Taking A Reading

WHERE HAVE WE BEEN?
WHERE ARE
WE GOING NEXT?

Ministry leaders from the Church world, para-church world and the "real world" came together to share Bible lessons, experiences and leadership tools to help the House of God plot a course for the future.

Our first afternoon at Victory Heights prooved a valuable time to turn over the soil and plant fresh thought and new enthusiasm.

BIBLE CONFERENCE

One of the ministry streams that has formed up over the years is a need to train people in Trinidad to study the Bible for themselves. Often a typical Trini in the congregation will act simply as a spectator to a Sunday service. Our partners at the House of God asked us to help them train their people in basic Bible study skills.

What was planned as a week-long seminar could actually be turned into a whole semester of Sunday schools. More training to come... Thanks for your efforts Dr. Jim!

RIGHT WERE WE LEFT THEM

You'd think that with all of the energy buzzing inside the walls of the King's KidsSchool it would be hard to keep track of everyone. But, here they still are. 40+ kids calling KK their home-away-from-home.

The staff is doing a good job keeping up with Government regulations and curriculum development.

We plan to be sending more educators from the States to help with further developments.

BUSINESS-AS-MISSIONS

A new/old mnistry idea is becoming a cutting-edge ministry model in the missions world. Many business people are Christians and want to know how their secular jobs can be used as a ministry tool. Is it only about profit and loss or is there something more we can bring to the regular 9 to 5?
Bruce is a corporate trainer and interviewed a spectrum of business people to learn how business people in the USA could help Trinidad answer this question of being a Christian business person. The result? Lots of ideas and a conference to prepare for in May!

WOMEN'S MINISTRY

Yvonne is one of the key leaders at the House of God. She is responsible for leading the Prayer and Women's ministries.

She has been facing the common struggle of how to balance family, work, and church life while trying to engage in the needs of the women at the church.
A strong connection was made with Yvonne and some of our teammates who have continued to talk and plan to help her with Women's Bible studies and event planning.

INTRODUCING NEW
TEAMMATES TO OLD FRIENDS.

Ruth represented Lake Lundgren Bible Camp in northern Wisconsin. Another ministry stream that has arisen over the years is a need to connect the youth of Trinidad to meaningful goals.

Ruth and her husband, Mike, have been a blessing to MissionGuides and a answer to that prayer. Through their help, we plan to continue the training we started with our Youth exchange last year. Having them meet our old friends is the cherry-on-top of a good week

FOLLOWUP!

Matt was very instrumental in organizing a youth exchange in Green Bay last fall. He was able to join us again this year for a followup visit and a team time with those young leaders.

Next steps? There is talk of having them help with a Vacation Bible School in Wisconsin. There is also the hope that some of them will spend the summer at a Bible camp for more structured training to bring back home.

LET'S NOT FORGET,
IT'S NOT ALL
ABOUT PROGRAMS!

So that we don't do that we make sure we don't lose the people to our planning, we connect with the relationships that give everything its color. Syrie and Hannifer are our good neighbors when we stay in Trinidad.
Seeing their kids grow up, enjoying fresh coconuts from their trees and catching up with their very interesting lives over the years is the real work we want to do. We have many years of work ahead of us! We look forward to you joining us some day too. We hope it will be soon.