you enjoy knowing what we are doing in
retirement. We sometimes think that God
hears the word “retirement” and says, “Oh, you have new tires? Let’s go for another 50,000 miles!”
