Accompanier Reports

By Stephen Minnema, accompanier in Urabá in March 2019 alongside Jeff Hornbeck.  Two encounters with an ecumenical commission called DIPAZ have bookended our month in Urabá.  We had just landed in Apartadó when our hosts asked…

This accompanier report was written by Stephen Minnema, accompanier in Urabá with Jeff Hornbeck, March 2019. Angustia y Zozobra. These words were used in a report to the Presbytery of Urabá to describe the feelings…

This accompanier report was written by Jeff Hornbeck. Jeff and his accompaniment partner, Steve Minnema, are serving as Accompaniers in Urabá in March 2019. To visit rural Colombia towns like El Tres as accompaniers is to learn…

This Accompanier Report was written by Rev. Stephen Minnema. Steve and his accompaniment partner, Jeff Hornbeck, are accompanying in Urabá, March 2019.  [caption id="attachment_1529" align="alignright" width="189"] "Hacer vida cuando es fácil entregarse a la muerte…

This Accompanier Report was written by Jeff Hornbeck. Jeff and Stephen Minnema are Accompaniers in Urabá in March 2019.  In the small pueblo of Carepa, Colombia, there is a small Presbyterian Church, led by a…

By Lynn Drew Bartlett and John Turnbull, Urabá Accompaniers, July 2018   One senses Colombian pride immediately when the airline pilot concludes his “we are beginning our descent” announcement with “Viva Colombia!” which most passengers…

by Lynn Drew Bartlett and John Turnbull   Within 24 hours of arriving in Colombia, we were in Urabá, immersed in the emotional upheavals of a World Cup elimination match between Colombia and England. Nearly three hours…

By Ann Rosewall and Ruth Hamilton The discernment weekend event I attended in Stony Point, NY, almost a year ago, included a heads-up: you will be asked to preach. I appreciated the notice, especially since…

by Lynn Drew Bartlett and John Turnbull, Accompaniers in Urabá, July 2018 “Dabeiba is more incredible than Macondo,” says Rev. Diego Higuita, referring, with the second place he names, to the town invented by Colombian…

John Wallace & Ivan Herman Pure criminals and murderers— every single one of them.” The taxi driver didn’t hold back his disdain for Venezuelans. “All they want to do is steal and kill. And you…”…