Today was a long day but I was so PROUD of the team. They worked REALLY hard. We tied re-bar, carried almost 400 hundred buckets of sand to the second floor along with a couple hundred buckets of water so we could mix concrete.
The church is looking great. The walls of the second floor are almost complete!
Days like this make me so THANKFUL for all of you back home at Cross Point who have never been here but have faithfully given for years to make the church here a reality. You guys are the best.
To all of you with family members here, you will be glad to know there were few, if any, significant injuries today. Just a few cuts and bruises.
Getting ready to eat some chicken and rice and then go get some ice cream!!
I can’t believe the second floor walls are almost done. That picture made me gasp! I know that I have to go back next year for one of the trips! How exciting!!!
that building looks great, so impressed with the second floor! bran
we miss you daddy – jett
i dressed like you today – gage
brewer misses you as well! jett says he has cried bloody murder without you!
praying for your team . . . The work looks great!
Many blessings,
Emily
It looks AWESOME!! I am so there next year! PLEASE tell everyone I said “HI”…
pete, i’m praying for you all……and remembering all the wonderful times on past trips. On my first mission trip my husband asked me to marry him…sitting on the floor on the 2nd floor of a church plant (in a storefront)…….ah, good times.
the church looks fantastic!! God is good!
Just reading your comments to the team has been so exciting. You’re keep their moral up.
Praying for you guys! Everything I read about your trip (from you, Brandi, Anne) just stirs my heart like crazy! Seriously, it physically feels like someone’s going to town with a wooden spoon inside my chest cavity.
Praise You, Lord!!
You guys are awesome! Is anyone carrying on the trench digging that I did last year?
Hope you guys get some good rest and that the ice cream helps you recharge:) Keep up the great work!
Woven.
Christianity is woven throughout our entire nation, being the very fabric that makes up these islands. It keeps the judgement of God from falling on us that is why we have been preserved from the many wars that have buffeted our shores.
We need never feel that the darkness that comes upon us is permanent, for the light of Christ will always prevail by dispersing it with his glory. We need not be troubled by wicked people, for our God is surely dealing with them. I am amazed when I see Christianity in all our great institutions, I cannot begin to speak of all our workforce, builders, lawyers, nurses, miners, factory workers, who make our nation so great and confess Christ Jesus as Lord, Well, the list is never ending, where God’s people can be found, Christianity is literally everywhere. It cannot and will not ever be removed from these islands.
Do not listen to doom prophets, when you hear them say things for example, like the abortion issue, they say, “surely this will bring God’s wrath upon us all, for that wicked thing that people do to our unborn children.” Well, God’s judgement will fall on them that commit such horrific killings, but I assure you, the righteous will not be included in God’s judgement.
We remember how God’s mercy is shown to us in Genesis 18:24-26, I quote,
“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee: Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, if I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
You can see from this scripture that God will surely spare our nation, because there are more than fifty righteous Christians living here. Now Jesus has told us that this world is inhabited by the children of the kingdom and the children of the wicked, and that He will not bring final judgement on the wicked until the end of the world, because He will not destroy the wicked while the righteous are here.
At the end of the world Jesus said in St Matthew 13: 41, – 43, “The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”And so, that is how we can be confident that God will not let us be overwhelmed by these recent troubles that we face in our nation. Praise God, for every born-again believer that God has placed in our lands.
EVANGELIST BILLY BOLITHO
http://www.evangelistbillybolitho.blogspot.com
Praying for you all every day. Thank you for doing God’s work there on our behalf.
@Jenni, So far so good. NO DIGGING!
@Jenni-they would not dare dig a ditch without you!!
WOW! The church looks great! I’m passing your blog onto some friends at my church in Murfreesboro. I request prayer for the team last night and I want them to see what their prayers are doing…. keep up the good work…
Ice cream… oh I loved the ice cream in the DR… wait… I always love ice cream….