• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 04 / 04 / 2011

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Joyce Hento, left, and Cheryl Epp look at photographs from their recent trip to Cuba with a group from Glenview Nazarene Church. -- NEWS PHOTO EMMA BENNETT

Medicine Hat News. The 13 members of the Glenview Nazarene Church who had gone down to Cuba at the beginning of March gathered Sunday with another church group who had been to Trinidad to share their experiences.

The Glenview group had gone down to continue work on a house they had helped purchase and were converting into a church for a local pastor they had befriended.

Toting all kinds of donations, such as sporting equipment and kitchenware, the group headed down to work on the church's bathroom.

"We started the bathroom, though we didn't have time to finish it," said church member Cheryl Epp. "And we painted parts of the church we helped buy."

The project simply couldn't meet completion in time to head back but Epp says finding the right things in Cuba is quite a chore and much of their trip was spent just tracking down what they needed.

"Just to find items for the bathroom, which had to be basically trashed before they started, I don't even know how many stores they had to go to.

"Some things we found easily but others were really tough."It was different from our first time but it was a good experience."

The good news is the group met an English-speaking mason on the trip and have contracted him to finish the job to the exact specifications of the church.

Source: www.medicinehatnews.com/local-news/church-group-back-from-cuba-04042011....