Another Preacher

Ramey Alex preached his first sermon at the Gugeegue Church of Christ on Sunday. He preached in Marshallese.  The Lord and the Angels in heaven were rejoicing. 

 Lee, Peterson and I travel every Sunday morning to Gugeegue to hold church services in the morning.  Lee leads songs and preaches in English and Peterson leads songs and preaches in Marshallese.  The Sisters that live in Gugeegue hold Bible Classes for the local kids.

We travel back to Ebeye to hold church services on Ebeye in the afternoon.  The Sisters that live on Ebeye hold Bible Classes for the kids.

Every week brings a different challenge. God is faithful to provide a solution every time. Praise God!

Worshipping the Lord

We are holding the morning worship in Gugeegue with about 25 kids for bible class. We worship with our Ebeye brothers and sisters in the afternoon.

We had about 10 adults for worship in Gugeegue.

This is Anne who was adopted by our brother and sister, Peterson and Yolonda .  She is a sweetheart.

One of our brothers picked fresh flowers for the front. Thank you God for your beautiful world.

First Sunday Services With Both Churches

We had Sunday services at Gugeegue in the morning.  I think we ended up with 15-20 kids for bible class.  God is good!

Dan taught the kids bible class on Ebeye and Paul delivered the sermon in the afternoon. It was our first Sunday holding services at both Gugeegue and Ebeye.  We had to go to plan B, C and D, several times.  But, it all worked out for the glory of God.

Paul and Dan made a bunch of benches for our Gugeegue building as well as a lot of other work on the building. They will be returning to Alabama on Wednesday.

Thank you Paul and Dan for all your hard work on the building, but most of all for your love for the Lord. This mission work is not for the faint hearted.  God's blessings to Paul and Dan for trying and trying again.

Gospel Meetings

 Paul and Dan have done a great job with the Gospel Meeting this week.

We showed movies on the gospel of Mark before the messages.  We had over 200.  A lot of them were kids.  What a crop for VBS. I think you could get 500 kids in the Ebeye Community building.

It is great to be back in the Gugeegue church building. Paul and Dan have done a ton of work on the building.  The toilets in the community are all on sea water.  It is not unusual for the local utilities to break down, often.  The pumps to pump the sea water broke down so Paul  and Dan have been working on getting the toilets switched to the water catchment. 

The government stopped picking up the trash on Gugeegue over a year ago.  The community is burning their trash on the downwind side of the island.
What a blessing to have a government that makes sure you have your trash picked up and disposed of.  Water that is piped to your house to drink, take your showers, wash your clothes and flush your toilets. Not to mention electricity that is available at the flip of a switch at a cost of  less than 48cents per kilowatt hour and gasoline at less than $8.00 per gallon.

All for God's Glory

Praise God, Paul Hester and Dan Holder made it to Kwajalein, 12 hrs. late. The plane broke down somewhere on the trip to Hawaii. Paul and Dan were stuck in the Hawaiian airport. You have to get up at two or three in the morning to get on the plane to Kwaj.  We got them into the Kwajlodge (Kwaj hotel) for the night at 11pm. They were very tired. 
We went to Ebeye Sunday morning and they both did a great job kicking off our first day of the Gospel Meeting. We all came back to Kwaj after the A.M. church service and ate a great lunch at the cafeteria.  Paul had sent around 50 boxes of supplies that have been sitting in our front room for three weeks.  The guys had to make three trips from our house to the dock with our cart and hand truck. A man was supposed to bring his boat from Ebeye to Kwaj to take Paul, Dan and the boxes to Gugeegue.  Surprise! He did not show up. They waited for the ferry that runs to Ebeye and loaded all the boxes onto the ferry.  They then took the boxes to the Ebeye Community Center where we are holding the Gospel Meeting. It took loading and unloading those boxes seven times to get them to Gugeegue. God did not promise us easy. It is all for the Glory of Jesus Christ.