Last week at the Eleuthera Bible Training Center we hosted a team of 30 students and leaders from Grace Church in Greenville South Carolina. We here on Eleuthera have been given unofficial status as the Island Campus, by our home church!
As part of the week long short term trip we hosted Bible School for children in 2 different settlements which also included the students from the Center for Exceptional Learners. These 7 special needs students arrived from as far as 50 miles from the site where we hold VBS and we ventured out to pick them up each day. What we didn’t know was that God had a much, much larger plan!
As we took the bus to the farthest settlement in the north of the island, we picked up 2 boys from the Haitian settlement. We also picked up a few children from the Haitian church in that settlement… but, they had a few friends who wanted to come along. By the end of the week we were carrying over 60 children from that settlement roughly 50 miles one way 3 to a seat and standing in the isles to our Bible School location in Hatchet Bay. Adding in the children from Hatchet Bay and Palmetto Point we ended up with over 120 kids by the end of the week!
As we rode along in the bus we had kids using the bus ceiling as a drum to create a beat so that they could sing praise to the Lord while riding to and from VBS. Talk about a joyful noise!!
It has been our desire to connect with the Hatian community in North Eleuthera so that we could begin a Bible Training Class there. We were able to establish credibility there through the VBS, and all of the kids that participated!
We now have several Haitian church leaders interested in a Bible training class, and they are very eager to have an opportunity to be instructed in how to effectively deliver God’s word to their congregations!
