Marsha's Musings: Cuba

Sunday evening we had a pastor speak to us who has been to Cuba four time in five years to teach pastors over there and to speak at youth conferences.  He showed us his pictures and it was very humbling to see it and hear about it.

These people live in poverty, yet don't complain.  Last year many of them were devastated by several hurricanes that leveled their homes and churches.  But they are still plugging along, serving God in spite of these set backs. The churches are growing and the people are hungry for the Word of God.  

We live in affluence and often become indifferent, but there they treasure God's Word and their churches.  The kids will ride for hours to youth conferences in what appears to me to be rigged up recycle bins...the kind that they hoist up on a flat bed truck.  They have cut a door in the side and the place where you put your cardboard and plastics are the windows.  They have welded metal benches inside to sit on.  Now I don't know if they were recycle bins or not, but that is what they look like to me and the kids are happy to ride in these for how ever long it takes to get to the youth conference where they can hear God's Word taught.  

It was encouraging yet heart breaking at the same time to see and hear about this.  It was also convicting to me as I think of how we want our comforts and complain if our chairs are not comfortable.  God help us!