Progress in October

The Timothy Leadership Training event was held in the partially finished conference center.  We hope to complete the center with the help of several teams in the winter of 2015. 

A group of TLT students interact in one of MCD's administrative offices.

Since 2009 a major project of the Haiti field has been helping our partner, the Ministry for Christian Development (MCD), to build an office and conference center.  MCD is a small Haitian para-church organization that trains evangelical Haitian church leaders in isolated rural communities.  The conference center provides a central location for training events.  However, when not being used by MCD, we hope that the conference center can be rented to other organizations and individuals for their events.  The revenue from these rentals can support MCD's ministry which often faces financial hardships.  In October, the partially-completed conference center hosted our biannual Timothy Leadership Training event.  For three days, 60 Haitian church leaders learned practical ministry skills like pastoral care, stewardship, teaching, preaching and several others.  We give thanks that this event was a success even though we were in Michigan for our home-service and could not participate.  We pray that these leaders will continue to grow in the love and knowledge of God through this training.