A Long Awaited Visitor

''JOHNNY!!!''

Our team shouts as our compassion dts co-leader arrives at the ariport. Each of us dressed in the finest aparel we could muster up to greet our long awaited visitor....   

Here we are at the St.Croix airport

Back at the YWAM base

These are the lovely  faces and outfits that were Johnnys first impression of St.Croix, and he still got in the van with us!

  Our outreach leader Josh was given the opportunity to speak at the St. Croix Christian Church on sunday before Johnny arrived and he did an incredible job of bringing Gods heart to his people in the church.  He was really getting into his preaching. It was like a different side of him was coming out that we hadn't seen before. But it was totally God moving and doing a great thing in the church body here in St. Croix. We as a team truly believe that God is going to start something here and revival is coming. We have been praying for it along with the rest of the believers that we have talked too. We were called here for such a time as this, and know that God is doing a great thing here in St.Croix!!

Josh preaching

  Johnny spent Sunday through Thursday with our team. Throughout the week he did one on ones with all of the team members. Halfway through the week we had the privledge to take Johnny to our favorite beach Carambola. Much of our week was a jumble and scramble. Our routine was thrown off a bit by the one on ones but we all stayed flexible. Johnny was a great encouragement to our team. He was  really impressed by our relationships with the kids in the Kennedy Project. And said he had never seen anything like it before in all the years he has been in YWAM.

Part of our team after hiking to the tide pool with Johnny

  And of course we spent time with the kids in Kennedy. The children have been saying more and more that they love our teachings and have been learning that God loves them! And they tell us that they love us. It is the most heartwarming thing to hear these kids who you have only known for a little over two months say they love you. We did a teaching on their dreams and how the tihngs they love are from God.

Johnny jumped right into ministry with us and helped with our crafts

Hanna with Joshua and Jared with Angelina

One of our days at Kennedy we took fingernail polish and the kids loved it!! They wanted to paint OUR fingernails more than they wanted us to do theirs. It was so great! We had a blast!

  Our team has almost completely finished painting the apartment for the new base directors. So we are really excited about that. It is looking very good. And we are so glad we got to be a blessing to the long term missionaries here and help them out with such a big project.

  We continued our ministry with the Lighthouse and have grown in our relationships there as well. Joo preached this friday and all the people sitting at the table kept asking him to read more bible verses! It was incredible. Even the pastor that leads at the lighthouse said that they never ask for more scripture. The attitudes of the people there is just one transformation that we have seen in the Lighthouse.

Some of the regulars at the Lighthouse waiting for breakfast to be served

  Friday night we held a ministry night with St. Croix Christian Church. One of the members helped Jared, Melissa, and Hanna lead worship through the night, as the rest of the team members prayed for people. The Lord totally showed up and peoples hearts were ministered to in amazing ways only God can do. We had so many people in the church tell us how greatly they appreciated us doing a ministry night.We were able to witness pastors from two churches become united in Christ by embracing eachother with brotherly love that comes only from Jesus! We saw the church body rise up and intercede for their island and the people living here. We know that the time they have waited for is coming! God is going to move on this island. They have been crying out to God, and he is coming!! Our team loved putting this together and serving the church. We are so thankful for the Lord oppening the doors to this opportunity. We know that lives were changed and no one left the same way they came.

Some of the beautiful sights we have seen:

 

“Oh the beauty of Your majesty, On the cross You showed your love to me

Beautiful Lord, awesome and mighty, I’m captured by the love I see”

-leeland

  This song describes our hearts toward God and the work we are doing here for Him. Everywhere we look we see God moving and showing His beauty in St.Croix.

  Our team is very excited to continue our ministry in the projects. We have more teachings to do and we cannot wait to see how the kids respond. We are praying for more opportunities to talk to parents and keep bringing the joy of the Lord into every situation and place we go! God has done some amazing things in the hearts and lives of the church body, the projects, and our team itself. God you are soooo good! Thank you for being so faithful to us. We are ready to dive into our last few weeks full of supernatural energy and do everything God puts on our hearts to do. We will not leave this dts with any regrets!

With all our love-St.Croix outreach team