The Shiloh Team of 30 from Ohio have come and gone. While they were here they had VBS and did some work projects.
I believe they left July 4Th.
July 9Th, A team of 8 left from Sudbury for "Cat-Lake" for a missions trip. Turned out later their were 7 of us.
Jack and Dedee Flietstra were the group leaders. Jack a pastor got a phone call while driving out of Thunder bay saying a women from their church had passed away. So he had to turn around and head back.
When we arrived in Red Lake and went to Merle and Rita's for a pit stop.
Then we were off to get our flight for Cat-Lake.
Our time there went pretty good and really loved the children. Approx 24 -30 children came for VBS. alot of them we had met from previous years.
A Memorial Feast was held for a young girl who had been murdered 15 years ago. I had the opportunity to talk with the father.
I found that day I was able to interact with some of the adults, and it sure helped to speak the language from the little bit that i know.
Those little hands knocking at the door asking us to come play. They were fun loving and so easy to love.
My bible lesson suggested i make a wordless color book and most of you know what the color's
represent . Well i began explaining what Black, red , white, green and yellow meant.
We did a review of the colors again. When the color "white" came a little girl raised her hand and said "white" was for white people. I wanted to laugh till i peed ed my pants. The little girl seemed so serious.
Just thought I'd shared that with you all!
Their were days it rained and seemed chilly, where it kept the children inside. that made it difficult sometimes.
We arrived on a Friday and left on a Friday. As we landed in Red Lake, we were just taking our seat belts off... Dedee realized she forgot the van keys in Cat-lake. All 7 of us were in shock and later we were laughing. Poor Dedee!
The pilot then said he could make a pit stop in Cat-Lake the next day and be back mid afternoon with the keys. We all stayed at the guest house and did my visiting that next day.
Well we didn't get the keys till approx 8:00. So much for leaving that day.
It was a blessing in disguise, I was able to have more time in Red lake.
But it made it really hard the next day because we drove straight through and Poor drivers were exhausted!
Before our trip to cat-lake we had couple people back out, then were some mix-ups with the scheduling. Another team from the states had said they booked the dates we were supposed to in cat-Lake.
Anyways we made it there and enjoyed our time there!
We were in much need of physically, Spiritually , Mentally Prayers.
I feel like i was coming down with a sinus cold. Over all doing pretty good! Here's a picture of our team!
