Dear friends,

We just finished one of our best weeks in a long time. A music band called The Classic Crime was here, from the Seattle area.

I had no idea what to expect as we have never had a band here before but wow, what a week. These men were incredible, loving, humble servants of God. They encouraged and blessed all of us so much.

They performed songs from their albums on 3 different occasions and shared their faith. Thursday at our leadership/discipleship class we had 150 people. Hearing this "different" kind of music for the first time, the people just listened, but enjoyed it.

Friday at youth group, over 200 kids really enjoyed the band. Sunday they performed during Sunday school sharing their testimonies, gave a drum lesson and played some more songs. During church I interviewed the leader Matt McDonald about this faith and the ministry the band does, then they performed 3 more songs.

Our crowd of 490 people just loved them and their music even though it was in English. The Classic Crime gave our family a sneak debut of their new album which won't be released until spring. As good as their music is the personal side of these men is what shined bright, in all the points of light.

They even got to see a baby pig with a hole in its stomach at the dump, being cleaned of maggots, treated with iodine and bandaged up.

It took me all week to figure out what the "classic crime" was. I finally know the classic crime is that more folks don't know about this group, and listen to their music.

The Classic Crime is getting ready to do a country wide tour in January with other Christian bands. Thank you Matt, Justin, Al, Skip and Robbie, you guys are the best and...my new favorite band.

On another note, our generator of 6 years went down and we were without power on and off for a week or so. A church donated the money and we bought a brand new, $13,000 generator which has 33% more power than the one we had. More good news is we are getting parts for the old generator and will be moving it to the mission when repaired to be used for many more years, we pray. Praise God!

This week I am leaving Haiti to visit two places I have never been. I will be presenting our ministry in Seattle, Washington, and near the Twin Cities of Minneapolis. It was a coincidence the band was from where I am going in Seattle.

This will be about a 3 week trip, sharing the ministry in new locations, and raising much needed funds to finish our church. We have not started construction but need to have all the funds before starting so we are working on that. We don't have exact numbers yet but I feel we are about $80,000 short yet of building and finishing our school/church.

It is 80 degrees here so I am hoping it is at least as warm in Minnesota and Washington when I get there. Will you make this happen Pastor Jason and Pastor Dave?

All is well here, numbers in all our ministries are up, and momentum is great. God is really moving in all the points of light.

My family is great but getting sad that poppy will be leaving for a couple weeks. I told them, if someone sends a check for $80,000 I won't go but that hasn't happened so duty calls.

Thanks again for all of you who so faithfully support this ministry with your prayers and hard earned money. We are doing our best to be good stewards of what God gives us, through you wonderful folks. May God bless, tominhaiti