Dear friends,

Just a little update: Victory Bible Church: This week was very sad for us as our pastor, Jackie Delice resigned. Pastor Jackie has been our pastor for 2 1/2 years and we love him and his family so much. Pastor's reason was that he felt God had something else for him and he could not commit his whole heart to our church. I accepted his resignation but there were many tears shed Wednesday at our staff meeting.

Last night I shared with the congregation that Pastor Jackie has resigned and we took the time to honor and thank him, although he was not in attendance. Please pray for our church as we seek to find a permanent replacement for our pastor.

Victory Bible Church continued: We only have a couple services left at the church we now rent on Saturday nights. In early September we will be meeting at 8 a.m. on Sunday at current church, and walking the mile and a half to our mission property, to have our first church service on site, in our big tent.

Grace Emmanuel: Speaking of the tent, this large 40' by 60' tent is leaving Florida on August 13th. We hope to have it a few days after that so we can set it up. This tent will be home to VBC, and will hold about 250 people. The tent will also be our school divided up in to the 10 classrooms we need.

The tent has brought lots of excitement and energy to our ministry. We anticipate being in the tent for about 6 months while our new building is being built, finally.

Sponsorships: We have 16 new students this year at our school that will need to be sponsored. In a few days all 16 pictures will be on our jesusinhaiti.org website for you to choose and sponsor. We are praying to get all of these students sponsored quickly, as this is about $500 of our monthly budget so badly needed.

Club 365: We will also have information in the next couple days about how you can be a part of this club, which is such a vital part of our daily ministry. Thanks to the dozens of you who participated in this for the past year. It is a unique way to honor someone you love, by helping sponsor one day of our ministry. More info coming.

Voodoo dust: Many of you asked me what this was. It is a powder that the voodoo master makes, then puts a curse on it and when someone comes in contact with it, they fall under that curse. Sometimes it is thrown at someone or put on the ground and if someone steps in it, they can be cursed. Normally the curse is going lame in your legs, one or both.

Many, many people have died from curses, so say the people. That is something that I guess we can never be sure of but it is what they say.

Finances: As we make our move to our new property, for church and school, we have many financial needs. The first priority is getting a bathroom built, and benches made. It would be difficult to start school without a bathroom or benches. We are about $2,000 short to complete 22 benches, and a bathroom for our school kids. (a real bathroom)

Church last night: With pastor leaving kind of sudden, I was a last minute replacement for preaching last night. I preached on Matthew 4 and how Jesus handled the temptations Satan threw at him.

I had one of my boys, Sonson, dressed to look like Satan, and he stood close to me while I preached on whether Satan is real, is he dangerous, should we fear him. The secret I shared was to fight Satan with scripture. That is what Jesus did in Matthew 4. He said "it is written, then he answered."

As I talked about thoughts and temptations Satan puts in our way, every time I gave the answer, "Satan it is written" and gave a verse to go along with it. What was unique is every time I said it is written, I hit Satan over the head with my Bible. I kept telling people to hit Satan with the Bible, which I did 10 or 12 times to Sonson.

It was a great visual which the people really liked and understood. Sonson has a hard head so he is okay.

Thanks: Thanks again for all your help. This ministry could not happen without you. May God bless all you do and touch, tominhaiti