A normal day

My job onboard involves….spending time playing an teaching the ship kids…..at the moment , there is ten kids on fundeck! It is a callange living in your workplace knowing when to stop work or thinking bout the children as they become such a big part of ur life!

And it’s a challange remebering an seeing the bigger picture that even though im not working in the book fair with the children coming onboard each day, I still play apart in Gods body on Logos hope that through his Grace, brings many to know him. ( As do you through your prayers an support.)

God reminded me the other day that these children are just as much my minstry as the ones on deck four visiting the ship (infact our whole life is). In Mark 9v37 ‘Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me….’ In all things we do even the small little ones we can worship an Glorify God!
One massive priverlige is the freedom to pray with the kids, talk about God…….with them. Answer their why questions.
When they have asked you soo many times why…..with I don’t know thats just the way God made it!
The ship kids are proberly the only children in the world to know what a muster station drill is, act out a cherry red drill, an pull in a pretend mooring line!
They also act out alot of what we teach them, in many ways their is less influences from the world around them coming in. They have been Jesus dying on the Cross, Mary.. Jesus……David….Goliath……
The funniest thing happened the other day while we were in a pretend rocket travelling to space, Rebecca aged 4 – Said ‘ Ok now we are going to close are eyes an pray (an she prayed) an when we open them we are going to visit God in space!

A link in the chain

School kids, waiting to come on…

A Man walks into the line up teams office (line up are 3-4 people who go ahead of the ship to prepare the ship to come into that port.)
Can i tell you a story? The man asked.
‘Sure’ said Flo. (One of the line up team for kingston Jamaica)
The man proceded to tell Flo that 6 years ago a team from the Logos 2 visited one of the prisons in knigstown and shared there with a group of men how God had changed their lives. The man said at the end the team gave a challange to the men inviting them to accept Jesus into their lives. One of the men that day responded Yes and was conected by people from the Logos 2 to a local church in Jamiaca.

The man standing before Flo was the man who had followed this guy up after accepting Christ, a few months passed an the man did not have the chance to visit this man again. But he continued to pray for him.
While he was at a Christian conference in Jamaica just recently. The man from the prision he had followed up approached him and said remeber me?
I am out of prision an attending bible college I want to share with other how God changed my life!

So often we dont get to see the seed planted or all the links in the chain to make it complete, but we never know what something as simple as a kind word or smile or sharing your God story can do!
With so many people coming onboard in the last two ports it is not always possible to see or conect with them all. So we have to trust God to continue to use us in small ways so each person on board sees and senses a difference in each of our lives!
In Montego bay we had 83,474 vistors, with Montego bay having a population of 96, 000. Out of this number was 16, 000 school kids who all had the chance to hear God loves them in the Greatest treasure (a drama about God being the greatest treasure each school child sees while onboard.)

I decided to step out of my comfort zone an help out with this new outreach called the scripture funfair,
we set up along the line on the keyside as people wait and kids or parents can partake. There are six different activites that explain a different part of the gospel message. One acitivity includes jumping from this line to try to touch a target to far to possibly reach, explaining how we all fall short of Gods love.
At the end, the people who partake can choose to give theirlives to Christ or just recieve prayer.
A fourteen year old boy two activities down the track, learnt that God loved and wanted to spend eternity in heaven, he said ‘ No one ever told me about God til now, how do i get this love?
God allos us all to play a small part in a life changing goal!

Love emma

Happy Australia Day

High school visit

We are in Jamicica Montego bay, this port soo far has been very busy! with soo many school kids! Some times its hard not to want to be helping with the program down their each day! We are expecting a few thousand school kids on board in the next few weeks!
The children, who come onboard go to an hour program where the crew puts on a play called the greatest treasure- with a few crazy pirates on a journey to find the real greatest treasure (eternal life). The also all recive a free copy of the gospel of Luke and a kids cartoon book about Jesus and amaking choice for him.

The other day for my e-day (this is once a week, we are put on a team to go an reach out to both people who know God or dont know God…….. I was sent to lead a team to a high school for a morning devotions…….if u know me slightly u will know that im very scared of teenagers and have never been ‘ cool enough to reach them” But I have learnt that this is Gods job not mine!
The high school was big 1000 students! It was a christian high school, and I was able to give my testimony and connect and relate to them, (as I to went to a christian high school, and heard God every day but it did’nt mean i knew him as my best friend!) They listianed, and i could’nt believe I even could open my mouth! God is Good!

I love clowning it gives me an excuse to be crazy and someone really cheeky! and kids (most kids) love it, with soo many school visits in this port their are soo many oppertunites
A low light for me at the moment is tiredness, it is hard to seprate work in the school, helping where they need help and off time, days are soo full on. Pray for wisdom to know when to say yes and no! I know that’s what life is like for many of u at home!

Happy Australia day, we celebrated on the ship with the limited Aussie things we have, tim tams, minties and vegemie an cheese sandwhiches……what I would do for a steak hahah!

love emma