Free Will Baptist International Missions News: E-TEAM St. Croix

Last Day ;(

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Today we are sad to say this our last day on the island.. we are going to miss all of our new friends. We are finishing up a little bit of work at the church and painting the elementary. Our flight leaves at 4:20 this afternoon, we have a layover in Miami ...

Planting seeds for Jesus

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Today we went to a neighborhood to plant trees. We planted about 30 trees for different families in the community. It was a great outreach opportunity to plant seeds in their heart. We're about to have a crab boil for lunch! Some of the team have neve...

Just another day.

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Today some of us girls gave Rejyna Beck and another family from the church a good time to themselves by baby sitting their kids all day, then some of us went to that family's house and did some chores for her, the boys did some yard work for a man in ...

The Young and the Restless (haha!)

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Last night we went to the Harbor Mastor's Buffet a.k.a paradise! it was super beautiful! today we have already cleaned the basement/hurricane shelter at the elementary, finished organizing books in the library, picked up tree limbs, and helped destic...

Today

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Everyone is great. We have seen some of Gods most beautiful creations and today we fed the hungry at a local homeless shelter. Tomorrow we have hiking and pier jumping and work around the church....

Fruit trees

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Hey families we are well. today we are going to a fruit market and then going to pass out flyers for the Church/School fruit tree ministry. Then we are going snorkeling. Yesterday we worked very hard all day around the church and school and it looks great....

Our first day on the island

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Yesterday we took some time to tour the island, it was very beautiful. We went to the ocean, drove around some neighborhoods, went to k-mart, grocery shopping, and walked around christiansted (one of the towns here). Last night Pastor Kent took us crabbing...

We made it

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

We made it. Sorry its taken a little while to post. We had some plane delays and got in late. Internet connection was down due to a storm. Everyone is great and we had a good night. We will post some pictures and more tonight as we tour the island today....

We made it

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Work Hard-Play Hard-Sleep Hard

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Hello from all of us here on E-TEAM St. Croix. We want to apologize for not posting anything on here until now. We have been trying to upload Video Blogs from the students but we have been having technical difficulties in the states and here in St. Croix. ...

Training Week

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Arrived in Nashville going to classes and doing many interesting activities with our Team! We are all both excited and anxious about our trip. Our flight leaves at 6 a.m. on Monday, please keep us in your prayers....

Preparing to Depart

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Well it has come the time that we knew would come. In just a few hours we will depart from our field of ministry for the last two weeks. What an adventure it has been with so many opportunities for ministry. Our time here has been great and we have so ...

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We have been busy with work and ministry here on the island. The days are winding down but we still have several opportunities left for ministry. We have had a great time here on the island I will let the team tell you about all our experiences. K...

Clearing up a matter

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I need to give an explanation about a picture that appeared on our page. The picture is of a beer umbrella over the tables where we ate with Patience in the picture. This the place that we ate when people went through our things in the van. I apologi...

Pictures that tell the story

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Here are some of the pictures from different events. The first 3 are from Children's Church in the church. 2 are from our prayer walk on Saturday at the place where the car show would be on Sunday. 3 are pictures from where we passed out f...

A lot going on here

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We have been busy since our last update. We begin the phase of our ministry here on Sunday during services. It was Father's day and they recognized the father's in the service. Sunday afternoon the team called their dads and wished them a happy f...

A lot is happening in St Croix

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

There is a lot going on in St Croix. It is not just a vacation place for some to come and enjoy. Things are busy here during Summer break from school. We actually are working. Some thought we were on a big vacation since we only had pictures of sightse...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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Involved in the work

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We made the flight from Miami safe and sound just a slight delay. The Nelsons and the Becks met us at the airport and carried us to the school where we would be staying. We have had to learn to adapt right to start with. Before our arrival there was a...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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Enroute to the Field

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

We left Nashville this morning at 6:15 enroute to St. Croix by way of Miami. We are sitting in the airport waiting for our connection to St. Croix. We finished a tremendous week of training. This services were the best that I have experience. The conce...

Preparing to serve

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Wow! What an experience! This is the word and thought that comes to mind. We started our journey on Wednesday and what a journey it has been thus far. We have certainly been busy in preparation for our field of ministry which is St.Croix. We have learned...

Training Week

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT

What a week! We met our team and had supper with our parents. Then we went to the Opening Ceremony. We had a tremendous worship service with all the teams and had a great challenge from Sarah M. We then said goodbye to our parents. We had our first experie...

Last day :(

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Today is our last full day on the island. It is bitter sweet. We are all ready to go home, but we don't want to leave because we had a lot of fun here. We finally finished the school today and got to see the new carpet in. It looks 100% better than w...

Sunday

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Hey everbody, we had an awesome time yesterday at the family night. We were all afraid that no one was going to show up because it started to rain. It rained for a good hour or so. We were all scared that it was going to be canceled. Thankfully, some kids...

Saturday

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Hey everybody. We are really sorry for not being able to post anything the last couple of days. Our internet was down. Here is a quick update of the last couple of days. Wednesday, we worked all day long. We usually just work until lunch, but that day ...

Technical Difficulties

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Sorry, we're having problems with the internet. We'll try to get more up tomorrow. If you would like to see more pictures of our team you can go to our picture gallery ...

God at work

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Tonight after our team meeting we started to sing, and it was amazing. God was definitely in that room. We could all feel his presence at one point or another. It was just so amazing to be able to sit there and just praise God with a group of people who a...

Another day at work!!!

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Today was hard for some of us. After hiking all day yesterday and going to bed late, a lot of us were really tired. We did finish painting two more rooms, and we ripped up some more carpet in another room. So we did get a lot accomplished. Hannnah had the ...

Sunday

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Today was a good day. We started the day going to church. The church service was amazing and definitely not what we are used to. The music was amazing. The people were so energetic about everything. It was just great to see people who are so excited a...

Saturday!!!

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Today was a very relaxing day. We didn't do that much, but what we did do was fun. We started out making the baskets for the pastors. We are going to give those out later in the week. After we were done making those, we worked on our singing for awhil...

Another great day

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

So today was a pretty good day for everybody. The girls stayed back at the church and did some cleaning because they are having a wedding tomorrow and they needed some stuff done. The guys went ahead and went to the school, by the time we all got there the...

Second day

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

We have successfully survived two days on the island. Everybody is still in one peice and doing great. We worked very hard today and finished tearing up the tile and carpet at the elementary school. Everybody has blisters or some type of sore on their hand...

First day at work

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

So the frist thing I want to say is that God has blessed this team so much. Kent Nelson the missionary here let us sleep in this morning which was such a blessing. After we ate, we went to the elementary school to start working. Some of us tore up tile so...

first day

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Hi, I guess the first thing you want to know is that we made it to the Virgin Islands safely. We had a lot of adventures! We woke up at 3 in the morning, and we were at the airport by four. We got on our first plane and landed in Miami at around 9:10. We w...

Day before we leave

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Hi everyone! We are having a great time and are all getting along very well. We are all very tired. The nights are long, but we are all making it. We usually wake up at around 6:30 am and go to bed at around 11:30 pm so you can all imagine. Besides being v...

Hello, Goodbye

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

It feels as though we just got here to St. Croix. It's hard to believe that two weeks have already passed! Everyone has had mixed feelings for the last few days. We're all excited to go home, but we all have a part of us that would like to ...

The Team is Doing Great!

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Good night!(the traditional greeting after 6pm here on St.Croix) This is Monica, aka team leader. Our updates are usually written by our resident journalist, Crystal, but I decided to write today's, because I wanted to brag on your kids. Parents, y...

Hannah lost Jessica!

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Today was started off with some good fun soccer with some of the local kids! Some played soccer while others played games such as Scattagories. That was a good way to start off the day!! Afterwards we all helped clean the bathrooms at the school. Onc...

Another Update

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Yesterday after writing the update we all continued to work and clean. After working until about 2 we all got to go to the beach (which was Heather's first time to go to one!). A few of us had our snorkel gear with us and got to see some neat things...

We've made it at last!

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

We've made it at last! Actually, we made it on Tuesday. Both flights went very smoothly and well. Monica and Crystal even had a chance to witness to a former Jehovah's Witness that said he was 'in between'. They invited him to churc...

Training Week

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT

What a week! Our schedules have been packed with several activities and things to do. The first night we all ate dinner. Following that we then went to the Chapel for a service that James Forlines spoke at about missions. Like I said in the beginni...