Barbados is one of very few Caribbean islands where the beach week and the church history are not competing plans. Anglican and Methodist heritage is visible across the parishes, and a parish church dating to the sixteen-hundreds sits a short drive from a resort on the calm west coast.
For a ministry family that finds a pure beach week slightly uncomfortable — and many do — that combination solves something. There is somewhere to go on the morning when lying still stops working, and it is a fifteen-minute drive rather than an excursion.
Highlights
- Platinum Coast beaches on the calmer west side
- St John’s Parish Church, dating to the 1600s
- Anglican and Methodist heritage visible island-wide
- Direct flights from major US East Coast cities
Best time to go: December–April; hurricane season runs June–November.
