Trip update

Wednesday Carlos spoke again with Pastor Gerardo in the aftermath of the rest of the Estoreño Presbytery meeting. It turns out that many presbytery leaders have never flown and they are a little skeptical about it. People who might visit us include: Ramiro, an elder and the presbytery treasurer, who has a passport and has been to the United States before (by plane); Gerardo, who has flown within Guatemala before; the president of the presbytery youth and young adult organization (now Roderico Sacul Tiul); and the president of the presbytery’s Presbyterian Women organization (still Maria Coc Tial, who visited with the Crescent Hill mission team in Coban). The fifth person, whom we asked to be another woman, is up in the air, because Gerardo says it would be inappropriate for a woman to travel abroad without her husband – in which case, the fifth person would have to be the PW president’s spouse. At the meeting the presbytery also ordained - and promoted from preaching pastor to pastor - Raul Contreras Tut, of the Altar de Noe church in El Estor. (Contreras was a vocalist and musician whose CD he has given to Crescent Hill folks and whose family hosted Pastor Jane in the spring of 2009.) -- Perry