ABACO BAHAMAS

Calvary Church has been committed and supportive of Robin Weatherford and the International Gospel Mission since the 1990’s. Many of our youth have returned from Abaco on Summer mission trips perform-ing Vacation Bible Schools and minor church repairs with a great spiritual enthusiasm to proclaim their faith in Jesus.

Over the years there have been many mission trips to Abaco to do construction work on the church and to build a new Sunday School building.

The International Gospel Mission on Abaco was started in 1982 by Pastor Robin Weatherford. He was born and raised on Man-O-War Cay, a small island off the mainland of Abaco. He grew up in a Christian home and was saved as a young boy. His godly parents, Robbie and Alice Weatherford, not only led him to the Lord, but also taught him to serve the Lord. Before going into the ministry, he worked and did many jobs, from con-struction to working with Albury's Ferry Service. In 1974 he met and married Myrna Collins. Three years later their first child, a daughter they named Tabitha, was born. Having a desire to serve the Lord, they traveled the Bahamian islands holding childrenï¿1/2s meetings and evangelical services, until Tabitha was three years old. He felt called to be a missionary and God showed him the need for a missionary right at his home.

The abundance of Haitians on Abaco and their need to hear the gospel, compelled him with the Lord's direc-tion to begin a work with them. An incident years earlier when he had told a Haitian fellow working on a job with him where the man had told him that he had been in Abaco for many years and no one had ever told him