About Us

We are a team sent from North Branch Wesleyan Church to serve in Antigua, West Indies, August 19-25. Follow our experience through this blog and be sure to share comments. We want to stay connected while we're away.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Your VBS Antigua Team arrivedd in Antigua at 10pm and arrived at Ron's at 11:30pm. We crashed and got up early and worked on our invitations to VBS and went out canvassing the area with Rev. Michael. We knocked on doors and invited the children to come and passed out invitations, stickers, and candy. We were very well received and we found many kids who were excited about coming to VBS. We even had 3 boys who came and helped us paint the basement.

We spent the majority of the day painting the basement of the Grays Farm Wesleyan Holiness Church. It was in great need of paint so together our team spent the day painting and sprucing up the place. The basement was dramatically changed! It now matches the colors that are on the outside of the church. It looks AWESOME! Dave Vroman and Ben had many helpers; Nicole, Shelly, Fon, Jeanette, Allison, Jerica, Samantha, Julie, and Rosemary. The basement floor was later painted a reddish color and that turned out great!

Samantha Richardson did the hot, sweaty job of weed whipping the back yard so we could have a place to play VBS games with the kids. It was a very very hot day. But we are all anticipating a great turn out tomorrow and are anxious to see God move and the children learn about Jesus.

Becky Hable and Heather arrived later this afternoon safe and sound and anxious to get started. it was great to see them and have them join our team!

Tomorrow we will begin our VBS and plan on having lots of pictures to share with you!

Rosemary

7 comments:

Charlie said...

Glad to hear from ya's Sounds like you all put in a hard days work.Charlie, Papa, and Dad

Anonymous said...

Hurray! The pictures are up! We'll chat again, Rosemary. I can post photos or a slide show for you from home here.
Chris

Sarah Damaska said...

Hey everyone,
Very cool to read of what's happening already. Glad to hear you had a safe trip down and are all geared up for some time with those amazing kids!
We're praying back here.
Peter.

Charlie said...

The pictures look great.Charlie, Dad, Papa

Sheila said...

Hello to all, Happy to here all is going well. Talked to Rocky earlier and he told me a little of what's going on. I thought I'd try this again. I have you all on every Prayer Chain I could contact from here to Arizona to Wyoming. So I'm sure your VBS will be a huge success!!! Love you, Sheila, Nonnie

Charlie said...

LORI :) "HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAY" LOVE.. DAD

Charlie said...

Hi Shelly & Allison.I miss ya hope your having a great time with lots of FUN and work..Need more pic. or ya, Tell mother she needs to post more pic. of the rest of the gang.

Please pray for ournew brothers in Christ Ivan Adams and John Joseph!!!!!!!!