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One Truck and One Crate
You have heard of two men and a truck for moving well let us tell you how to furnish a house with a truck and a crate.
The longer we serve as missionaries the more God shows us how we can do with less and still be perfectly happy.
As you know Teresa and I started with a new mission in February this year.  In the mission house there were two rooms available for us to claim and furnish and make our “living quarters”.  We made one a bedroom and one a living room/office.  With some funds from us, family, and friends and a lot of hard work and expertise of Danny, Teresa’s brother, along with a little help from Sams and IKEA, we found out you can furnish two rooms quite well from a crate.
In seven days we painted the two rooms and a bathroom. Danny built a bed, 3 shelves, a desk, 3 towel racks, 3 clothes racks, a pulpit, a picture frame, refurbished a vanity and fixed the plumbing. Teresa and I assembled 2 chairs and foot stools, 2 rocking chairs, a closet, 2 …

Sunday morning found us heading up the mountain to the Casetashe Christian Church. A beautiful ride up the mountain along the coast and then we headed inland to get to the Church.  I had the privilege of sharing God’s Word with them as I spoke from 1 Peter chapter one. I reminded them of the hope we have in Christ if we stand firm as our faith is refined by fire.  The greatest Joy came after the service was over and we headed down the mountain to the river for four baptisms. The preacher had taught them well and 4 were ready to be baptized into Christ.  We loaded up the truck and started making our way down the mountain. As we were about to begin the baptisms a teen-age girl came down the path and asked if she could be baptized also. Well it turns out she had walked down the mountain by herself because she was so eager to be baptized. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
Praise the Lord, God has 5 new children who were born again and adopted into His family on March 27, 2011.

The last Saturday of March was a special day. Ten of our 11 pastors attended our first class in Christian Doctrine. In our first lesson we discussed, The Doctrine of God. Although we cannot ever fully understand God because man cannot begin to fathom His wisdom, we can learn many things about His nature and character that He reveals to us in His Word. Our class went very well with questions and answers as well as sharing together at break time with good ‘ole Haitian spaghetti. When we meet in April we will begin with a quiz over our first lesson before proceeding on with our second lesson. The students will be tested on each lesson. We are beginning slowly with our present pastors but hope to open these classes up  to new students so we can train future church leaders. In our next lesson we will look at, The Doctrine of Jesus Christ.