In God WE Trust!
Dear brothers and sisters!
Greetings to you in the name of Our Great God and Savior: JESUS!
I know full well that you are very familiar with this statement of faith, this motto, the American motto. It is true that many people in the United States of America want to do away with it. But it is more than a motto. It is a confession. It is a testimony of one’s allegiance. It says what kingdom one belongs to. It also unveils the person we turn to in prayer in times of joy, and the person we call upon in times of troubles.
We live in a messy world, in a troublesome world. We live in a world where human beings choose to lose their humanity. They keep pouring more dirt, more garbage on the image of God in them to the point where one can hardly see the humanness of humans . No compassion. No mercy. Selfishness and greed reign. They have completely deaf ears to the cries of their fellow men because all they can think of is “me, myself, mine, and I.” As a result, they have a daily public display of all kinds of violence. In the midst of these situations it helps to confess, “In God WE trust!”
We are in our third week where there is no school in many of the major cities, including Gonaïves. Preschoolers, elementary, middle, and high school students stay home because of the fear of violence. The college students for the most part, take the risk to go to school. More people are being killed, and kidnapped on a daily basis. Our government leaders do not do anything in the favor of the people. When one unit in the police force wants to do something in favor of the people, they become a threat to the safety of the country. So the problem is not “the gangs”, in this line of reasoning. It is those who are taking a stand. At this point only God can spare Haiti from a civil war. Thankfully, WE trust in Him!
Despite the grimness of the situation every night this week, hundreds of people filled our sanctuary to its capacity coming to praise God in prelude of the celebration of our 21st anniversary as a congregation. Great singing. Great preaching. Wonderful exuberance of praise to our God. In God WE trust.
I have to confess that I did not expect that many people to show up, even when we promised we would end the service earlier than we traditionally did. But every evening from 5:30 to 8 PM, prayer, praise, and preaching filled the place. I personally thank God for that. They minister to me when they showed by their recklessness, “In God WE trust!”
The University is moving along pretty well. As I said, over 250 students in four colleges are receiving a higher education. The orphanage progresses. We now have water. Brother Cody McDaniel and several others are working on solar panels for power. Brother Dan Barrick is working on barbed wire for the top of the walls, for safety purposes. Jude and his crew are working on the electrical wiring, plumbing, and laying the tiles which were yet to be laid. The safety rack (so that they cannot steal them at night) for solar panels for the health clinic is being completed this week. We keep moving slowly, but surely. So praise God for those progresses.
Please, please, please pray for the completion of the Church project at Marotte and consider giving toward its completion.
Remember the project of the wall of the fence of the University. The sooner we move to the campus of the University the better it will be and the greater our impact will be. We need 98,000 dollars for the fence.
Remember the expansion of the health clinic, we need an additional 110,000 USD for that.
We know tomorrow will be better no matter how you look at it because “In God WE trust!”
Yours and His,
Salonique Adolphe and Teammates