Warning: This post has a ton of photos. More photos than text, actually. If you can handle that, scroll on.   Day Six was our free day. After a more leisurely start to the day, Kelly and I headed to Old Havana (La Habana Vieja) to explore the city. Havana was founded in the 1500s by the Spanish. […]

We woke up on our last day of work in Havana feeling surprised that it had arrived so soon.   Because we’d “worked out” the earlier neighborhood, we headed to two other neighborhoods for work. I joined a team working in a neighborhood called “Sports Casino” to help launch a church plant that was starting […]

  Day four started like every other day – up early, rushing through breakfast, off to pick up interpreters and on to the church.   Then we had a bit of fun.    It’s always great to surprise team members with a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday – particularly when it’s truly a surprise. Yet […]

Another early morning. And unfortunately very early for the Hayleys due to another “who knew” moment. Case in point: Who knew your cell phone would automatically adjust to Daylight Savings Time even when you’re 1) in Cuba and 2) have the phone in airplane mode? We didn’t know – that’s why we had adjusted our […]

We had an early morning Saturday – up, breakfast eaten and on the road by 8:15. We met our interpreters at Calvary Baptist then headed to our work site. Our four days of work were supporting a church in the Tamarindo neighborhood. The church, approximately 70 members, meets in a home. The owner of the home (standing […]

I’ve somewhat struggled with how to write about Cuba. Our time in Cuba was extraordinary, which means that no ordinary blog post could do it justice. So do I write more or less about our time there? Complicating matters, I travelled to Cuba without a journal for recording my thoughts. I suppose it didn’t matter […]