July/August St Lucia Missionary Trip 2007

Randy had pneumonia and was not able to go to Saint Lucia/Tobago. Shaye joined the "Team USA" along with Tiffany and Richard and Brenda and Brenda's daughter Lorie... It was so awesome... The first four days it was just Shaye and I and we really had some special time of sharing, caring and playing and praying... Then Tiff joined us and she is always full of charm and surprizes... She and Shaye really hit it off very well... Then came the Douglas's and it was perfect...

We began on Sunday at the main pastor's church and then went on to the tent crusade... Around 1000 people and lots and lots of rain... We had been to the streets before the crusade and invited people... Especially the sail boat expedition where we met Thomas and Carol and brought them back to church and literally had church on the boat... Praise the Lord! We wrote a song in creole the language of the island:

We Masia, Jesuea Quee,

We Masia, Jesuea Quee,

Jesuea Quee Sofay Lataya

Jesuea Quee Sofay Lataya

Jesuea Quee Sofay Lataya

We masia, Jesuea Quee

They all loved it and appreciated the fact we attempted their language... It was a plus!

We then moved on to Tobago where we were in tent meetings with Ramdial's... It was so cool... The big tent is for their actual Sunday local church... The little tent is for the every night revival meetings through-out Tobago... The week we were there it was placed smack dabb in the middle of the neighborhoods... Houses all around... Something we could not do in our free America... People came out and set on their porches and listenned... I think the most exciting night was the junior crusade night when Tiff and Shaye ministered in song and games and the word and the altars were full... Really special....

Seeing the new house that the Ramdials are building on land that God gave them on the top of a mountain overlooking all of the island... A beautiful spot... The first time when Randy and I went they lived in a house the size of my living room and had to check each morning for snakes and spiders hidden in warm dark spots... God has made them the head and not the tail and yet they have not seized the sacrafices because God just keeps on giving and giving to them and they do the same... You can't out give the Lord no matter how you try!!! Well, finally the day came and we all got to go home and believe me we were all ready for a great big USA hamburger.... A great time with many blessings... I loved all who went on this journey and all the work that was done in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ!