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    Tears in the Rain
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    Tears in the Rain

    By Jack Thomasson

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    Tears In The Rain is an inspiring extractions form the diary of the leader of a short term mission team to a neglected village in the West Indies. The group of teenagers and their chaperones leave the bustle of American living for a primitive village with no electricity or modern conveniences. Lives from two different worlds come together as the team literally gives blood, sweat and tears for their new found friends at Sandy Bay.

    Tears in the rain will encourage, inspire and prepare you. Discover for yourself if you are ready!
    Tears in The Rain is, a challenging book with clips from the personal diary of the team leader of a short term mission trip. In this labor of love, thirty individuals become a family while building a village Church, as a gift, for the people of Sandy Bay on the Island of Saint Vincent in Grenadians.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9781481771665
    Tears in the Rain
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    Jack Thomasson

    Jack E. Thomason and his wife, Sharon, have been married 48 years served in full-time ministry with Youth for Christ for twenty five years. They served as a team working with troubled youth and their families. Their home became a refuge to teenagers. Jack and Sharon are graduates of Arlington Baptist College/ Bible Baptist Seminary. They stepped out of the stereotype for pastors to their first love, sharing the message to those who have not heard. They call it, “front line ministry.” Jack’s favorite saying is “Jesus did not pastor a church, he when where people are, on the streets!” In Michigan Jack fulfilled his internship with YFC and conducted ministry in five cities simultaneously. He directed the Lifeline Ministry in the Petoskey,MI area and oversaw the NYPUM Program (National Youth Program Using Minibikes). He became a certified instructor and received fifteen new Honda minibikes as ministry tools. He rode his first 500 mile bicycle trip and canoed the Au’sable River by canoe with his Lifeline teenagers. In Texas, home for Jack, they directed a youth center, ran ministries in four cities. Conducted ski trips to Colorado. They organized the Youth Guidance ministry to troubled teens, put together a Youth for Christ summer youth conference for 500 teenagers on South Padre Island. A Project Serve trip into Mexico to El Castle Delray led to Project Serve, to The Dominican Republic. Jack and Sharon served as a team leader with Project Serve to the West Indies. They served with teams that built a high school on the Island of Saint Vincent. They fell in love with a primitive, isolated and forgotten village called Sandy Bay. Back to Michigan, home for Sharon, where a new ministry was started in the basement of a store front downtown. The first ministry there was a trip to Washington D. C. and basketball tournaments on Main Street. Jack was diagnosed with Parkinson Disease and he could not keep up with fulltime youth ministry. Jack’s next book, “Silent Journey” centers around the diary he kept after the tragic death of his daughter-in-law. He became a Mr. Mom to, his three month old and fifteen month old grandsons.

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      Tears in the Rain - Jack Thomasson

      AuthorHouse™

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      © 2013 by Jack E. Thomasson. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 06/27/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7165-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7166-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control: 2013911779

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Thoughts Of Sandy Bay

      A look at values

      Back to the Village

      A Vision for the Work of Reaching Others

      God’s Time Table

      Your Heart must be right

      Back to Sandy Bay

      A look at a Servant’s Heart

      Bill

      Knowing God’s will

      Team Work

      Motivation

      Why are you just standing there?

      The next installment of our life changing experience at Sandy Bay

      Sharing

      Depression

      My last night in Sandy Bay

      INTRODUCTION

      Tears in the rain forever changed my life. Tears from a little girl I never knew crying in a small island village. Tears I still hear sometimes when I am alone. It may seem like trivia in our rush, rush society, but she touched my life and brought tears to my eyes. I write, this book, in the hope you too, might place yourself where you can hear tears in the rain.

      I sat on the examining table talking to our family doctor, I had an ear infection and after he finished diagnosing me we got into a conversation. He had just returned from a short-term mission trip. As we talked I began to realize he was excited about his trip, but had real trouble evaluating the results from such a trip. I could tell he was blessed, but felt inadequate compared to the need. I have been a team leader for several short term trips, with Youth for Christ and I realized there was not much material for preparing people for this type trip and or for helping them evaluate the real results from their trip.

      So much can be accomplished on short trips. In a realistic way it may be the best way for some to serve in missions. You may hear the call to full-time missions. I never attended a trip where I failed to pause and pray to God, Send me here as a missionary! He never chose to send me to a foreign field permanently but, God never failed to bless me and touch my heart on a single trip.

      I hope reading the account of a mission expedition to Sandy Bay on the Island of St. Vincent of the Grenadines in the West Indies will give insight into some people who discovered the joy of the servant heart

      If it does nothing more, I would hope this book inspires you to step out and listen for the tears in the rain!"

      Too many gentle nudges,

      To oft the still small voice

      Came to me,

      To have rendered another choice

      Rejuvenating freedom from within,

      Oh what heavenly joy

      In laughter of the family,

      The smile of a little boy

      More than I can count,

      What some give to circumstance?

      Though the wrong decision made

      The heart was made to dance

      So much the feeble mind can’t grasp

      Nor ever try to explain

      How a rebellious soul could not suppose

      I can be born again!

      The body is not always changed

      The smile not always shows

      But, deep within the change is made

      And the Father surely knows

      Benefactors of what no one can grant

      Or say was theirs to hold

      Divinity became mortal

      The darkest tears God can turn to gold!

      THOUGHTS OF SANDY BAY

      Sandy Bay is a small Village on the North shore of St. Vincent in the West Indies. A few rough wooden huts line the ocean shore.

      On a rainy Thursday afternoon, we first saw Sandy Bay. We just completed an hour ride down a road that went from pavement, to gravel to a rutted trail. Civilization seemed to have left Sandy Bay behind.

      The house we were to use was deserted and had been empty for several months. Broken windows, faded paint and a general state of disrepair greeted us. This was a particular shock to our system since we had just moved into a brand new home back in the states. My first reaction was that the teenagers who were to arrive in twenty-four hours would never survive in these conditions.

      There was no electricity, the plumbing did not work and we soon found out it was common for the water pressure to fall so low it could be used only during certain parts of the day. A six-inch hole protruded from the ceiling where rain had leaked in for an indefinite period of time. To say the place was rundown was an understatement. I shuttered a shallow prayer asking God to bring things together for us. He was soon to answer that prayer.

      The four-wheel drive pick up truck that had been loaded down with supplies disappeared into the evening. Sharon couldn’t fight back the tears as a dear friend, Walter, from another village on the island called out, in the darkness… Remember you are safe in the arms of Jesus. He may never know how many times we reclaimed that promise during the next two weeks.

      Twenty four hours later a bus bearing thirty people arrived. There was a stunned silence on most of the faces after the long ride down the dirt path some called a road. Surely this was the most unlikely mission to succeed yet God transformed this situation into the most meaningful event of my life.

      Teenagers as diversely mixed as anyone could imagine and a group of bewildered adults, who were themselves in a state of shock, mingled in a dimly lighted building. They sat silently as I greeted them and informed them that the building was dim because there was no electricity in the village. To make the whole greeting more reassuring I informed them they would need to set up their camping style folding cots before they could get any sleep and that there would be no showers until morning when the water pressure would be back.

      From the first moment a team began to form. Guys helped girls carry baggage up the hill to the girl’s house. There was a subdued attitude yet there was an air of togetherness that never left the group.

      As we talked together I discovered there were people especially equipped to fill all the duties necessary to make the trip a success. One woman, Georgia, volunteered to operate the kitchen Dorothy, the grandmother in the group, began planning clean up details and another would organize Bible School.

      The list went on and on, each time I mentioned a

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