My Bahamas Mission Trip 2013: Day 3 of the Bahamas, Friday, January 11, 2013

Day 3 of the Bahamas

My favorite day

At the beginning of the day, I was one of about eleven kids who were chosen to help pick up kids from an elementary school, and bring them to the Adventure Learning Centre. The kids we were ridding with were awesome! We were singing songs with the kids on the way there, and even though they were from a public school, all the songs they chose to sing were Christian songs. I thought it was really amazing, especially how full of joy the bus was. When we got there I easily made friends with lots of the kids there. We were playing in a big open area and a few kids began to attack me because my friend Josh encouraged them to and this commotion encouraged what became a few kids to about twenty to attack me and form doggy piles on me. I was mildly used to the mountain of kids attacking feeling from serving in children's ministry at my church for a few years. I had bumps, bruises, and scratches on me afterwards and all of them in the name of the Lord haha. After I changed into a new shirt (my old one was torn up) I got a group of about 12 kids together and I told them we were going to play a game to see how smart they were. I asked them questions and gave them points for correct answers. I began transitioning from a game to more of the story of Christ and the Gospel message. Even though a few kids left, many remained. Afterwards I asked them if they wanted to accept Christ as their Lord and savior, and the eight that I had left did. This moment was really amazing because I opened myself up to God the day before and he used me and spoke through me on this day. We played with the kids some more and then said our goodbye's. Afterwards we went to another elementary school in the Bahamas and we brought a group of about 40 kids together. We had a few skits planned for them and afterwards, I closed it by giving the kids the Gospel message. God spoke through me again and then I asked if any of them wante to recieve Christ and about 30 of them rose their hands. For a millasecond, I was astonished, but then I had this feeling of not being to suprised because I felt God telling me, "This is really happening. Do you see what happens when you open youself to me? This is easy for me." We got to spend some more time playing with kids and then we left.