I can't believe it has been almost two months since I have update my xanga site. A lot has happened over the past few months that have kept us busy! So here goes the update.
In February we launched our Ligonier office. The office is set up in my study, where we produce teaching CDs, stock books and the Reformation Study Bible. We continue to get many calls from the radio broadcast and are able to send out a free offer each week. Dr. Sproul's teaching is being well received here in Trinidad! We thank God for this valuable partnership in enabling us to ground God's People in sound theology.
Also, in February we launched Mars Hill Institute of Biblical Theology. Our first class began with nine students. I taught the first part of Historical Theology. The students had their first exam on Saturday.We pick up with part two on May 9th. We are looking to have about fifteen students enrolled by that time. I leave for St. Vincent in Friday to teach in our MINTS center there and to teach a seminar to church leaders on suicide prevention.
In March we hosted 25 students from Reformed University Fellowship (RUF), Wake Forest University, NC. This was a wonderful team and accomplished a lot in their 7 day short term trip! They helped me set up the equipment that Ligonier sent down to reproduce CD'/DVDs and to print labels directly to the CD/DVD. I have never seen a machine like this! I can burn 10 CDs/DVDs at one time and print the label directly to the disk! This team went right to work and had the equipment running in a couple of hours. They also set up a new blog page for me at: www.missiontrinidad.blogspot.com/. In the mornings, some of the team members went to Carlsen Field to work on our Sunday School building for the children and another team went to Pastor Ricky's home to work on his house. In the afternoons they held a bible study for the kids in Carlsen Field and played soccer with them. At the end of the week it was very hard for them to leave because they really bonded with the kids there.
After the RUF team left we hosted MTW's Advance Medical Leadership Training team. A team of 33 doctors, nurses and medical providers were here for a week of mission training. Part of their training was setting up two on site clinics. We are looking forward to another team to arrive in August.
Our two radio broadcast continue to do well. The Lord is indeed blessing His Word. We continue to receive calls each day regarding information about our school, books, bibles, church etc...Sometimes it gets crazy and we have to unplug the phone! If not, we would get calls all night especially during the broadcast from 12:00am - 4:00 am.The first night we were on the air Adanna got a call at 2:00 am! She learned very quickly how to unplug the phone.
The church continues to grow as well. When the medical team left in January, we had over 60 people attend the next Sunday and each week since the attendance has been steady with new visitors almost each week. We hope to baptize the first person to make profession of faith from Carlsen Field next month.
Below are some photos from the past few months
RUF team members working at Pastor Ricky's home
Sunday afternoon lunch with the RUF team
RUF team working in Carlsen Field on our Sunday School building
Teaching in St. Vincent
Preaching in St. Vincent in one of our student's congregation
Hannah working on sending out Ligonier material to those who called during the Ligonier broadcast.
We celebrated Adanna's birthday on March 1st! She still looks good at ??? doesn't she?
In the studio broadcasting "All Night With Ligonier Ministries"
One of the RUF team members worked with World Vision Radio in
Texas. So our broadcast engineer let her behind the "mike"
Our first Ligonier CD production from the RUF team members who
worked on getting the equipment "up and running"
This is Richard! He is a student at our MINTS center here and works for Pizza Hut as a delivery person.
He also delivers product for our Ligonier ministry and delivers our mail to the post office.
He is a huge blessing to us!
Some of our kids from church and Carlsen Field enjoying a meal during our
monthly "fellowship" meal.
Saying our goodbye to the RUF team the night before their departure!
Comments (5)
Great update! And great pictures!
Thanks for sharing!
Wait a minute! You don't keep up with one blog, and now you have two?
And to forget how old your wife is! Tsk, tsk. Just remember that she and I are the same age---- 29.
All y'all (as they say in TX) surely do keep busy. You are such a blessing to the people around you.
So glad for an update! I read Mike your comment and he laughed about Mr. Quigley. Just the other day we were in the car singing Psalty the Singing Songbook together.
RYC: 29 is always the magic number.
Just when I start to get the hang of Xanga, people go flitting off to other blogs. It is all very disconcerting to the tech-challenged like me.
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