August 2009 Archives
No pictures! But, glad to be home and we all arrived safely. It was a great and rewarding week in Connecticut.
We are doing a mission report on Sunday evening August 9 at 6:00 pm. We will report on Connecticut, China, and the Dominican Republic. We sent Carole Crawford to China as she was working with some school teachers to teach English to Chinese students and they were allowed to use the Bible to teach English. Joyce Roach went with the STCH team to The Dominican Republic. Dr. Robert Edwards, Annette Gardner, Bob and Carole Crawford, and Gains and Mary Gardner went to Naugatuck, CT. We participated in VBS in the mornings and went to various cities in the afternoon to do prayer walks. We met up with the George West team in Bristol, CT, where they were renovating an American Legion hall. They were repairing restrooms and building Sunday school space. It was wonderful to see us all in Connecticut doing our little part for Western Connecticut Baptist Association. We discovered in Shelton a very small group of Christians that were looking to have a Bible study. Pastor Tim Leggett, Church Planter Strategist of Western CT. Baptist Assoc., and pastor of Naugatuck Valley Community Church, is praying that a group of ladies from his church will take the lead and go to Shelton and start a Women's Bible Study. We do not know the results of our time in VBS nor will we know our effectiveness in the prayer walks, but someone has to sow the seeds and we feel like we did just that.
We want to thank you and the BGCT for your support, in prayers and financial aid. This partnership with Blanco Association and the Western Connecticut Baptist Association seems to be a "God Thing". We were encouraged to meet fellow Christians in the Northeast. But we were somewhat disappointed in the fact that this is the seat of American history and then to see how the people of New England have lost sight of Christian beliefs and lifestyles. There is a great loss of evangelism in the Northeast. Point in fact, is the Sunday we arrived was the Sunday in which one old church had its last service. The church was founded in 1764, just years from the American Revolution of 1776. How sad! But, if the Christians in America do not re-establish that love affair with Jesus, we will see our United States go the way of New England. We need to pray and pray earnestly. Sorry for the sermon, but that was the result of our trip to Connecticut.
