What a wonderful week of fellowship, learning, and encouragement we shared together at Baraka Bible School! With over 100 children, teens, and adults in attendance, we were blessed to welcome brothers, sisters, and friends from Newfoundland, Rochester, Baltimore, Kansas City, Windsor, London, Montreal, Quebec City, Paris, and Cambridge. continue reading

Barbados is a small island in the Caribbean, approximately measuring 21 miles long & 14 miles wide, but with over 80 white sandy beaches and a tropical climate, is a very popular holiday destination for people from both Europe and North America. The sea is warm and turtles can be spotted popping up amongst the waves, whilst on dry ground ‘green monkeys’ are common throughout the island. The capital, Bridgetown, is a busy hub, boasting (amongst other things) a cruise terminal, international airport, a famed cricket ground, the oldest Jewish synagogue in the Western Hemisphere….and two Christadelphian ecclesias, founded originally in the 1890’s. In fact, it is recorded that before brother Robert Roberts left England for Australia because of his poor health, he had previously been invited over to Barbados to recuperate by a Bajan brother. continue reading

While chatting with me a few months ago about our yearly pastoral visit, Sister Cynthia Paiva de Lopez suggested that Brother Dennis Paggi and I fly to Oaxaca this year to meet them there rather than go to our usual destination in the Guadalajara area. Oaxaca is almost as far south as you can go in Mexico, and quite near to Central America. In the last few years, there have been several baptisms of brothers and sisters from the Oaxaca area, two of whom I saw baptized during my visit in 2024: Brothers Emilio and Antonio, father and son. That same year, two sisters from Oaxaca also flew up to participate in the study weekend– Sisters Yolanda and Rocio. Cynthia felt it would be nice to support them all and see if we could generate more interest in the area by holding a study weekend, so we could advertise and by doing some advertising in the area beforehand and to invite interested friends. continue reading