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The rugged but beautiful shoreline of the Jean-Rabel area.

Our training team went to the area in April.

Two participants enjoy stimulating and challenging bible study that is part of the TLT program.

One feels very small confronted by the vastness of the sea and the impenetrable hedge of cactus and thorns in the desert landscape around Jean Rabel. 

In 2011 a group of pastors in the area of Jean Rabel met at the guesthouse of the Nouveau Kiskeya Project just a stone's throw from the Atlantic Ocean.  At the meeting in 2011, our ministry team presented Timothy Leadership Training (TLT) as vehicle that could, with the concurrence of the Holy Spirit, bring about growth and renewal to churches and Christian leaders.  For three years we trained this group of pastors.  After the final training in July, 2014, we empowered the group to organize and spread the training.  TLT yielded some good results.  One very impressive story comes from Marc who took the training on Christian Stewardship.  Afterwards he sat down with a brother whose family lived in desperate poverty in a mud and palm-frond house.  Marc and his brother made a plan to save money to purchase cement blocks, wood trusses, and sheet metal roofing for a new home.  By April, 2016, they had amassed all the materials necessary to build the new house.  This is an amazing result in an area where people are living on less than one USD per day.  Furthermore, the last year has been characterized by massive drought and crop failure in the Jean Rabel area because of the El Nino effect. It was a blessing to hear Marc's story and the stories of so many others who have been using TLT in the Jean Rabel area.  At the end of April, 2016, we spent three days with the group of pastors doing further training and coaching.  We pray that through these efforts and God's blessing, the work of TLT will yield fruit in this isolated but beautiful area.