Our first day!

Some pictures of the 3 schools that we were at today! We handed out approximately 2000 Bibles! It was an unbelievable experience!

Los Angeles

Playing Dutch Blitz in the LA airport!

Fiji update

Thursday, July 4th

We just finished our very first school a few minutes ago! What an incredibly amazing experience!!! There really are no words to describe it! When we arrived at the school we were led to a classroom where approximately 100 students began to fill the room. Once everyone was present, the vice principal introduced us and the sang their national anthem (which is sung to the tune of "Dwelling In Beulah land") pastor Brooks then stood and gave a 20 minute presentation of the Bible and the plan of salvation. He had the kids full attention and kept them humoured while at the same time driving the salvation message home. We then all stood, introduced ourselves and sang Victory In Jesus. Pastor Ryan then gave a brief message about why the bible is important in his life and again gave the plan of salvation. We then handed out the Bibles along with a bookmark from the church here. The response was incredible!! Made me want to cry, but had to hold the tears back! Feeling so extremely blessed and unworthy to be here and be a part of this! Our accomadations are great! The girls are staying with Sister Marioni and her granddaughter Filo. They are the sweetest people and are absolutely spoiling us rotten with great cooking and amazing hospitality! We did have to laugh though, Pastor was forewarning the guys about cold showers....turns out the guys had warm showers and us girls get to have cold showers for the next 3 weeks! Apparently the guys fly out to Lumbasa today though and the. They will experience their first cold showers! 

Thank-you again to all of you who have sacrificed your money and prayers for us to be here! We are truly have the adventure of our life's!

In Los Angeles!

We are now safely in Los Angeles! Just finished supper and now we are all catching up on texts, emails, and killing time! We can't check in for our next flight until 8:30pm (which would be 10:30pm back home) so we have have some time to kill! We fly at 11:30pm LA time! God has been so good to us thus far! All of our flight crews have been exceptionally amazing and the customs border guard was awesome! He thought it was so cool that we were Canadian and that it was Canada day and that we were on a missions trip!:) when we got on the flight from Calgary to LA we sang Oh Canada and got lots of smiles and others singing along! We are all getting a little tired so that should hopefully mean a good night's sleep on our next flight.

Through customs!

We safely made it through customs and are now in the Calgary airport waiting to board our next flight to Los Angeles! Had the most amazing customs border guard and the most hilarious awesome flight crew!

Through security!!:)

Good morning everyone! We are now at the Winnipeg international airport and have successfully made it through security and are now drinking Tim Hortons , Starbucks and waiting to board our first flight! Excitement is high and we are all anxious to see what God will do with and through us on this trip! Greatly appreciate the prayers of so many!:)

GPBC Team Fiji

This is the official update page for the Fiji Team of Golden Plains Baptist Church.

The GPBC Fiji Team is comprised of: John Elwood, Bethany Isaac, Josiah Isaac, Kyla Loewen, Katie Michie, Rebekah Thurston, Cindy Towle, Matthew Towle, Tanessa Wiebe

This is one of several teams assisting in the Fiji Bible Project headed up by Alan Brooks (Assistant Southeast Asia Director for BIMI)

The Fiji Team will be leaving for Fiji July 1, 2013 and returning July 21, 2013