Pastoral reports...

Pastor Jean Fils Reynold has two children and pastors a small church in Gessier, near Port au Prince, Haiti. He has been a TLC student and is a future group leader for TLC, gathering twenty-five other Haitian pastors of training.  He summarizes the work with these pastors in these words--"They are all satisfied and they praise the Lord!"

Married with one child and pastoring in St.Helene, Les Cayes, Pastor Bernard Jean Dernier writes, "From TLC training we learn to be brothers and sisters in Christ.  We really used to work apart form each other; through the TLC group we learn to share, plan and practice together.  We sit down and train together with the materials from TLC."  He adds..."Please support TLC's training..."

Testimonies like these encourage us as we prepare to return November 9-16 to teach the second half of NT Survey l.  Steve Wilhite and Matt Hulgan, two fellow pastors, will be joining me for this class.  The cost of each class is about $4000 for meals, transportation, translators, etc.  If you would like to help with these costs in investing in the 500 plus pastors we are serving, you can mail your gifts to TLC, 1717 N. California Blvd, Suite 3B, Walnut Creek, Ca 94596.

thanks again

Any time I post a need for our Haitian brothers the response has always been incredible from my friends.

Thanks to you we were able to order the additional textbooks for our trip in November.  Now over 550 pastors will have access to the NT Survey textbook we are using that will guide their studies long after we leave.

Our next topic will be "Basic Bible Doctrine", to be taught in 2014,  At that time 550 textbooks will need to be ordered so you can already join me in prayer for that big project.  It will be the last class in our curriculum for those pursuing our diploma course.  It's exciting to think about these pastors, armed with the Word of God, teaching their own people.

Thanks again for your part!

More pastors...more textbooks needed

It is a great problem to have.  We have already supplied 500 textbooks to our pastors in Haiti for New Testament Survey...and we now need fifty more!!!

These textbooks are a link to further study for our pastors following our teaching classes.  We taught the fist half of NT Survey in May and are returning in November to finish the second half of the class.  The 12-15 hours we spend at each site each session are not nearly enough to adequately teach the class in the depth we would like.  However, the textbooks are excellent tools for continuing study and in-depth research of the study materials presented.  In a sense they are a portable tutor for the students to carry back to their villages with them.

You can help us purchase these @$10 each.  I am hoping to return with fifty of them in November.  If you'd like to help us, send checks made out to "TLC Haiti" with "textbooks" in the bottom corner.  Here is the address below.

The Leadership Connection

1717 N. California Blvd.

Suite 3D

Walnut Creek, Ca 94596

Att:  TLC Haiti

Thanks for joining us in prayer for our brother Haitian pastors as they seek to study the Word so they can teach it more effectively.

Dale, Director
TLC HAITI

Logan and Gilbert give great reports on Les Cayes...

In the last few days I have had opportunity to visit with both Logan and Gilbert about their class in Les Cayes, teaching Romans to 150 eager Haitian pastors and leaders.  Their reports are exciting because they highlight the importance of what we have purposed to do there--help to lay a good foundation in the Word so that these pastors can effectively teach their people.

On our TLC Haiti website--www.leadconnect.org/Haiti--you can read Gilbert's personal account of this event which he coordinated and also assisted with teaching and translating.  I hope you'll take a moment to read it later this week!

CAYES SEMINAR THIS WEEK IN HAITI

Logan Carnell and Gilbert Jules are teaching the Book of Romans is Cayes this week, the third largest city in Haiti.  This is a required course in our curriculum at the Pastoral Training Institute in Haiti.

I have been relocating in Arroyo Grande, California on the Central Coast so I missed this teaching trip--but know that the teaching is in "good hands" with Logan and Gilbert.  Please remember them in prayer August 5-9 as they share each day.

UPDATE ON MAY TRIP

Our website is a great place for staying up to date on our ministry in Haiti. heck it out at www.leadconnect.org/Haiti. Our trip May 11-19 was a wonderful success with 410 pastors participating in Port au Prince and Cayes.  It was exciting to share the textbooks printed in French purchased by many of our supporters for the pastors, enabling their further study.  New Testament Survey is an important class and I was assisted by my pastor friend, Steve Wilhite, in teaching the first part of a two part class.  We will return in November to complete the second half.

Our goal is to provide a curriculum that will help equip these pastors and church leaders to clearly teach the Word of God to their people.  We are seeing it happen right before our eyes as pastors testify to us about how they are able to use these materials to better teach their congregations.  It feels like we really are in this small part of the world fulfilling our goal to encourage kingdom leaders.

Dale Barrett, Director
TLC Haiti

PRAY FOR US

Steve Wilhite and I will be traveling to Haiti May 11-19.  We need your prayers.  here are some specific ways you can remember us.

*Pray for safe travel.

*Pray for good weather--it will be hot, but, we hope, not too hot!

*Pray for our Haitian pastors to be able to participate by attending our class on NT Survey l, one of our core classes.

*Pray for us as we teach this core class (part one) through interpreters, and utilize wonderful new textbooks printed in French.

*Pray for Pastor Rochelin, one of our pastors, recently seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.  One of his daughters was has died form her injuries.

*Pray for Pastor Gilbert and Legette--their load of work is large...and growing.

*Pray for our financial needs and God's faithful provision through our supporters.

We will give you a detailed report on our return, confident that God is going to do great things for His glory.

(For more information, check our website, www.leadconnect.org/Haiti.)