So, I want to do things differently.  I get tired a lot.  Who doesn’t right? I’m sure you may be tired even right now! Well, my new goal is to make sure I’m tiring my self out over the right stuff.  Sometimes I’ll see a pile of ants running around on the ground.  They’ll go …

Sometimes around Christmas parents will ask me for gift ideas for the students that can be something positive for their relationship with Christ.  So, I thought I’d compile a list of items that could be ideas if you wanted to get your student a Christian CD or book.  Here are just some suggestions, if you …

Jesus once said to man, “You’re worrying about the speck in your friends eye, when you have a huge piece of dirt in your own!”  Okay, maybe those weren’t his exact words…but, you get the idea.  Jesus was speaking about how easy it is for us to judge someone else, when we have our own …

Today was a powerful day in our Trinidad experience. Here are a few words from Derek: Today was awesome. The team started the day off at the Rebirth Center, a facility setup for recovering drug addicts who have been addicted for at least ten years. We ran a morning church service for the patients. It …

Words from Zack: Today we visited an orphanage called Hope Centre. Before we arrived, we were told that many of the children there had been sexually abused by someone in their family. They had been taken from their homes and the parents were not informed in where the children were. This was definetely a different experience …

Internet was down yesterday.  Here is a post from yesterday:   Words from Sarah: Hi there!! J  We’ve had a lot of fun @ VBS the past few days. We made picture frames today, but when you have 80-some kids under a small tent when it’s raining trying to do a craft, it gets very …

.gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } .gallery img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Today we had our third day of VBS and we …

Banana Zack and Sarah This is our tent where we hold VBS during the day.  Here, Jessica and Whitney are leading the kids in camp songs.  The kids love tooty tot and Go Bananas! Words from Lauren:   Today was very exciting because we had so many children. I got to sit with a group of …

Jessica at the Orphanage Today was our first day of VBS at our location in the city.  We were pretty busy so I didn’t have many of pictures of that time.  But, afterward we went to an orphanage and we got more shots of that.  This one with Jesssica shows three of the girls and …

Team at the Hindu Temple We made it!  We arrived yesterday at about 8pm and spent forever in line for customs, but we arrived with out a hitch.  The compound is only minutes from the air port.  So, we got in to the compound just as their 3 hour Sunday night service was coming to an …