UK team blog: Time to spare - Bahamas Air

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Time to spare - Bahamas Air

It was an early start today! We had to check in at 6:30 for the next stage of our trip to Grand Bahama. We had to get the internal flight to Nassau then wait again for the next flight to Free Port. The first plane was so small (19 total passengers) we say some of the bags being left behind, we prayed they weren't ours! Thankfull when we got to Nassau our prayers were answered.

We were welcomed again so warmly with some lunch ready and met Renae. She had organised a tour of Freeport for us by the ministry of Tourism. It is interesting that Free Port has only really been established for 50 years, a Bahamian New Town. Total different to the new town I was brought up in.

We met our homestays and everyone seems really comtent.

We were so tired that nobody felt up to the evening prayer meeting and hence we all rested in preparation for another, hot and busy day.

Please pray for a blessed time here in Grand Bahama.

Al

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Prayer Requests

We give thanks for our marvellous hosts here in Grand Bahama and for Timothy our main minibus driver. Please pray for the teachers, Principal and children of St Paul's Methodist College as they prepare for the return to scholl next week. Please pray for the Old Folks at the Home we will visit tomorrow. PLease also pray for our preparations for the Sunday services.
We give thanks for the hospitality and love that we have been given here in Andros. We give thanks for our generous home stay hosts and families. We pray a special blessing on all those we have touched in our time here, especially Sister Verne and family, Donna & Mary, the children at the Vacation Bible School, the young people of Andros, Revs Mark & Stacia, Sister Terese, Mary & Rose who ran craft lessons for us and especially Johnte. We give thanks for the good GCSE results for Katy, Caitlin and Rae and pray for Tim & Chris who have decided to wait for their results until they get home. We pray for our last day in Andros and for travelling mercies as we fly to Grand Bahama.
Please pray for all those who are receiving their GCSE results today -which is about half the team!, and those who are back home who are also getting the results today. Pray that whatever results the team receive they are content with their performance and that Gods Spirit is with them in whatever their response. We also ask that you pray for those back home who could not come with us. We pray that they are content with their decision and pray that God is with them through the tough times and through thier day to day lives.
Please pray for Sister Verne Duvalier and her grand children. Please also pray for our outreach work. And the Vacation Bible School that many children come and hear the word of God. We give thanks for the opportunities for outreach and our brilliant homestays and the huge welcome from the local people. We also ask for prayer for storm Fay, pray it doesn't turn into a hurricane, we pray for the people in Florida and Miami who will probably be affected. We also pray for the families of those killed in a bus crash in Haiti. We give thanks that the tropical storm is not affecting the Islands we are on. Please hold the team in your prayers as some are still homesick and feeling slightly tired. We ask you pray for the holy spirit to come and sustain us through the tiredness and the heat.
A Prayer used at this mornings worship - God of Love, we have come here tody for a family reunion! We know that we are sisters and brothers in Christ. Each of us is your precious child. And yet there is division in this family. There is sibling rivalry, old resentments, new irritations. We are quick to anger, slow to forgive. We would rather choose our relatives, than acknowledge the all-inclusive nature of your family. Open our hearts to your love, and show us the way of reconciliation. Teach us to see each brother and sister with your eyes. Help us claim our heritage as your own children, and live together in unity as yout family. Pray this with our Bahamian brothers and sisters and each other. The world church and beyond.