Saturday December 1, 2007

The worship team went out for the first time today for a time of evangelistic outreach at the College Excelsior High School. In addition to the worship team playing we had a testimony by our children ministry leader and a sketch by the high school student on "Being a slave of this world". My short evangelistic message picked up on the theme of the sketch. I titled it: Freedom or Death. Since our forefathers fought to free the Haitian land of slavery in 1804, I asked the question "What generation is going to bring about the spiritual revolution". Are we braves enough to step forward and be a true disciple of Jesus Christ since there is no other name given to men by which we can be saved.
I also use 2 clips from the movie "The Matrix" to show that most people live in slavery and don't even care to know the truth but heros like Neo search for the truth and find freedom. We need to be braves enough to seek the truth and make the choice of taking the RED pill like Neo, but our red pill is the blood of our Savior Jesus-Christ.

Friday November 16, 2007

We had our first couple's meeting and we watched a movie together and shared drinks and popcorns. We had 4 couples who visited the church for the time because it was easier for them to come to a movie night than church service. One of these couples want to become regular attendees to our different services because the husband was ministered to.
We want to continue to minister to the different social groups using different types of outreach. The church in Haiti has a reputation of being a kill-joy making it kind of unattractive and burdensome to the unbelievers looking from the outside. Furthermore, the middle class thinks that the church is after their pocket. We want them to know that our main objective is to know God through His Word and have the abundant life Jesus died for.

November 9, 2007

Today we had our first volunteers appreciation evening and we needed volunteers to make it happens. It is very encouraging to have already 24 people serving in different areas of ministry: Computer Classes, High School Exam prep, children ministry, music, housekeeping, street kids ministry, etc. The volunteers donated the meat, the cake, and the church added sodas, and plantains. 3 leaders of the church spent all day Friday preparing for all of us to have a great time in the Lord.
We took the time to explain the vision of the ministry one more time.
If you ask any church about their vision, many would probably quote Matthew 28:19-20. What makes a difference though is that 1) we don't neglect verse 20 about feeding the flock the Word of God and 2) we do it in unity of spirit.
God really blesses us with wonderful brothers and sisters and we reminded them and myself not to make the mistake of the Galatians found in the beginning of chapter 3 of that book. We need to keep ministering by the Spirit. We remind them about how fragile we all are and how easy it is fall back in the flesh. I ask them to watch over me as I am watching over them so we can continue in the Spirit.

November 2, 2007

It has been raining for the past 5 days. Tropical storm Noel did a lot of damage in Haiti and many folks lost their lives. It does not take much in term of rain to create a chaotic situation here in Haiti because of years of deforestation. Port-au-Prince, the capitatl, is an accident waiting to happen because of the lack of urban planning. People builds house anywhere they want, the watershed, the ravines, and there is no control.

These are some pictures from different sources: UN, journalist, etc.

October 18, 2007

We had water baptism today, the second one since the church started meeting. 12 adults were baptized after about 20 minutes of worship and 45 minutes of teaching on baptism using the booklet from CCM translated in French.




We had a great time together and look forward already to the next one as a 10 years old girl from children ministry asked to be on the waiting list for baptism.

October 17, 2007

We started Matthew chapter 6 with the street kids today. Usually we don't meet during holidays and today was a holiday in Haiti: Dessalines death. I went there anyway and there was about 20 kids who showed up.
This Wednesday evening was the second time the church meets for mid week service and we had a good group showed up. This is very encouraging to see what the Lord is doing. We finished Genesis chapter 1. The closing comment: God is still saying "Let it be light" in so many areas of our lives because He wants to conform us to the image of His son Jesus-Christ. Let's not interfere with what He is doing in our lives.

October 14-16, 2007

After the Sunday service Edy Gehy and I went east of the border to meet a couple of Calvary Chapel pastors from Calvary Chapel Huntington Beach while they were in Barahona meeting with pastors from the Dominican Republic, a 3 hours trip by car.
We had a great time of sharing common visions for the Island and fellowship, encouraging one another in the Lord.

October 14, 2007

This Sunday once again there were no empty chairs in the church and the children ministry saw 21 children come to the Sunday school. Adeline does a great job there, helped by Mycka this time around. However, we need to send more helper to be trained by Child Evangelism Fellowship (AEE in Haiti) that Adeline heads.

October 4-7, 2007

Our friend Jim, Barbara (a long time young friend), my wife and I went to Passe Bois d'Orme, a village where Jim has been a missionary for 14 years, to celebrate with them the church anniversary. I had the privilege to teach for 3 days: Friday morning and evening, Saturday evening and Sunday morning. I have a few friends over there, locals and missionaries and it is always a pleasure for us to go over there. This time God allows me to see something different: so many young men who love God are searching for something different. They know that religion does not work but don’t really know the real answer. They are really attracted to the verse by verse expository teaching but need training. Help us pray that new workers would come to the harvest to train these locals to go and duplicate investing time in the Word of God, teaching others and set others free from the bondage of religion, the Law so they can have a real relationship with the Lord Jesus.

October 1, 2007

Today is the first day of the new session for the computer classes. At some point we had to stop registration since we don't have enough room nor computers to accommodate everyone. We have 88 students registered for Introduction I and II with about 6 hours of Bible study per week. We are going through the book of Romans with them.
God knew that I would not be able to handle the growth by myself and sent Edy Gehy and his wife Elsie to the rescue. They taught the 2 classes today where Edy shared his testimony and 2 young men gave their lives to Christ, one of them asked to be put on the baptism list for the next baptism opportunity. Praise God. This is what it is all about: people giving their lives to Christ. We know God is going to do much more this term. Many of the new comers don’t go to church and we have a great opportunity to present them the gospel on a weekly basis. God promises that when His Word goes out it will not return void but will accomplish what God desires.