We Arrived Safely! Praise the Lord!

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

God is an awesome God.  We arrived on the mountain safely and with no problems.  Bethlehem Church is doing well.  We will go to visit the house churches this month.  We have to walk, and it takes a while to get there, but they are all excited we are here to help share God's Word.

Pray for the Christians

Pray for the lost

Pray for the vision God has given us

Pray that God would work through us and use us in mighty ways

Thank you all for the prayers and monetary support so that we can be here to minister.

The two young ladies who came with us are, at times, overwhelmed, but very excited to be here.  It is more than they imagined, and we are very proud of them.  They are fitting right in, and the children love them.  They had their first experience with a huge spider in the outside toilet in the dark.  A little screaming, but they survived it!

Blessings to all of you.  We will send another update again when we can.

Carolyn and Terry

How is Your Heart?

How is your heart toward the lost?  Are you a Jeremiah, weeping for the lost and seeking God?  Or are you a Jonah, whining because the people don't listen or don't deserve, and running from God.  As we spend time with Jesus, may we become more like Him.  May He turn our whining into weeping, our self-pity into compassion, and our hard-hearts into tear-stained cheeks.

 

"We will become shrunken little people if all we are concerned about is our little world.  The Lord desires us to be big people:  expansive in our view of His world and a compassion for the lost." ~Jon Courson Commentary 

Acts 1:8 says we shall be (not should be) His witnesses.

Matthew 28:19 & 20 says to GO ye therefore (not if we want to, but it is a command).

How is your heart toward the lost?????

Everything we do has an evangelistic and discipleship motive behind it.

Blessings,

Terry & Carolyn

2018 Challenge

COME TO HAITI
Help us minister and disciple pastors and leaders of the local churches.  We have 13 groups now and would like to have some pastors and/or lay people come and help disciple in 2018 and/or 2019.  Are you up for the challenge????????

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

If you choose not to step out of your comfort zone, you will miss a glorious opportunity. If you are not interested in God's work, if you'd rather complain about your difficult situation or cruise in your easy one, God will still get His work done, but you will perish, not physically but the vibrancy of your walk, the joy of service, the opportunity and blessings of being used will be absent.

Quote from Jon Courson's Application Bible Commentary

July 2012 pictures Part 11



Sewing class



Banty chicken



  

Children carrying water



Sunday School class



Widow lady with infected legs whom Carolyn helped



Another house church



One of the school buildings

Bethlehem Church family

July 2012 pictures Part 10

House church

Another house church

Pastor Jespert's ordination ceremony

Pastor Jespert's ordination ceremony...he has one more year of seminary

Lady carrying water

Children carrying water

Goat - this is like one you can purchase for a family

This is the motorcycle many of you helped to purchase for Pastor Jespert

July 2012 pictures Part 9

Bus Ministry ;)

Widow lady in church - getting excited!

Older school children

Younger school children

Pastor Jespert and his wife, Madam Jespert

Songbook (left) and Bible (right)

Sewing machine for trade school

Two men going to work

Compassion

God has used my mom's passing to help me look at life and death differently than I had before.  In my quiet times, God has spoken to me very plainly about how thankful I should be to have had a godly mom who taught me about Jesus.  I am thankful that she is in heaven, and one day I will see her again.  He continued to speak to me about how I need to encourage others to ask for the compassion that Jesus had for the lost when He was on this earth.  Everyday we should be ready to tell others the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We should have a compassion for those that have not had a family to tell them about Jesus.  We need to make sure they have an opportunity to hear.  Make an effort to share Jesus with someone.  You and I had the opportunity; shouldn't others?  Who will not go to heaven because you or I did not tell them?  Think about it:  this life is short compared to eternity.  Scripture says to ask and it will be given you.  Ask for compassion for the lost and see what God does through you.

 

Blessings,

Carolyn