Coffee Plantation and the Freedom Seminar

Two weeks ago we toured a coffee plantation.  Here are a few photos of that time:

This is a cacao plant, from which chocolate is made.  That was just an incidental tree at the coffee plantation.

Amanda wanted to hold the chameleon.  Elijah had told us that we might see one there, so looked for them amongst the coffee tree branches.  He had the funniest feet!

Here is the delicately scented coffee flower.

Our tour guide showed us a coffee cherry, on the left, and then some beans which would then be dried in the sun.

A cautionary sign on a palm tree at a doughnut shop.

After the tour, the destination was South Point again.  This time the water was calm enough to jump into .  For the young people, that is.  One Korean girl wanted to jump, but was very nervous about it, not sure she really wanted to go through with it.  She stood uncertainly at the edge of the Thirty foot cliff.  The more she thought about it, the worse it got.  Finally she agreed to have one of the guys push her.  Not a good idea.  She went in sort of sideways, and did a partial bellyflop.  I watched her land in the water with a smack.

  Elijah jumped right in after her.  This is not actually at the same cliff, but I thought you might want to know what Elijah looks like.  Like a lifeguard!  The girl was finally persuaded to climb up the ladder, but was very sore, and very shaken.  A few days later, I saw her walking on campus holding her side.  Ouch!
After walking around for an hour in the noon sun, I ended up with a sunburn on my shoulders.  Somehow I'd forgotten to put on sunscreen.  Here we are at the most southerly point in the United States.  I'm with Janice and Vern from Trochu, Alberta. 

This weekend no tours were planned to give us Mission Builders an opportunity to attend the Freedom Seminar, a whole weekend event.  Gord Whyte from Kelowna, BC, was the guest speaker.  Topics covered were the 'orphan spirit' vs our true identity as sons and daughters of God, forgiveness, demons, bitter root judgements, soul ties to other people or to things of the world, making inner vows ( I'll never....) and how to renounce them, and our destiny as Christians.  We had lots of opportunities to be prayed for, to learn new things, and to review things we'd known before, but forgotten. The best Valentine's gift ever, that Terry and I got to share in this event together.