God used Elise's talks at Rotary and our church in a big way. The Gardendale and Trussville Rotary are partnering together to provide 75 more Hydraid water filters. These filters are point of use filters and will be distributed in houses throughout the community. Our church, Gardendale First Baptist, took a love offering and collected $12,000. This money was used to purchase an 11KW diesel Kubota generator that will power the water system mentioned in his talk as well as provide power to the church and school.
The school is still in need of people who will come along side them to support the teachers and provide food for the students at the school. If you are interested, check out the http://hereamihaiti.blogspot.com website. You can make a donation via Paypal or mail them a check if you would like.
We are also sending Elise, Junior, and Saintanier to a pastor's conference outside of Saint Marc. Tom Ascol and Tim Brister from Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral Florida are leading a conference the week of January 3rd with over 35 pastors from Haiti. Pray that they will be able to focus on the gospel and it's implications in their lives and communities of faith.
I think that's all for now, but there are still several more projects in the works that we hope will further enable the Holy Bible Church and School to reach out to it's community with gospel of Jesus Christ who came to seek and to save that which is lost.
