Visitors, "invites" by our members, continue to appear nearly every Sunday, a good indicator that our church members are proud and glad to be part of our fellowship. Attendance has been unusually good this summer. In spite of some off Sundays, we have been in the mid-eighties and nineties many Sundays. Two weeks ago, July 25, our local attendance was one-hundred and three. Furthermore, present that day was a missions team made up of four churches from KY/OH. They pushed our attendance to the one-hundred and thirty-four mark. It was a standing room only crowd. After church everyone enjoyed an outing at the beach where we munched down one-hundred and twenty hot dogs plus all the trimmings.
This missions team did a fine job working in the neighboring city of Mayaguez. Under the auspices of a Baptist church they painted a public school facility that was in dire need of some TLC.
Two weeks from now another group will be coming to Aguadilla to work with us. We have a couple of projects lined up. This group is the basketball team from Asbury University in KY so in addition to the tasks we have in mind, they will be giving a basketball seminar at a private high school in the area.
Earlier this month a good number of our people climbed into a big yellow school bus to attend the annual "Flower Festival" in the mountain town of Aibonito. I think we all came away happy, tired and certainly a little poorer with flowers/orchids we probably didn't need. A week later, the young men of the church traveled to the wildest wooliest part of the island to spend a day caving, swinging on grapevines over ravines and checking out ancient Indian petroglyphs.
This coming Sunday is Promotion Sunday for the kids at church and then the next Sunday is Friendship Day. We are gearing up for a grand occasion and a fine attendance for both events.
God bless. Thanks for reading.
Johnathan and Mary
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