Today we attended morning services starting 9am at International Bible Church of Bonaire.  We got there early and sat on the windward side of the church to enjoy the breeze blowing through the building.  The place was full with the regular attendees, then when a group of about 15 (that flew in yesterday for a week of helping TWR) arrived at the service the church was packed!  The pastor’s sermon seemed to us to actually be two sermons.  He started with his comments on Epiphany Day (a January 6 holiday also known as Theophany, Little Christmas, or Three Kings’ Day) which included mentioning appearances of Christ in the Old Testament.  The real sermon was titled, “This Year: Pray”.

There were a couple of rather humorous distractions during the sermon.  A tropical mocking bird landed on the sill of a high open window at the back of the church and started chirping loudly.  It was so loud that it overpower the pastor, even though he was using a PA.  At one point, he mentioned the “competition.”  Shortly after that, a donkey walked by the open windows and doors on the windward side of the building.

After the sermon, the Lord’s Supper was served.  We then stayed for adult Sunday School and viewed a video study from a series on the Holy Land produced by Focus on the Family.

We invited Marco and Vera out to dinner tonight at Captain Don’s on the waterfront, so we ate a light lunch, then spent the afternoon relaxing and working on our blog.

Enjoyable evening with Vera and Marco at Captain Don’s restaurant.

Just before sunset we rode with Reinstras to Captain Don’s and ate a delicious dinner while watching the sunset and enjoying the cool breeze.  Had a wonderful time of getting to know Marco and Vera better.

Sunset did not have its usual red colors this evening

Christmas decorations at Captain Don’s. The tree had lights after dark.

After dinner, I tried to call my mother in Colorado using my computer, only to find out something had changed and Skype would no longer work with my Firefox browser, even after updates.  Skype didn’t work on Internet Explorer either!  After an hour or so of fussing around, Virginia downloaded the Skype app onto her Kindle.  This proved successful!  Later I learned that Skype now only works on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome browsers.  Just what I need–another browser on my old laptop with its limited disk capacity!

The cool wind made it nice for sleeping this evening, but we still kept the ceiling fan on ‘high’ for the times that there were lulls in the breeze.  Every once in a while, I could feel the curtains brush across me.