Recovery from September's hurricane has been very slow.  Although electricity was restored in a couple of weeks and stores received food supplies for distribution materials for home repairs have been scarce at best.  Five months after the hurricane the destruction is still visible

Still, the churches in Remedios and Buenavista continue assisting the communities with food, medicines and home repairs.  Overcoming many difficulties they traveled to 25 small towns reaching a total of 500+ children with the Christmas message of love and hope.

Young people also had the opportunity to attend regional meetings to strengthen their spiritual lives and get to know youth from other areas. In October 125 youth leaders attending special training.  And both young men and young women had special conferences for them.

February 16 - 21 we Oscar, Rachel and Kevin Kurzenknabe will be in Cuba to visit small churches in north central Cuba to see how we could assist them in bringing God's love and hope to their communities.  February 21-24 Eric and Carol Smith will join us and lead a Pastors' Conference for 50 pastors in the region.  Pray that we will discern and follow the path God has set for us in Cuba.