Our Missions Trip

Our Missions Trip

The trip went well, with a few bumps in the rode. One bump was that I fell on the side walk while holding Mia, I hurt my right elbow pretty bad, I still can’t rest it on anything or pain will shoot up my arm! PTL it wasn’t any worse, Mia did get her feet scraped up , which was kind of weird but I am glad she didn’t hit her head.

On Sunday it took Jon forever to find a parking spot, he finally got one about a mile and a half away from the church.

Those were some of the “bumps” It was kind of a unique trip in that the church is located in “Brighton Beach” which is in Brooklyn NY which is also right down the street from Coney Island. It was pretty neat driving there each day. We had to drive through the Holland tunnel and then through lower Manhattan then through the Battery Tunnel and into Brooklyn. While I said it was kind of fun, it was also very expensive, TOLLS! One day we missed our turn and so we ended up driving over the Brooklyn Bridge, another day we took the wrong turn and ended up on Staten Is. So we got to cross that bridge, then I decided to jump out of the van in Manhattan and do some shopping with my Mom and Dad so I left Jon on his own to get home, (I am his Navigator) well he knew how to get home but the Holland Tunnel was closed so I had to try and navigate him to the Lincoln Tunnel on the phone, boy was that fun! They got home a few minutes before we did, We took the Path train after doing a little shopping, they were in the Van driving ;0{

But the good news is we can pretty much drive to most places in the city :-)

We loved passing out Bibles to the Jewish people, it was such a blessing being able to see their faces when we told them they were free! The Bibles we gave out were Russian and Hebrew Bibles and they were very nice. We also handed out flyers for the “I Love Israel Sunday” and tracts as well. We did that for three days as well as having meeting to help us understand the Jewish customs and to know how to better witness to them. We also sang on the streets and in the meetings. The kids loved passing out the Bibles and being a witness, it was a blessing seeing them try to learn some Russian words so that they could be more effective in reaching them. It was a joy to see people come on Sunday, you see, a good percentage of the people you try to give any thing too will not take it. A lot of them believe that b/c we are “Christian” we are part of those that persecuted them “Roman Catholics, are considered to be “Christian”” so it wasn’t a big surprise that many would not even look at us, they are a very solemn people and if they new someone that was taking a Bible from us they would tell that person to give it back because we are not one of “them” On Sunday they were trying to keep people from going up to the meeting, telling them to go home… But Praise The Lord we were able to give out hundreds of Bibles and thousands of flyers and of course many heard the Gospel Message, very Clear.

We also enjoyed spending some time with Grandma and Grandpa, they actually stayed in our RV with us! That was interesting to say the least! In total Grandpa was with us for 2 weeks and Grandma stayed on an extra week, the time just flew by we were so busy the whole time they were here, that we could not believe it was over when they left. We spent time in NYC, then we went to Atlantic City, and then into Philly and then back to NYC and then on to the “Missions Trip”
We are a very close family if you didn’t already know that, so it is very hard to be a way from our loved ones, so needless to say we were a little down when it was all over! Yes, We miss them, A LOT! Hope you enjoy the Pic’s!!