Half Day Wednesday

Our second Wednesday and I did a Rotary make-up at the same Club I visited last year. Marlene joined a bunch of ladies going shopping - no surprise there, eh!

The speaker at Rotary spoke about the homeless situation both here on Maui and Hawaii in general. We have noticed some tents/makeshift lodging in our travels, but nothing to the extent the speaker outlined. The local Rotary Club is getting involved in the whole affordable housing issue for the island. It is a formidable undertaking because of the cost of housing here. Median price for a single family home is mid US$700m. So there is a wide descrepancy been the haves and have nots.

We had a Pool Dinner and Praise Night on Monday. Once again the Africans got the place rocking! The picture with the large number of people is the African participants. The Bible says you are to use your whole body to praise the Lord, and the Africans have certainly mastered this. Because there is a double class graduating, there are currently seventeen participants from the African continent. The size of the stage didn't allow them to get moving too far, but they sure sang and moved as much as possible. The other picture shows two particpants from Cambodia, one from Viet Nam and one from Thailand. Convocation is tomorrow night.

The couple on the beach are Ed & Agnes Balzer from High River, Alberta. Ed is a retired Teacher/School Administrator. Since retiring, Ed has served for three years at a Christian School in Budapest, Hungary; and five years as an interim Pastor at a church in Alberta. They are serving here at Haggai for a third time and they were here with us last year. Something else unique about this couple is that their son is pastor of their local church in High River. So the son has a standin when he needs pulpit supply.

(Well Blogger ate Ed & Agnes' picture so I will post separately?)