Missing Preacher

Church service was very interesting today. Paul Hester went home on Monday and Lee is in Honolulu today on his way back home from classes in San Diego. We had two full taxi loads come to church. There were two men that were just baptised about a week and half ago and the rest were women and kids and no preacher. I talked one of the men through doing a great job for the Lord's Supper. I had a DVD to play on the TV and player for a sermon. I taught the kids class, we took the Lords Supper and I tried to pop the DVD in the player and the player wouldn't work. I walked a really fine line trying to not preach to the crowd but giving a really short run down on what they missed. All I could do was apologize and say, Lee will be back next week. We missed you Lee! Please come home soon. We need a preacher! Amen Brother!

Baby number 3

We had another mother with a baby show up at church today. The lady on the right was one of our regulars who came with her friend (or relative) who has a 3 week old baby girl. She had little boy clothes on him. She probably heard we give baby clothes to new mothers, but that is okay. She was at church and we have the chance to tell her about Jesus. If you have any baby girl clothes please mail them with some disposable diapers this week to Avis Cummings PO Box 1652 APO, AP 96555 Please keep in mind it is 86 degrees every day of the year here so onsies and shorts or dresses for girls are great. Also keep in mind that this baby is already 3 weeks old. Babies grow fast, no need to send newborns. Start at 3 months. Any baby or kids clothes of any size will not go to waste. Blessings to all.

Greenlawn

Thank you to Greenlawn church of Christ for the support they sent to help pay for the taxi's during our Gospel Meeting. We have to pay to catch the taxi between Ebeye and Gugeegue. The absolute worst road I have ever been on in my life time. This pic is of one of our taxi loads. The mission was a huge success. We have six new brothers and sisters in Christ. That is more than double what we did have. The building is so close to being finished we can actually see the end of the tunnel. May God Bless you all for your help.

Paul Hester

Thank you to Paul Hester who worked many long and hard hours to preach and teach to the lost. He spent a lot of his own dollars to make this mission a success. Paul baptised six new brothers and sisters into Christ. Paul worked really hard on the building. We are so close to finishing we can smell the end. The bathroom was almost finished. All we like are a few plumbing parts that we could not get locally. Paul put in a new water catchment to catch the water running off the roof so we can flush the toilet or anyone staying at the church building can take a shower. I can not begin to name everything Paul did. Thank you Paul. The Gugeegue church is very blessed to have you in their corner.

Baby Clothes

A big thank you to Angela Caswell and Dean & Becky Lightfoot for baby clothes, toys and personal items for the kids. Nothing ever sent goes unused.

REJOICE!!

To God be the glory! We had a wonderful day 4 of the Gospel Meeting. We have six new brothers and sisters in Christ who were baptised in the pacific ocean. This is Jessica, Heity's daughter, who's Grandfather was the first Christian on Ebeye. The Angels are rejoicing with Jesus Christ in Heaven. Our brother in Christ. God has provided some men to lead the Gugeegue church. These are all six who confessed Jesus Christ as their Lord and were baptised. The two on the right side are husband and wife. Their five kids have been coming to class for quite a while. He works on Kwaj. She is related to Sapong, the husband of Heity who passed away. Rejoice! And again I say Rejoice!!

3rd Day of Gospel Meeting

We had a great third night for our Gospel Meeting. It was sunny and dry all day. We had to get three taxi's to carry around 40 people from Ebeye to Gugeegue to hear God's word. We are praying that we will have several responses to God's invitation tonight, the last night of the meeting. To God be the glory, praise his name!

Day Two of Meeting

We had a good crowd for day two of our meeting. Praise God, lots of men showed up to the church service. They worked on getting the white walls up today. Notice you don't see any 2x4's showing on the walls any more. Hopefully they will get the ceiling covered today. It was really crowded on the ferry ride over to Ebeye. I felt like I was in a sardine can. Stuffed in there. We have to leave Kwaj when most of the workers are going home from their days work in order to make it to Gugeegue in time for the church service. Those precious souls have to stuff onto those ferry's twice a day to make a living. Count your Blessings people!

Sunday Gospel Meeting

This is Paul preaching at the Sunday night meeting. Praise God, we even had some men show up a second time. It rained in the morning on the way over and again on the way home from the evening worship. Everyone in the back of the pick up were drenched. With all the rain the roads are rougher than ever. I would dearly love to get a couple step vans so we can all get to church dry. Count your blessings brothers and sisters. We were up stairs with the kids for our bible class. Notice that we now have walls and doors up stairs. We also now have a toilet that works. YEA! There is a shower area and a place for a sink they will be putting in this week. They will have all those hooked up to water before it is all finished. Paul is staying at the church building to save time and money going back and forth every day. Lee is going over today and several men said they would help work on the building. Of course we are holding the Gospel Meeting Sun-Wed. Pray that God will touch the hearts of several souls this week. The second baby boy was born on Aug 5th. You can't tell in this pic, but he has a whole head of black hair. With all the heat, he is already fighting heat and diaper rash. The women were mixing some local remedy that was handed down from one generation to the next to put in the babies bath to cure the rash. Another precious blessing from God.

Rain, Rain and More Rain

We have been 25" behind in our rain fall. A preacher is like a state fair coming to town......the rain will come. It has rained every day since Paul came to Kwaj. It rained 2.28" yesterday alone. We needed the rain but I hope it stops until after Paul and Lee leave. The already rough road between Ebeye and Gugeegue is even rougher and harder to travel. Those little taxi's (foreign dual cab pick ups) almost get lost in the puddles. It makes the trip much longer to travel back and forth to Kwaj. Once they get the bathroom completed at the church building Paul will stay at the church building to cut down on cost and the extra time required to travel back and forth. There are some locals who are helping on the building. Lee is getting stronger each day recovering from the flu and will take Sat. off and Mon. to help out. Pray for our continued progress.

Mission Report

We had our first Sunday with Paul Hester preaching. You can't tell by this pic, but we had three men and several of our regulars to attend. We pray the men will return to worship with us again. We had good numbers of kids and adults in the AM service. One of the taxi's delayed half the group from getting to the church building but the adults joined the kids up stairs and we had a good sermon from Paul. We held our evening service in the yard of Chris, a Christian who was baptised last year by Robert, one of the preachers who helped build the church building. Some of the local people were sitting on there porch listening to Paul's sermon. It was pretty hot, but the ocean was right behind Paul. The roosters were crowing and the chickens were running all over the area looking for anything to eat. Not something you see every day in the states, but pretty real for the islands. I warned Paul about the flu going around before he came. Lee ended up staying at home in the evening because he has caught the flu. He was supposed to go with Paul today to work on the building, but stayed home to avoid spreading the germs and because he feels terrible. Lee has already taken off tomorrow to work on the church building. Hopefully he will be well enough tomorrow. Some of the men from Ebeye and Gugeegue are supposed to help Paul today.