Hello to all. I just wanted to give you a brief update on our week and our ministry. Every morning we were able to do a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for the kids of the island. The first day we had 84 kids, but it only went up after that!!! Tuesday (157 kids), Wednesday (147) and today (132 kids). We were able to talk to them about the creation story, the Bible is the Word of God and we also talked about Salvation. What a powerful week of ministry! In the evenings we were able to talk to the teenagers of [View Full Entry]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF OUR TRIP!! THIS IS A LINK TO GOOGLE PICTURES: http://picasaweb.google.com/thevertical Just past the link into your web browser and see pictures of our trip. they are named by the dates the pictures were taken (i think!) We love you all and can't wait to see you on Saturday night! Pastor Ben Hannah and Ethan (daddy and mommy love you!) [View Full Entry]

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Hello I am Olivia and I will be talking about what went on today! Well we got up bright and early around 5:30 for some girls and 6:30ish for me. The island time is really weird. It gets early real early and dark early! The kids started banging on the gates to get into the area of the church around 8:30am we gave them the soccer ball and they started a game. Lucy and I went out to play with the little boys and a group of young girls instantly grasped on to us and went to the other field to [View Full Entry]

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Hey my name is Olivia! It is Tuesday today but I will be talking about yesterday. Yesterday was an unexpected blessing...well at least to me. I thought that there would be like a few little kids that would, maybe if we were lucky, fill up a few rows of the church. But! As you know when you put God in a box he will bust out of it and go beyond your expect ions. There were so many kids! Each one of them wanting to play with your hair or sit on your lap. They were there for your attention. It [View Full Entry]

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We have arrived in Barbuda, the ladies on Saturday night and the guys on Sunday morning. We had a great time in service worshiping together with Barbuda Pentecostal Church. Kami and Dave led Sunday School this morning and Nic, Alicia and Kara shared a testimony, our team performed a funny skit (the itch skit) and Kara awed the church with her Fine Arts Piano piece. It is beautiful here and we spent the afternoon walking around Codrington, the main (and only) city on Barbuda. We invited everyone we saw to Vacation Bible School during the week days and then to our [View Full Entry]

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We just stared this blog to keep everyone updated on our upcoming mission trip to Barbuda from July 12th - 19th, 2008! Ben and Kami Heilman [View Full Entry]

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I’m getting into the final stretch of my contract now. Still a good chunk of time left, but the end is in sight and soon I’ll be visiting ports for the last times. So this week, I’ve made a point to get out in the ports every day to see and do things. While on the Destiny, I went snorkeling and zip-lining in Antigua, but I hadn’t really seen much of the island itself. Thanks to friends in the Shore Ex department, I got onto a sightseeing and historical tour of the island: “the best of Antigua”. We had a great [View Full Entry]

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Resume de nos vacances mars 2008. Pendant q'on prend notre petit biere dans sud , les gens du quebec prends le chocolat chaud entre deux pelletes de neige. [View Full Entry]

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Grandma was eaten by a shark Dad, by a killer whale And my baby brother got slurped up By a rather hungry sea snail Andrea Shavick So you think you know your sharks: scary, horrible, teeth producing machines, all set to attack! Well according to National Geographic, more humans get bitten by people from New York each year than by sharks. So it’s time to learn a bit more about these amazing creatures and realise that sharks tend to leave us alone, as long as we leave them alone. Don’t get me wrong, sharks are efficient hunting machines, but they would [View Full Entry]

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We are still in Barbuda, loved it!!! Talk about speechless, it is one of those times. A wow! And you know there are not too many times I have been speechless. We started our day with Cayuga picking us up, went to beach. We had a local tour of the "Black Frigate Birds". We learned to tell the male from females, the young ones, etc. I got pictures! The males they have this mating call and their chest swells up in red balloon. The females after mating, they feed the males and the young. The males leave in or around May [View Full Entry]

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