Today we had our final time with the kids at the church and serving on the grounds there, visited the only planetarium in all of Bahamas, are currently cooking live crabs for an after-dinner snack, and a frog just jumped on me. :)
It was a bittersweet day for our team. After spending 4 amazing days with the children at the Haitian New Missions Baptist Church, we had to say our final goodbyes. We had been challenged by our project coordinator yesterday to choose a "starfish" which is on the Bahamian penny. So we've each been carrying around this penny to remind us to be bold in sharing God's love with our "starfish". We spent yesterday and today with more of a focus on intentional conversations. We learned more about the children we've gotten close to and we were able to spend today sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with them. We finished well as a team and I know that we will not soon forget their faces and their stories.
We also got a lot of work accomplished at the church by cleaning up a lot of broken glass on the grounds, laying cement slabs to add parking, painting the outside of the church, and doing a cleaning swipe through the entire building. We also had students take on their own side projects like getting a new basketball hoop set up and clearing a safe area for soccer games!
Our community has been deepening with each day. God has opened new doors and different opportunities for us to get to know more about one another and continue to create a safe place where we can ask questions and talk about our daily walk with Christ. We couldn't ask for cooler community to happen on the trip!
Tomorrow we will be heading out to the Straw Market for some shopping and local dining then to the beach in the afternoon. Please pray for tomorrow as we spend our final day enjoying beautiful Nassau and one another as we have a final "debrief" of the week.
God has been so faithful and so evident this week!!! Thank you for your continued prayers!!!
LR.
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