Serving in the Caribbean

This morning we dropped off a portion of the Grace Church team from their 2nd missions trip to Windermere. 2 years ago they were one of our very first teams ever to come to Windermere and there were 3 repeats on this years team.

Along with members from the church came Emily’s Dad, brother, and nephew on the trip (look for another article specifically on their visit later). It was an extra treat to serve this week with not only team members from one of our sending churches, but also with family members.

The Grace Church team was just the right size, only 5 people, but skilled and veteraned (but also young) people that. Noah Purdy came on the first team, and this year he took a lot more leadership. He was volunteering for jobs to do and actively telling me when he spotted something extra that could be fixed; then he would jump in and fix it. Ben and Allen were also repeats from that first trip and they were very comfortable to slip right back into their first trip’s work and see it continue.

Their first project was repairing the basketball goals that they installed 2 years ago. Since the last hurricane the goals have been in disrepair or missing altogether. Yet with the Grace Chruch team on campus, it was only a matter of minutes before those goals were repaired and replaced.

The rest of the time the team was here was focused on completely what the Brookwood team had started in the classrooms. The goal was to finish out setting the new dry-erase boards and framing them in. The team not only accomplished that but they served the school by: building the rest of the board’s trays and trim, replacing screens and switches, repairing a door and gutters, building a poster board grid, and more larger and smaller tasks than I can remember.

We had such a fun time with them. The small teams are some of the best, especially when everyone is coming to give and serve, and we are so thankful for our home church in sending their own people to come and partner with us in helping to build this school and accomplish God’s mission on Eleuthera.