Trip wrap up and home

A few pics to wrap up.  Below are the AIDS patients at Genesis Care Center that the church in Marburg runs.  They are given the antiviral meds and then taught a trade so they can live.  The women make beaded jewelry by hand.  Mike bought a bunch of necklaces and a few ornaments.  Each piece comes with a card and is signed by the person who made it.

What amazes me most is that this church is not enormous by our standards.  They run about 800 people on Sundays.  The members truly are invested in the community--healthy, sick with AIDS, white, black, in between, young, old.  They run community centers, youth centers, feeding program, sports programs where Jesus is presented, drug rehab, HIV clinics, AIDS hospital, orphancare, and home visits for sick people.  Really to the heart of the matter huh?  Thousands of dollars aren't spent on new carpet and stained-glass windows, video game consoles for youth to play with so they aren't bored at church.  Lives are being poured out and changed--for eternity.  Cool huh? 

Yes, this is really a house

 This is the beach outside of the little bed and breakfast that is run by a church member.

Here is little man greeting daddy.

Ahhh, the world is right again!