Hawaiian Sunset
Marlene has been looking for a perfect Hawaiian Sunset since we arrived and whil
e not perfect, the attached pictures may be as close as we get. The whole process in these attached pictures took only about four minutes, and that will shorten by December 21st, when the sun reaches the southernmost part of its journey.
We took a drive to Lahainia today. It is a former whaling town on the west coast of the island. Marlene thinks there are unique shops there, Ralph thinks the shops in one town are the same as the next. Another volunteer couple from High River, Alberta (Joe Clark country, but not fans) went with us, so it was a nice afternoon, on our half day off.
I went to Rotary at lunch today and we had a speaker from Maui Economic Development. A startling statistic that she passed on was that only 16% of the population was born and raised here. No wonder I have been having trouble finding these people. One of thier goals is to retain their culture and with so few natives, it makes you wonder how successful they will be.
The facility here is very busy this week with visitors. Some 40 are expected including senior employees from Head Office in Atlanta, board members from various countries and major
donors. There are two Canadian directors expected, one of whom I understand is a retired VP of CIBC.
One of the two classes in session is giving their regional presentations this week. They segregate the 50 participants into five regions of the world, and each as a group give kind of a "SWOT" analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) on their area of the world as it relates to evangelism opportunity. They discuss population, politics, religions, culture, hindrances, etc. While you only get the perspective of the participants that are here, there is a question and answer session at the end of the presentation and these can be very
revealing. There is a participant here from Jordan, and he was questioned extensively about the situation in Iraq. On the other hand some of the discussion is very lighthearted, such as a participant from Nepal who explained that his country is squeezed by the two most populated countries (India and China), is very mountainous, but if you unfolded the mountains, Nepal would be four times bigger than the USA.
e not perfect, the attached pictures may be as close as we get. The whole process in these attached pictures took only about four minutes, and that will shorten by December 21st, when the sun reaches the southernmost part of its journey.We took a drive to Lahainia today. It is a former whaling town on the west coast of the island. Marlene thinks there are unique shops there, Ralph thinks the shops in one town are the same as the next. Another volunteer couple from High River, Alberta (Joe Clark country, but not fans) went with us, so it was a nice afternoon, on our half day off.
I went to Rotary at lunch today and we had a speaker from Maui Economic Development. A startling statistic that she passed on was that only 16% of the population was born and raised here. No wonder I have been having trouble finding these people. One of thier goals is to retain their culture and with so few natives, it makes you wonder how successful they will be.
The facility here is very busy this week with visitors. Some 40 are expected including senior employees from Head Office in Atlanta, board members from various countries and major
donors. There are two Canadian directors expected, one of whom I understand is a retired VP of CIBC.One of the two classes in session is giving their regional presentations this week. They segregate the 50 participants into five regions of the world, and each as a group give kind of a "SWOT" analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) on their area of the world as it relates to evangelism opportunity. They discuss population, politics, religions, culture, hindrances, etc. While you only get the perspective of the participants that are here, there is a question and answer session at the end of the presentation and these can be very
revealing. There is a participant here from Jordan, and he was questioned extensively about the situation in Iraq. On the other hand some of the discussion is very lighthearted, such as a participant from Nepal who explained that his country is squeezed by the two most populated countries (India and China), is very mountainous, but if you unfolded the mountains, Nepal would be four times bigger than the USA.
posted by Ralph and Marlene Robinson at 6:39 PM
1 Comments:
The photos are great. I'm learning that it's difficult to take a photo that matches what you have in mind when you have an uncooperative subject (be it baby or sun!)
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