Day 3July 17, 2016Some rose early, like 6:30 AM. Others a little later. Breakfast was prepared by Dave. Eggs ,pancakes, and toast. A friend Howard Canabe who has had his children in our Vacation Bible School stopped by for a visit this morning. He now works for the Shamattawa Band doing city maintenance. When 1:00 came we still had no place to hold our VBS, so we utilized the outdoors. Today we had 46 children
Day 2July 16, 2016Up at the crack of dawn, the church ladies came at 5:30 to make breakfast for the four of us. A “FULL” breakfast it was. Eggs, bacon, potatoes, pancakes, sausage, juice, and Tim Horton’s coffee. We left Grand Rapids shortly after breakfast at about 7:00 AM. Drove as far as Ponton, a small junction café and gas station. After a quick stop there, we continued on to Thompson, arriving there by 10:45.
Day 1 July 15, 2016 Travel Day Shamattawa team left Fergus Falls at about 8:30 AM Friday Morning heading north to the Canadian border. Passing through Fargo, Grand Forks and Pembina, we hit the border by about 12:30 PM, almost to the minute of the time we crossed last year in 2015. The border crossing was uneventful, but did get called in to go over the paperwork once again as in past years. Then on
Saturday, July 16Norway House TeamsSend Off at Church
Trinity Lutheran Church LAMP (Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots) teams are nearing their departure to Canada. The Shamattawa team will be leaving Friday, July 15 from the church at approximately 8:00 am and the Norway House team will be leaving from the church on Saturday, July 16 at approximately 8:00 am.Please keep all of our teams in prayer as they travel north to bring the Gospel message of Jesus to the Cree people of