UPDATE FROM HAVANA July 10

From Ellen Bernstein in Havana:

The day from Reynosa to Tampico was LONG; our folk worked beautifully with the longshoremen in Tampico, and the loading of the containers was finished at about 3:00am...

We were welcomed by many friends at the airport when we arrived here.

Sunday morning we visited seven different churches; Rev. Lucius Walker was at the William Carey Baptist church, Father Luis Barrios at the Episcopal Cathedral and Rev. Tom Smith at a Methodist church in Marianao -- all preached beautifully about "faith in action"; others in our group visited Ebenezer Baptist Church, and a Catholic and Pentecostal church.

Our people have been weary after a long journey, but inspired and excited by what we've seen here; there's been lots of time to meet and dialogue with young folk here. More soon.