Sunday, September 29, 2013

"A" Team

Four of the six brothers who are taking the Pacific Islands Bible College preaching school made "A's" on their first test and all six bothers made a passing grade.

These three brothers and........












 
this brother all did well on their first test.

Way to go brothers!  We are very proud of you all!














We will not be having Christmas for any of the kids this year.  Lee and I live on an Army base in the pacific ocean.  We have provided Christmas and usually lunch for the last five years for all our church family.  We have a secured dock area we have to go through to ride a ferry over to Ebeye.  Security ALMOST did not let us through last Christmas.  They have made security even tighter throughout this year.  If we use the mail they can cut our mail service off completely and refuse to let us through the dock with any of the boxes.  IT STINKS!!  WE HATE IT!! But, we do have to play by their rules,....no matter how stupid the rules are.  We will be looking for ways to change this next year, but for the 2013 Christmas, that is the way it is.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Ebeye Church Location Change

This is four of the six guys who took their first preaching school test.  We don't know the results yet, but I think it is safe to say, some will pass, some will fail. All will learn more about God's word if they stick with it and study hard.
God is good, God is great!  We now are meeting on Ebeye at the Community Center every Sunday morning. The heat of the afternoon was too hard on everyone. The building is open on both sides and there is usually a breeze, plus we have plenty of room to grow. We have needed this move for a long time. The Ebeye City Hall gave us a great monthly rate too. Lee and I are going to be going to Ebeye one week and Gugeegue the next.  Our Marshallese brothers will be preaching at the church's when we are gone.
To God be the glory! Praise be HIS Name!

Monday, September 2, 2013

Government Blankets

The preaching students studying during class.

I would like to tell you that we are getting all the help in the world from the US Army in getting the students onto the base to learn to preach God’s word.  Unfortunately, I am ashamed to say about my government, that would not be the truth.  They have now created a NEW blanket regulation to keep the class from happening in our home on Kwajalein. I bet if it was a Muslim class they would have broken their necks to accommodate.
 


We are going to meet at the church building on Gugeegue while we work on getting over the multi government hurdles. Meeting on Gugeegue has its own set of hurdles for the guys as well as costing us $120 per week for the taxi rides to Gugeegue.  God never promised us cheap or easy. To God be the glory!

For now we are meeting in a private home for church on Ebeye.