Wednesday, May 28, 2025What a wonderful day!! Saint Andrews is a beautiful town along the coast in New Brunswick. After a long day of travel, we arrived at our Seaside Beach Resort! I thoroughly enjoyed our time in Saint Andrew's! We explored the beach, waded in the water (which was icy cold), climbed rocks on the shore, held a live starfish, hiked 30 minutes for coffee, and watched high tide at midnight! This morning, Chy, Jamie, Autumn, Monica and I enjoyed breakfast at Honeybeans Cafe and then we all traveled around 5 hours to Nova Scotia. When we arrived at Maranatha Bible Church, we blessed them by deep cleaning the church and doing yard work! Lots of window washing, wall scrubbing, and sweeping! The program in the evening went really well, and the congregation was super friendly! All for now! Tomorrow we head for PEI!!!!-Samara Harnish … See MoreSee Less
Tuesday May 27, 2025I woke up at 5:40 this morning and stumbled around our little room and packed up our clean clothes. We stepped out the door to a beautiful sunshiny morning. We hopped onto the bus and began our seven hour drive to St. Andrews Seaside Beach Resort. Our drive was happy and consisted of six random games at once, beautiful New Brunswick scenery, and our first stop at Tim Hortons (free coffee and donuts, thanks to the church we sang at Sunday morning). We got to the Beach Resort at 4:40 and spent the afternoon tromping around the quaint little town. Six of us girls ran far away to grab Timmy's for the second time that day, and we got back in time to eat some yummy burgers our dear food committee grilled for us. We spent the evening playing yard games, walking to the lighthouse, sitting on the rocks, holding starfish, and watching the tide come in. We all prayed with our prayer partners tonight, and for me, that was an amazing way to debrief. We watched the stars come out as we talked and laughed and prayed together. One thing we prayed for (and we would appreciate your prayers in) is that we all could have a clear focus on our mission. Since tonight’s program was postponed due to a stomach bug going around at the host church,the last two days have been a lot of sight seeing, and not much singing, but tomorrow we sing again. We hope for renewed passion and energy for that program. Anyway, I am currently sitting on the couch in our cottage. It is 11:43, and the shower and the bed are calling. And so, goodbye.-Abigail Fisher … See MoreSee Less
Monday, May 26, 2025We enjoyed a day of interacting with the DNI team and sight seeing in Quebec City. We gathered for brunch at one of the DNI families' homes. The DNI team made a lovely meal of scrambled eggs, sausage, beans, pancakes, and Canadian maple syrup. After brunch, they shared about their work in Quebec and we sang a couple choir songs. In the afternoon, we got dropped off in Old City Quebec. We spent a few hours touring there, walking the streets and going in little shops and trying out the trolley. It sometimes felt like we were in a European country with the colourful buildings, stone walls, water, mountains in the distance, and some cobblestone streets. For supper, we had reservations at a restaurant, Normandin. Then we went to a park where we could play spike ball, climb the lookout tower, play tag in the shrubbery maze, or walk the trails. -Amy Cressman … See MoreSee Less
Sunday May 25, 2025Sunday was a busy day. We started our day at the bus at 7:55. From there we went to the first program of tour. It was in a Baptist church. We received a warm welcome and were surprised by the variety of people there. One of the cool things was the worship leader there was so excited to hear us sing. He told us he had been praying for us all week and couldn't wait to hear us. After the program, which went amazingly well, we each were given a tulip by the children of the church. We than had an amazing meal and even got some birthday cake. After that we went to an assisted living facility and sang for the residents and had some good talks with them. The rest of the day was spent driving and a little bit of down time in a park along the way-Landon Burkholder … See MoreSee Less
And they are off… 5th term tour left yesterday morning and traveled to Quebec. Today they sing at Green Ridge Baptist Church in Sherbrooke, Quebec and then a senior center before continuing on to Quebec City. … See MoreSee Less
The Lord of the church has given his body a variety of gifts and roles “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12). This verse contains a three-fold directive for every born again follower of Christ. As saints, we are called to move toward and into the ongoing work of sanctification and perfection in our own lives. As Christ works in us, we become His hands and feet continuing the ministry of redemption which He initiated before mankind ever needed redemption. Finally, since we are designed to function as a body and not an isolated ear or foot, we must band together as a body to build up and encourage our fellow pilgrims as we journey together.
At Sharon Mennonite Bible Institute it is our vision to function as a support to churches and families as together we endeavor to see these directives fulfilled in our lives and the lives of our students. We have no desire to become another option in the smorgasbord of entertainment and diversion, but rather to be a dynamic tool that God can use to perform His work in and through each of us. We appreciate your support as we strive to perfect the saints, equip them for ministry, and build up the body of Christ.
Clifford Schrock, Administrator
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