During a three-day training event in October (pictured above), several of the participants gave reports about what they are doing with Timothy Leadership Training (TLT). The most interesting was a young man who, after taking the training module on Christian Stewardship, organized a pledge-drive to purchase a set of drums for his church. If this doesn’t sound like a big deal, note that the average weekly offering in a Haitian church is not more than $20 USD while a set of drums in Haiti cost over $1,200 USD. Because of the Spirit’s blessing, faithful promotion, and good planning, the church raised the full amount for the drums in only a few months. Hope and trust in God’s provision radiated out of this young man’s report. Because of this success, the church is now motivated to tackle some tough problems in its neighborhood it felt formerly powerless to touch.
Surprisingly, one of the greatest struggles we have in ministry in Haiti is finding out what is going on. Haitian culture generally does not place a lot of emphasis on reporting and we don’t have a lot of money to hire staff to track information down. Often, we find out about the greatest results of our work coincidently. Recently, we made a proposal to Timothy Leadership Training (TLT) International to fund a small scholarship that will pay for the travel expenses of trainers who covenant to go “off the beaten path” and train in isolated communities. The condition of this scholarship is that the trainers have to give a full report of the results of their seminars. Six pastor/trainers (pictured below with certificates) have agreed to be part of the program. One pastor, Obed Laventure, has already broken ribs trying to get to his training station on a motorcycle as there are no roads and bridges to the community. Pray that God will use these six trainers for his glory.
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