The International Bible Church was packed for the morning service due to all the people coming for the transmitter dedication on Tuesday.  Pastor Doug’s sermon was titled “On a Mission” with the text from Acts 1:1-11 and Matthew 28:18-20.  The command is to ‘make disciples’.  Our witness (testimony) is “not a burden to convince, but an opportunity to share”.  At the conclusion of the sermon, the mockingbird of about three weeks ago was back and chirping loudly.  Pastor just looked up at the bird in the high window and said it was saying ‘amen’, ‘amen, and ‘amen’ and everyone chuckled.

We visited for a long time after church and then made our way across the main road to Buddy Dive and their restaurant called Blennies.  There must have been about 60 TWR people and guests there for the buffet lunch.  The buffet included Barracuda fish and kebabs of chicken and pork with rice, corn and other side dishes (our table was the last to go through the line, so there was not much selection left), plus dessert of cheesecake.

After lunch, we had just enough time to go to the duplex to change into more comfortable clothes then head to the airport to pick up Ralph and Mary Jane VanderWerf.  We took them to Eden Beach Resort where they had reservations only to find their room would not be available until 5pm.  Since they had not eaten since leaving South Bend at 6am, we looked for a place for them to eat.  First we stopped by Captain Don’s to be told that only pizza was available before 6pm.  Since they’d had pizza last night, we ended back at Blennies where they were able to get some sandwiches.

By the time the sandwiches were eaten and we had finished visiting, their room was now available.  We dropped them off for the evening with the understanding that they would walk the short distance to the TWR office for devotions in the morning.  That’s where we would meet them tomorrow.

We made the 15 minute drive back to the duplex for the evening.  I used Virginia’s Kindle Fire to make our weekly Sunday evening call to my mother in Colorado.

About 9:30pm the young men (who all arrived on flights this afternoon) staying in the bunk bed room of our duplex arrived back from their evening meal with Steve Shantz (TWR VP of Latin America and the Caribbean).  Andre is from Brazil and Jehiel is from the Dominican Republic.  Esaban, from Uruguay is staying in the other duplex with Steve and Jason.

We headed to bed just after 10pm this evening.