QUICK UPDATE FROM ANDY!
(March 2024)
Hello friends of ASAPH Teaching Ministry!
Ministry continues out here in rural Haiti. The capital city, by contrast, is like a war zone. Prison doors have been opened. Airplanes have been shot. Our slogan the past year has been : "It can't get much worse." So far, we have not reached bottom, apparently.
February was "Music Academy" month here at ASAPH. Young students prepared for a March 1st concert on the Ri-PLAY pickleball court next door to ASAPH. Solfege students sang, recorder students played, and the B-band played as well. We had young drummers, plus young keyboardists and guitarists offering music too. I was most impressed with my young music teachers. Many of the performances on this occasion were by students of my students. Five young music teachers here got some experience in teaching students and leading them to perform in front of people. It was touching to see. All five had students who did very well. A few of my students even accompanied their own students, doing the full job of a music teacher. Some directed as well. In short, there is a good crop of music leaders developing here at ASAPH these days.
March is "AVJF" month. AVJF is Asaph's girls choir. They are preparing a concert for Easter Sunday.
Our town has been shaken by two deaths recently. The first was father to two students who have been leaders here at ASAPH. He died in a terrible motorcycle accident. The second young man died in French Guyana, but he has many, many family members here in our community. Pray for this little rural Haitian community, and for Haiti in general. These are tough days.
Thanks for being with us in ministry!
Follow God,
ANDY STUMP
Ministry continues out here in rural Haiti. The capital city, by contrast, is like a war zone. Prison doors have been opened. Airplanes have been shot. Our slogan the past year has been : "It can't get much worse." So far, we have not reached bottom, apparently.
February was "Music Academy" month here at ASAPH. Young students prepared for a March 1st concert on the Ri-PLAY pickleball court next door to ASAPH. Solfege students sang, recorder students played, and the B-band played as well. We had young drummers, plus young keyboardists and guitarists offering music too. I was most impressed with my young music teachers. Many of the performances on this occasion were by students of my students. Five young music teachers here got some experience in teaching students and leading them to perform in front of people. It was touching to see. All five had students who did very well. A few of my students even accompanied their own students, doing the full job of a music teacher. Some directed as well. In short, there is a good crop of music leaders developing here at ASAPH these days.
March is "AVJF" month. AVJF is Asaph's girls choir. They are preparing a concert for Easter Sunday.
Our town has been shaken by two deaths recently. The first was father to two students who have been leaders here at ASAPH. He died in a terrible motorcycle accident. The second young man died in French Guyana, but he has many, many family members here in our community. Pray for this little rural Haitian community, and for Haiti in general. These are tough days.
Thanks for being with us in ministry!
Follow God,
ANDY STUMP
Haiti is beauty. It was at one time 'the Pearl of the Antilles.' Slivers of the country are a tropical paradise to this day.
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Haiti is distressed. It is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and suffers from political instability, injustice, illiteracy, hunger, unemployment, inflation, low self-worth....the list goes on.
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Haiti is home to 11 million people all created in God's image. Haiti is Judes. Haiti is Elimene. Haiti is Sophonie, Ulrick, and Sony.
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ASAPH Teaching Ministry is sharing the love of Jesus Christ with the people of a town called Pasbwadom...one lesson at a time.
"GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD.
HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER."
Psalm 118:1
HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER."
Psalm 118:1