hi from Haiti, Sunday afternoon

Greetings from the big island. A busy week update!

Politics: Haiti's senators fired our prime minister, but President Preval quickly named a replacment who should be accepted. This is very important because Haiti has been on a good road to recovery, thanks some in part to our friend, Bill Clinton.

Victory Bible church: Today was a beautiful day and a great service. We had 390 people with 150 kids in junior church. Everything is going like a well oiled machine on Sunday mornings thanks to a great staff of about 40 helping me.

Leaderhship/discipleship training: This past week we had 85 young adults show up for our Thursday meeting. This really excites me to see so many people wanting to be trained for Christian service.

Youth group: We had our first youth group in the tent Friday night with 150 teens showing up. Jony did a great job with a giant tug of war, other games and a great lesson.

The dented table: With apologies to some wonderful men who spent a week making us a beautiful, 24 seat table, it is dented all over.

A few months ago, for a birthday celebration, the boys began to use spoons and plastic pop bottles as drum sticks during the singing of happy birthday. It was a hoot.

This began not only a birthday tradition but a bi weekly praise and worship time. The boys sing praise songs and over 20 of them, including the little ones, bang on the table with the bottles and spoons. Last night it happened again after supper. What a sight to see so many people, banging and singing and praising God.

I normally just sit and listen, and sometimes shed tears. Last night I noticed something I had never noticed before as the light hit the table just right. Thousands and thousands of marks, all over this table from the beating it has taken. Not broke or damaged, just marks.

Normally I might have thought we ruined something but as I looked, I realized that the marks these boys were leaving on the table, was only a glimpse of the marks they will leave on Haiti, for the next generation and beyond.

The marks and dents looked very beautiful as I thought of the joy around the table. I also thought that not only are these great memories for me, these boys will never ever forget these expierences and I can only pray and hope that some day, they will all have dented tables in their houses.

This is a busy week coming up. We have a band called Classic Crime coming and we are so excited to see how their ministry here in Haiti unfolds. You can find them on YouTube, several of their vidoes have over a million views.

Thanks again for YOUR part in this ministry, and for allowing me to be Jesus in Haiti, supported by you. May God bless all you do and touch and never forget to be Jesus where you are, shining that light, for a lost and dying world to see, starting where you live, work and play., tominhaiti