Erick is Back in Liberia for Three Weeks

Erick Wowoh is back in Liberia for three weeks to plan for the next phase of the school campus. Plans have been drawn for a new cafeteria, health clinic and additional classrooms. 


Up to now, they have built an elementary school, high school, literacy training center, computer training center and a church. These currently serve about 1500 students and teachers. Pray that all goes well with the trip and the the project continues to bring help and hope to the people of Liberia. 

Haiti Team Leaves for Picot Next Friday

Our Haiti team is pretty jazzed! They leave next Friday for our annual mission trip to Picot, Haiti. We have developed some pretty deep friendships with our Sister Church over the past two decades! This team will spend a week ministering alongside our Haitian brothers and sisters. They have planned special events for, men, women, and children. In addition, they will make home visits and do food distribution.
The photo is of the new school being built in Les Rois, one of our district churches.

Heart of Grace School COMPLETED in Liberia!

My dearest friends and partners,

Praise God, the Heart of Grace School in Liberia reopened on Monday, September 12, 2011. We have finally been able to complete the entire physical structure of the school including painting, except for the ten rest room facilities that we will still have to work on during the weekends when the students are not in school.

I can assure you that the children will returned to school with total astonishment at the wonders of God who changed their entire school from a little school building in the middle of nowhere to a magnificent and elegant building.  

We are very excited about the way everything was fulfilled in bringing us to this milestone. Thanks a million for all of your love and support of this worthy cause—especially to my church, Trinity Bible Church of Lafayette, Louisiana, that stepped in just in time to enable us successfully complete this little project to the glory of God. As you have helped to put a smile on the faces of these poor children and their families, so God will do the same for you.

However, we encourage you to kindly keep praying for the rest room facilities to be completed as well. Truly, we cannot afford to have about a thousand people here on a daily basis without proper rest rooms.

Honestly, I couldn’t have been able to do any of these things on my own without your constant valuable help, support, encouragement, and of course prayers.

I am very grateful for being part of a bigger story!

I am very excited about your trip to Liberia. I can't wait to see you guys again face to face!

Eric Wowoh

Pastor Calixte is back in Haiti

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I greet all the members of Trinity Bible Church. I was very happy for my time spent with you at Lafayette. It was a profitable time for me. Thank you for your hospitality. 

I had a great trip back to Haiti. I arrived home last Tuesday night. Now it is raining a lot all over the country. God planned that to begin after my arrival, because I get scared when there is rain while on the plane.

I will be at Picot during the Weekend. I stay at Cite Lumiere in order to take courses during this week. My wife has visited me, and she and I greet everyone at Trinity Bible Church.

I Greet Pastor Tim and His wife, Pastor Dennis and his wife, Brother Mark Thomas and his wife, Brother Bob and his wife and Brother Bill and his wife. I also greet Brother Blake and Brother Picot Pete and everyone else. My wife is so happy for the new baby who was born into Pastor Tim’s Family. May God's blessings be on every one of you.

I will always pray for your ministry and I do love you all.

Translated By Stephenson.

Pastor Calixte's Son

Haiti Team has Returned - from Mark Thomas

 It was a good team and I miss them already. I wish our normal work / leisure / ministry lives could create the esprit d'corps produced by a band of brothers and sisters who must depend on each other in an uncomfortable environment while working for a transcendent cause. If we could bottle that, we could sell it in foyers of churches and the world would be the better for it.

The weather in Haiti was unseasonably cool and dry.  The transportation and other logistics went flawlessly. The team's health, energy levels and contributions were top notch.  The work for the Kingdom seemed to go better than planned.  

Mission accomplished.  

Haiti Team is Debriefing in Zanglais, from Mark Thomas

TBC team is in Zanglais at RMI Retreat Center. Those who've been here know where I'm sitting; others will have to come see.

We visited all 5 churches in Picot District. Les Rois school that TBC members have funded is 15% complete. They are happy with the progress and look forward to more financial gifts to finish it. The area desperately needs it.

St. Matherine parsonage is looking good. It is 50% complete with Pastor Samsung Louis living in 2 rooms with a wife and 5 kids. 

Bufforde  needs a new parsonage. Termites have had a Golden Coral buffet on pastor Delow's house. It probably won't survive the next hurricane.  Same with la Roche au Pont parsonage. 

Picot parsonage is 80% complete with 2 new American bathrooms and showers. AAA will upgrading accommodations to 3 stars soon. Y'all come on down!

We were privileged to visit a family in the village where the patriarch just died. They grieve well and vocally. We heard their cries all night. The funeral is Wednesday afternoon and pastor Calixte described what would happen. More later on that later.  

We saw lots of Hope for Kids and heard super stories of the impact that is having. Please celebrate Christmas in July by sponsoring a child to go to school.  Haiti's problem is a long term fix and education has to be a vital part of that. 

Our project this year is a mural on a parsonage outer wall. All team members contributed, the more talented ones did more of course.  It attracted quite a crowd and many willing hands, black and white, produced a colorful legacy of this trip.

Haiti Report, from Mark Thomas

Few things lift the spirits as singing. Especially when sung by Haitians in Creole. It will be the language of our singing in heaven.

We heard much of it today. First in church in Picot then again for a special time in La Roche au Pont. A district wide choir competition. The blancs sat on stage as ensemble after choir after quartet performed. It was like being judges for the Haitian Idol TV show. They were talented and passionate. They are in the worst of circumstances, but they also know music soothes the soul like nothing else.

Please pray with us: "Thank you God for the gift of music. When we sing we transcend Earth and her problems. Spread your love through gifted musicians around the world. Amen"