Christ Fellowship Missions

The last work day!

Today was our last official "work" day! Wheeh! I was excited and sad at the same time...We had the privilege and opportunity of serving apx. 1200 men, woman, and children! From Children's hospitals to neighborhoods there was a chance to share the Kingdom with people, and hope that they embrace the gift of eternal life our Redeemer promises us. There is so much do! My prayer is that we as a church, never forget how new and exciting our salvation is. Every day is just as exciting as the hour we first believed! God Bless you.

By His saving Grace,
Jezebel Napoleon

Days two and Three

Day Two and Three:

It’s been a great day two and three. We didn’t post yesterday due to lack of internet until late at night. I’ll recap some events…

Tuesday:
We did the clinic in the “Trinidad” community. We saw about 240 patients and saw many make decisions for Christ. Here are some interesting facts about that visit:

1. A 15 yr old girl came with a huge hole in her foot, the wound was filled with maggots. She didn’t know her name or where she lived, our nurses believe she lives on her own in the woods.
2. Bulls came down the mountainside and walked right through the middle of our medical station. I’ll try to attach a picture. You wouldn’t even see this on tv!

Our student/evangelism team spent the morning at the clinic and the afternoon in an English speaking school. It was an amazing experience as our team was able to share in groups of two in classrooms. The teams were able to share their faith openly in many classrooms with great conversations. God totally opened the door and we enjoyed walking through it.

We went to a park after our day of working to meet and hang out with locals. We played some basketball and many of our team members were able to share the faith during this time. It was very cool.

Wednesday

Today we hosted the clinic at Zacamil church, our host church. We again saw many people make decisions for Christ. We also saw God work in big ways physically…one lady literally had a stroke while talking to Cathy, one of our nurses. She was able to treat her and get her to the hospital; it saved her life. Praise God for his divine appointments.

Our student/evangelism team spent the morning at the clinic and the afternoon in a Children’s’ hospital. We met kids from 5 days old to 16 years old that suffered from burns, cancer, blood poisoning, etc. It was very humbling to walk through these wards handing out toys and praying with families to offer them hope. We will not soon forget the impact this place had on our lives.
Thursday looks to be our busiest day yet. We’ll keep you posted.

He lives!

Today we set up a clinic at the actual church we are working with @ Zacamil. I translated again today! Yeah!
I will only say one thing because it was the most powerful thing that happen to me today. Cathy Berger and Rebecca Vinson, Marie ( translator) and myself are sharing a room. Cathy saw a patients legs that were so degenerated she needed knee replacement. We had to bluntly tell her that. We gave her some meds to relieve the pain she was feeling in the mean time. She wanted to pray for us before she left. She began to pray a powerful prayer of faith. She prayed that God would protect us and guide us, that God would hold is in the deepest part of His hands (like the Bible says). She also said "How can we love the God we don't see, and not love our neighbor." She thanked us for loving her. We were crying like babies, we had to pull ourselves together for the next patient. It was a glorious moment. He lives! Even when it's rough, He lives. This woman has nothing, but she has Faith.

Jezebel Napoleon

El Salvador Rocks!!

Hey Everybody!

I will be really brief because I'm sleepy! Today was awesome. We went to another clinic in the AM. We saw about 100 people. It was just as moving as Monday.. so many people that need medication! I had the privilege of translating for Rebecca Vinson, one of the nurses we took with us! She rocks too. In the PM the we went to a english speaking school. We went two by two and introduced ourselves in classrooms. We basically said a little about ourselves and let them ask us questions.. it was not difficult to share the gospel, they literally asked for it. God was totally opening the door for us to speak, it was effortless. Thank you for reading and please continue to pray for us.

Mary I love you, thank you for everything!
Cathy you rock , keeping upstairs under control, love ya

Jezebel Napoleon

day two

¸What an amazing day. I'll do my best to be both informative and brief.

Our first full day of ministry was doing a medical clinic in a small town outside of San Salvador. It's our first time doing this full on and it was an unbelievable experience. Here's some of the stats from our day today:

1. We saw over 300 adult patients...that doesn't include probably at least that many children. (we only counted adults even if the kids were seen).

2. Our "clinic" was two small townhomes next door to each other. (one of them was one room only...so we aren't talking alot of space) One side of the clinic was for physical exams, consultations and prescriptions and the other side was the pharmacy and the spiritual counseling. Every single person (except 5 or so) heard the Gospel in a one on one situation at least once.

3. 50 people made decisions for Christ. They were simply presented with the truth and chose to accept it. Amazing.
Many more expressed interest and wanted to know more. Still others wanted more info about the church. It was literally heart wrenching to meet people who couldn't read or write, but believed with their whole heart what their priest told them about salvation and eternity.
Here are some of the reasons we heard against Christianity today:
1. A woman said, " I can't be a Christian. I like to wear pants."
2. I must give to charities to get to heaven. I must do good things.
3. I've done too many bad things.

4. Many people were physically sick due to emotional problems. Death of a loved one ranked number one-not sleeping, etc played a major role in peoples health. It was awesome to see a woman who had mourned her dead son for a year find peace in a relationship with Jesus.

5. We have an all star team. The temps were probably 95 or so, our team worked all day in a house with only a couple of fans...a concrete house with minimal windows. I'm not saying it was hot in there, but I'm convinced i saw a guy cooking eggs on the floor! Anyway, no complaints from the team. Crazy. I'm impressed.

Here are some other random facts:
a. hot dogs are decent here
b. only 2 team members have thrown up (that we know of)
c. the salvadorans are very welcoming and open.

We’re excited about tomorrow!

Jeff

Our team leaves today

Team El Salvador flies out today about 5:40pm from Miami International.  We're very excited about the team God has assembled!  We will arrive back in MIA next Saturday about 1pm.  We are partnering with Iglesia Bautista Zacamil, the Baptist church we have partnered with for years.  In fact, our two Salvadorean interns are from this church. Here are some specific ways you can pray for us this week! 1.  Our medical team will be ministering to hundreds of people in a few days time.  Our evangelism team will partner with them for three of the days while we are there.  Our prayer is that while many will come for physical healing, they will find spiritual healing as well.  Please pray for the hearts of those we will minister to. 2.  Our evangelism team will be in public schools for a "multicultural experience".  We will be in the classrooms of these schools and will be sharing the Gospel openly.  Pray for the hearts of students in these schools. 3.  Our host church, IBZ, will be hosting soccer tournaments a few of the nights while we are there.  Our team will be involved in this as well.  We're also trying to host a basketball tournament.  (honestly, we have a much better shot at winning the basketball tourney, but it's all about the Kingdom!) We'll post throughout the week! Jeff 

Ministry in South Africa

 

Hey everybody! This might be the last email for a few days...

 Well yesterday, we went to the frog center yesterday, and this is the big ministry here in South Africa for the students to come and hang out somewhere safe. The ministry is huge, and there are so many kids in the building, and what Pastor John really needs is a Frog center coordinator, he has been trying to get one for a while now, so that is a major prayer request from down here in S. Africa. There might be a couple coming from America tot help sometime, but please just be praying for that. Right now its just hard because there aren't coordinated and organized activities for the kids- chaos basically!

 Well yesterday was also so hard for a couple of reasons- Brittany found out in an email that one of her friends from back at school was killed in a car accident. He was traveling to help out with a Christian camp. And then 4 siblings, that just came to Mollies place right before we got here, their mother died yesterday because of aids. They knew it was coming, that's why they are at the orphanage, but it's just so sad to think of these children without parents. So please pray for them, that they are able to adjust to living at mollies place. These children are so sweet.

 Today, we were supposed to have our last day in the schools, but the teachers are on strike here. So school was totally canceled... but we got to do something else that was amazing!  Since we have been staying at john and Evelyn's house, we have heard John talk about how he needs a new refrigerator... so us four girls went to this store today and bought them a new refrigerator! It's so beautiful! And its a surprise... it is being delivered tonight! We can't wait to see their faces!  They have been such a blessing to us, so we want to bless them as well!

 Oh and funny story, Evelyn has been making us amazing dinners everyday, so we decided to make her and john an American meal... well half American- Mexican American tacos!  And some of Evelyn's friends came over to eat it... and they didn't know how to eat it. They asked if the shell was the side bread... so we gave them a taco 101 course. And demonstrated how to make and eat the taco! It was awesome... these people were so funny. And they wanted to bite it from the top!

 Ok well love you guys! We have had an amazing time here... and we are going on an overnight trip tomorrow for the safari! And cave exploring (maybe) and ostrich riding (maybe) if I'm brave enough!

Love you all!

Court

Fun in South Africa

Well, I think we are all feeling so much better! Thank you for all your prayers!

We went to Rockland school today and yesterday, and it was another great couple of days. These some funny kids, let me tell you. Everything is going wonderful! I don't know if I told you about our South African friends Lewellen and Lewayne, but they have been going to the classrooms and schools with us, and helping us do some fun South African stuff, to get the kids excited! They have been fabulous, and we wouldn't have been able to do it without their help! There are some fun songs for the kids that I absolutely love! Going to have to bring back this fun to the states! We will be at the frog center this afternoon, and tonight, at Mollies place! We only have one more day in the schools- tomorrow, and then John and Evelyn are taking us on a safari Thursday, and to the caves on Friday (it is about 3 hours away). So I wont be near a computer for a few days! Anyway, I have to go! Love you all!

Pray for South Africa

    Well this weekend has been kind of rough for some of us. Kiley, Kaycee, and I have been battling colds/sore throats and such. I am feeling much better today. Thankfully, this past Friday and Saturday we had the opportunity to rest quite a bit and catch up on some sleep. Kaycee is still not feeling well at all, please continue to pray for her. She needs to get better and get her strength back because tomorrow will be a full day.

  This weekend we got to spend more time with the kids at Mollie's place. We keep falling more in love with these kids. It is so amazing to see how God has blessed this church to have this home for the children. These kids just need so much love and attention, and we are just praying that God would use us there in everyway possible. We just can't get enough of them! They are precious, and they give the best hugs and never want to let go. I am just amazed at the overwhelming love I have for these kids. It's just funny to see how the Lord pulls on our hearts:) BUT THEY ARE GREAT!!!!!!!

Church was wonderful this morning, John preached out of 1 Cor. 13, and it was a great reminder to all of us that this trip is great, and so simple, but serving is nothing without love, and is not gain to us. I am just in awe of God's love poured out upon me, and am so undeserving that He would use me here! Praise to his name:) Love you guys and your continual prayers and support is so encouraging! Thank you for being so faithful!
Courtney Watson

Experiences in Cuba

What an incredible experience I had in Cuba. It was 7 of the most meaningful days of my life. We spent months training, preparing and praying for God to use our 6 person team as he saw fit. We went to be a blessing to the wonderful people of Cuba. We were blessed far more. We had the privilege of witnessing in homes, sharing in churches, building relationships with the saved and unsaved and showing God's love to as many people as possible. We were humbled to see over 90 people accept Christ while we were there. Praise God.

Want to change your life forever? Get involved in domestic or international missions. I promise that your life will never be the same. You will come home a changed person. More on fire for God than ever.

Frank