This document is a travel diary from a trip to Cuba in May 2015 by a group of 14 people. It describes visits to house churches, meetings with pastors and church members, cultural sights like a sugar cane farm and city square, and the ordination of 5 pastors. The diary contains many photos taken during the trip depicting scenery, people, architecture, and art.

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2. Cuba
May 2015
Group of Fourteen

3. Monday,
May 18

4. Dinesh, born in Liberia, Hindu until 2004

5. Manuel Iglesias & Terry (New
Zealand passport) Maiava

6. Paige Abrunso, Nuclear Engineer & Equestrian

7. First photo of Cuba

8. Cuban Airport Terminal

9. Our Transportation

10. Sculptures in Water Pool at Hotel

11. Elevated Walkway and Stairs at Hotel

12. Sculpture in Swimming Pool at Hotel

13. Outside Stairway at Hotel

14. Cat in the rafters

15. TUESDAY,
MAY 19

16. Hotel Pool and Ocean Lap Pool

17. Cabinets in Mario’s home

18. Interpreter Mario’s daughter as a young girl

19. Interpreter Mario’s backyard

20. Paige Loves Small Children & Small Animals

21. Paige Abrunzo, Kathryn, Anna Simon, Mary Ann Loeffler

22. Mary Ann Loeffler, Yae Rojas, & Mario Luis Diaz Rojas
(Interpreter)

23. Treadle Singer Sewing Machine

24. Bird cage in Mario’s house

25. Vendor and customers

26. Horse, Cart & Driver

27. Cuban House Church

28. House Church “Christ Reigns”

29. 50’s Car, Common in Cuba

30. Front of House Church

31. Elizabeth Interian, Another Intrepreter

32. House Church Bulletin Board

33. Allison Janosz, Maria and Dinesh Mahtani, & Paige Abrunzo

34. Cuban girl at house church who served beverages to our group

35. Jehova/Pastor Tapestry in House Church

36. House Church Pastor and family

37. Pastor’s Motorcycle parked in front of sewing machine

38. Railroad

39. Marisol’s House Church
(widow of Pastor Filipe)

40. House Church benches

41. Plaque
Plaque
Plaque

42. Sugar Cane Farm Equipment

43. Truck with “Deer” on the door

44. House Church Bulletin Board

45. Front Of House Church Room

46. Carved Wooden Insect

47. Jeremiah 29: 12-13

49. Tractor and wagon

50. Plaque

51. Cuban pastor, Mario (interpreter), Tony Loeffler,
Pastor Peter Bruno

52. Interpreter Elizabeth & Anna Simon

53. Plaques in House Church

54. Children’s Sunday School Display

55. Fan near ceiling

56. Gifts: Toothpaste (Cuban “White Gold”), Toothbrushes, Clothing etc.

57. Fountain

58. Cuban countryside

59. Allison and Paige on teeter-totter

60. Restaurant where we ate

61. Plaque

62. Hotel bed with decoratively-folded towel

63. Wednesday,
May 20, 2015

64. Painting House Church

65. Cuban money—Pesos and Centavos

66. Interpreter Elizabeth & Cuban lady

67. Cuban moon

68. Postcard showing Cuban capitol buildings

69. Thursday,
May 21, 2015

70. People at presentation
on church planting

71. Steps to third floor

72. Stadium Lighting

73. Deck Railings

74. Glass Art

75. Trailer on end

76. Friday,
May 22, 2015

77. Rooftop water tank

78. Joan Mallette in foreground with others from team and Cubans

79. Marisol, widow of Pastor Felipe

80. Pastor Peter Bruno, Metro Church in Waldwick, NJ

81. Joan Mallette in foreground w/Marisol

82. Elizabeth interpreting for Anna Simon

83. Note from housekeeper in hotel

84. Towel Elephant

85. 50s Chevrolet car in Cuba

86. On Car Radiator Grill

87. Saturday,
May 23, 2015

88. Inside View “Taxi”

89. Transportation from 1st hotel to 2nd hotel

90. View from 2nd hotel atrium

91. Chandelier

92. Metro Church group w/Pastor Peter Bruno (yellow shirt)

93. Another of the cars taking part of
the group to the second hotel

94. Final Transport car

95. Art work in 2nd hotel complex

96. Onyx Statue

99. Stone Statue

101. Painting

102. Painting

104. Acrobats

105. Another artwork: notice no smiles

106. More of no smiles!

107. Iron Work Art

108. Arches

109. Fountain in hotel complex

110. Purple Leaves

111. Lunch

112. Toy cars for sale

113. End View of Second Hotel

114. Embassy Row
Embassy of Malaysia
Tower on Russian
Embassy Property

115. Windy but tree already bent

116. Sunday,
May 24, 2015

117. Mario, Dinesh, Peter

118. Photo through window
opening in wall

119. Photo taken through open
window
Three hands joining through
window during ordination
Sunday Ordination of 5 people

121. Ordaining a Cuban pastor

122. Also standing on the shady side

123. Historical?

124. Sisters
Big sister,
Stephany Rojas
Little sister,
Katharine Rojas

125. Pedi Cabs

126. The Capitol in Havana

127. Interpreter, Elizabeth

128. Aquarium in Restaurant

129. Monday,
May 25, 2015

130. Church in Old Havana

131. Dancer painting

132. Locomotive display

133. Display of wooden toys

134. Hand-held fans

135. Paige Abrunzo with carriage horse

136. Buildings on edge of square

137. Recycled aluminum can art

138. Anna Simon & Sally Aldahondo

139. Spanish children’s dictionary

140. October 1929 National Geographic Magazine

141. Horse in harness

142. Colorfully costumed Cuban ladies

143. Cuban Catholic cathedral Bell in bell tower at left

144. Handmade dolls

145. Anatomical studies circle & square

146. Leaving sight of Cuba

147. Clouds enroute to Miami

148. Over Florida

149. Spoilers deployed