Perfect Setting for a Country Church

Vineyard Church. Nine months before this photo was taken, last February, this church was conceived.

Children playing in the cassava grove beside the church.

View from a pew.

Della meets some of the children.

The pastors of Vineyard Church in their home behind the church.

In Some Way Life in the Philippines Reminds Me of the Wild West

Seatbelts? What are seatbelts?

Ride that bamboo.

Feeding the Children at Piersite

A New Church Building for Open Heaven

Dave, Della, Pastor M and Thata inspect the foundations of the new church.

At night someone sleeps on site to ensure building supplies don't mysteriously disappear.

Blessing and Being Blessed at Open Heaven

Have you ever seen a more delightful group of children?

A Piece of Paradise

The logical name for a church in a location such as this? Open Heaven.

Carrying a Block of Ice

I don't know how far he has to go, but he's walking fast.

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Favourite Sport in a Nation of Short People?

Basketball…of course!