Presenting Christ in a rural Haitian community...one lesson at a time.
QUICK UPDATE FROM ANDY...
Hello friends of ASAPH Teaching Ministry!
Summer has left the building. You are probably enjoying cool nights and cool mornings...sweatshirts and jackets. Here in Haiti we are still enduring hot days. The nights are becoming tolerable. Rain has made things cooler than normal. We have had rain at least once each week for most of September and into October. That is unusual. We have the mosquitoes that always accompany rainy weather as well. We have had thunderstorms that are quite dramatic inside a steel building that has open spaces as windows. Lightning strikes have damaged some electrical equipment not far from us.
We are gearing up for an annual celebration this Sunday. Each year on Reformation Sunday, we celebrate the Bible...God's Word! We are so thankful that we can read it in Creole, French, English, and almost any other language. ASAPH's bands will play, and choirs will sing. There will be teaching and games as well. We hope to have an enjoyable and educational time together.
ASAPH's groups have been struggling lately. Attendance is low for almost every activity...even soccer! I wonder sometimes if smart phones are not at the root of it all. Kids can "play soccer games" without having to run or sweat. They can enjoy music with having to go through the discipline of learning to master an instrument.
Pray for us as we continue to present Jesus Christ here in a rural Haitian community...one lesson at a time.
Visit the "HEADLINES" portion of this website for more stories.
Support our ministry by on-line donation and/or by a check in the mail (click on CONNECT above).
Follow God,
ANDY STUMP
Summer has left the building. You are probably enjoying cool nights and cool mornings...sweatshirts and jackets. Here in Haiti we are still enduring hot days. The nights are becoming tolerable. Rain has made things cooler than normal. We have had rain at least once each week for most of September and into October. That is unusual. We have the mosquitoes that always accompany rainy weather as well. We have had thunderstorms that are quite dramatic inside a steel building that has open spaces as windows. Lightning strikes have damaged some electrical equipment not far from us.
We are gearing up for an annual celebration this Sunday. Each year on Reformation Sunday, we celebrate the Bible...God's Word! We are so thankful that we can read it in Creole, French, English, and almost any other language. ASAPH's bands will play, and choirs will sing. There will be teaching and games as well. We hope to have an enjoyable and educational time together.
ASAPH's groups have been struggling lately. Attendance is low for almost every activity...even soccer! I wonder sometimes if smart phones are not at the root of it all. Kids can "play soccer games" without having to run or sweat. They can enjoy music with having to go through the discipline of learning to master an instrument.
Pray for us as we continue to present Jesus Christ here in a rural Haitian community...one lesson at a time.
Visit the "HEADLINES" portion of this website for more stories.
Support our ministry by on-line donation and/or by a check in the mail (click on CONNECT above).
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