A highlight of the month was traveling down to the southern part of the island to participate in a Baptism ceremony for some of our small churches in the "batey" area--What a glorious time we all had!!!Fourteen new believers made their profession of faith in the Caribbean!!!
Here is the line...
A new believer...
Our family feeling very blessed to be a part of all this!!!
The ride back from the beach!!!!....
January started and ended with visits from stateside friends. It is such an encouragement to us when friends from home visit, especially when they come to see how they can get involved with the ministry here!!
Ralph and Elaine Marshall spent three days with us looking especially at our ministry's work in education here as they are both educators. We are very excited that they will be returning in July as their daughter leads a team down here.
Their visit was followed by three pastor/mentor staff from our home church. They visited pastors in the area to determine who they will be partnering with in the future. Thank you ECC!!! Here is Rachael with her old junior high pastor, Joel Craig!!
The month ended with a visit with Don and Cathy Roberts from ECC, our home church, who were down here helping build a beautiful playground in an area that surely needs one!! What fun it was to see them and dream a bit about a playground at one of our GO Ministry sites!!!...
We also got to visit another one of our pastors and his family that live in a more remote area in the mountains. Since they don't get a lot of visitors, they were so pleased to have us. And we surely were blessed by the visit too. Thank you Pastor Eddy and Fior...please keep them and their ministry in your prayers!
Please look to our sections to the right for our prayer needs, a support update, and a word of encouragement!!
Your support, encouragement and prayers richly bless us!! You are in our hearts and our prayers too. We are looking forward to our upcoming teams...see schedule below
More photos below too!!
By God's grace and for His glory,
The Dave Schwulst family