Update from Dominican Republic

Returned home yesterday after another awesome week in the D R with my Haitian brothers. God always seems to have surprises for me on each trip and this was no different. I even experienced my first earthquake. Very freaky, but it has given me a greater appreciation of what it was like for the Haitians (on a smaller scale). The goal for this trip was to strengthen our relationship with the Haitian Pastors and explain more of the vision of The Project. I met 8 new Pastors in the Puerto Plata area and one in Santo Domingo. The men are very excited about the project. We have asked them all to be praying that God would help them to select one man each from their congregation to join them at the John Piper conference in June. We will be taking at least 30 Haitian men to this conference in early June. On Sunday, my wife Debbie and I, as well as Rosvelt and Pastor Joseph, travelled to the south side of the island to attend the International Baptist Church. This is probably the largest evangelical church on the island. They are hosting the conference and had invited us to come visit and explain more about The Project. We had a great time worshiping together and were taken to lunch by Filipe, head of missions for the Church. He also invited a Haitian Pastor, Wilfred, to join us. The Church is going to ensure that our Haitian brothers will have Creole translation available for the conference and are investigating ideas on housing and feeding our Haitian brothers. God is so awesome. His plans are above ours. Where else would you rather be. We do understand that the enemy will be hard at work to disrupt these plans. We are in a battle and must be earnestly praying. Please pray with us.