This past month has been very busy.
I went out to one of our country churches,pastored by Ylophane Dieuseul, in a mountain area called, L'azile. God is doing a great work out there. The congregation has grown and we have built a new school building where over 250 children attend and get a free hot lunch everyday.
We had a two fold mission as I went to visit this church. The first was to take 11 goats up in the back of our double cab pick-up truck over rough roads. It's a three hour trip. We did this to begin a goat project for the church and community. These are a special kind of goat that is relatively new to Haiti and much larger than the native goats. We gave ten families, one female goat each and the church keeps the other goat which is a male for breading with the females. The person who receives a goat does not pay for it but is required to give two kids (baby goats) back to the program. One will be given to another family and the other goes to the church to help it financially. The second reason for going was to hold a leadership seminar which went very well.
The other thing we did this month was coordinating and getting all the material into our Demier church for two classrooms and the church we are rebuilding in that area. This is no small feat when you consider hauling in everything you need on your head and by mule over mountains and through rivers for 3 hours. We have already carried in 100 sack of cement, 90 - 2x4's, 1,400 concrete blocks, 3 truck load of sand, 40 sheets of corrugated tin roofing, 40 bars of steel, food for two weeks to feed 15 people, and many other misc. items. These figures do not include all the material we hauled in for the first two classrooms we have already built for the school.
Last but not least, we had our Bible school graduation where 20 men and women graduated. They completed their three year Biblical and Theological study. It is always a joy to send equipped and trained laborers into the harvest field. We now have graduated over 370 students. This was our 21st graduating class, to God be the glory!
We want to thank you all for your prayers and financial support of God's work in Haiti. We could not do this without you and God's gracious favor.
