31 Oct 2010 Sunday

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The church meets in a school auditorium. Has great ventilation as long as a good breeze is blowing.

The Sunday morning service at the International Bible Church starts at 9am. The youth had the opportunity to open the service. It was livelier than the usual opening, but it was good. Unfortunately, they were not able to project the

The three young ladies (three row in front of us) really 'get into' the rythm. They are students attending the medical college on Bonaire.

words on a screen as planned, so many of us ‘older’ folk had a hard time singing the words of some of the songs. Sound familiar?! Some of the songs were in the hymnbook and we did fine with those.

Pastor Totoram Baran is an excellent Bible expositor and had been teaching a series on the

Pastor Baran speaking (NOTE the two-tone purple pulpit)

seven churches in Revelation. Pastor Baran grew up in Guyana. He graduated from Guyana Bible College and Biblical Theological Seminary of Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He has been an evangelist, church planter, pastor, and principal. He came to

IBC hopes to move into its new building by the end of this year. It is located about 500 meters north of the TWR studios.

Bonaire after directing a multi-faceted inner city ministry in Newark, New Jersey.

His wife, Felicia was born and grew up in Bonaire and graduated from the Jamaica Bible College. We knew Felicia, as well as some others in the church, from forty years ago.

This kunuku was the last farm we passed on the way to the coast. Wonder what they grow here?!


IBC usually has adult Sunday School at 10:45am, but this morning they were having their annual business meeting. Virginia and I went home, ate leftover Cashew Chicken and relaxed for a while.

These flamingos were in the mud flats across the road from the kunuku.

We then decided to do some sightseeing on the east coast, especially since Hurricane Tomas is brewing about 150 miles NE of Bonaire. The waves should be a little higher than normal. We decided to visit a place called the Blow Hole located about 200 meters south of the inlet to the Lagoen. Also a

The small bay with drift wood and trash at west end

bay, unnamed on any map that we have found so far, located about 1000 meters south of the Lagoen. Neither of these places are marked on road signs, or near roads found on maps, so I used satellite views from the internet to

'Small bay' with big waves

locate the dirt trails (and memories of treks taken 40 years ago).

A big wave enters 'small bay' -- note the big waves crashing in the distance

Waves are also big at the entrance to the Lagoen, but, because it is shallow, it is still fairly calm at the west end. Note waves crashing up the coast looking north. If you look closely (near the upper right corner) you might find Boka Spelonk, the lighthouse we visited yesterday.

A big wave has hit the Blow Hole with little to show for it.

It's still hard to see why they call it the Blow Hole!

After getting back we decided to go for a swim, but this only lasted a few minutes as the waves were about 4 times higher than normal making it hard to keep one’s footing as the swells came in. Also noticed there were still no boats anchored off shore. We heard this morning that

Blow Hole -- 'there she blows'

most boats had moved into the marina to avoid any possible damage that Hurricane Tomas might bring as it passes about 150 miles to the north.

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