Praise His Name

We had a big crowd at church this morning. About 40 kids and 30 adults. We walked over to the dock. And the angels rejoiced with four baptisms. Our new brother and sisters in Christ. Praise his name! God is good. Paul was talking to another lady when we had to leave so we may have another sister. It was a great Gospel Meeting and the guys worked really hard on the building. Thank you Paul Hester and Jim Long for your extra large hearts and your aching backs. God Bless you both.

Better and Better

We had another good sized group studying God's word last night. I think we will have some baptisms at the dock in the lagoon on Sunday. Praise God, everything went much smoother than the day before. All the taxi's made it without breaking down, we made it to the ferry on time and they fixed our A/C yesterday and it was still running when we got home last night. God is GOOD! As you can notice the downstairs room is looking better and better every day. All the white boards are up and the windows painted. It is looking great! The upstairs is completely unfinished, but it should not take nearly as long to finish as the downstairs the next time they work on the building.

Flexability

There are three humongous lessons I have learned from living on Kwaj and going to church in Gugeegue: 1) Never take driving on a smooth, paved road in an air conditioned vehicle, to a church that is 20 minutes or less away for granted again. 2) Don't get upset about anything that happens on your way to church. You will get there eventually. One of the taxi's (small pick up) broke down (again) on the way to church. Luckily the second taxi came up behind them and we crammed as many as possible into the one taxi. We were not too far from Ebeye so the ones that would not fit in walked back to Ebeye, called another taxi and got there in time for the party. It was Jim Long's birthday so I baked him a plain Jane chocolate cake and Paul bought 5 gallons of ice cream. After the service we had cake & ice cream. Jim was as tickled as a kid with a new ball. Jim received several necklace's made out of sea shells from the Marshallese people that I'm sure he will be delighted to show off when he gets home. Lesson #3) There is no worse feeling than getting to the dock just in time to see the ferry pull away. Knowing that you will wait another 1 1/2 to 4 hrs. depending on the schedule for that day. We got back to the dock last night just in time to see the ferry pull off. Less than one minute late. We had to wait an hour and half for the last ferry of the evening. When we got home, the air conditioner to our duplex had gone out while we were gone. We have an upstairs bedroom and all the heat had gone up there. I turned two fans on and went to bed. It leads me to the analogy of what it will feel like when Jesus comes and we are standing there saying, "but I was going to follow you with all my heart in just a minute." I can imagine that same sick feeling of being left behind. Too late for a do-over then.

Gospel Meeting

We had a good start to our gospel meeting. Paul and Jim have been working on getting all the white board up inside. If you look at the past pics they are close to getting it all up. Outside view of the building. They did a great job on getting the outside painted.

It's Official

The guys painted the building on the outside and hung the church sign for the first time. Praise HIS name. There is another house next door to the church house. That is the next door upstairs window that you see that needs painting. Our Gospel Meeting starts tonight and runs each evening through Saturday night. Please pray for it's success. To God be the glory!