John Milton said: They also serve who only stand and wait... This seems to be our motto with the building project at Sunny Point. Actually, I think that the Lord is working through some very difficult and touchy topics which need to be addressed. We have been spending extra time in prayer. We would appreciate your continued prayers. Perhaps sometime I will be free to share more of what the Lord has been doing as we come to the conclusion of the problem. An important meeting that was scheduled last night had to be rescheduled for tomorrow night.

Soulwinning: We had two unique soulwinning situations over the last week. Andoe Kampoe has turned into a swamp because of heavy rains. Finally the rainy season arrived, and I am looking at standing water in our back yard, which has been there for a week. Thus we have not gone there; Sister Mauke advised staying in the city. So I prayed that we might see folks saved, but thought that this would be unlikely as we were concentrating on following up on some folks from the main church whom we had not seen faithfully in church.

Last Saturday, after visiting a Guyanese lady and her 20 year old Bush-Negro step-granddaughter, we stopped to see a Saramaccan lady (one of the two main Bush Negro tribes). She was at work but her husband invited us in. About 23 years ago, he was a “tough guy” and the somewhat wayward son of one of our believers. As he was running away from the police, they shot him. One bullet pierced his liver, and another destroyed some of the nerves to one of his legs. I saw him dying in the hospital as he awaited emergency surgery. He made a profession at the time, and survived with blood transfusions and surgery but was left with a foot drop. He has had difficulty working, and gets some jobs as a watchman. He called the three daughters of his wife. One had made a profession with one of the young ladies at church. The other two and the man were unsaved, but all three made professions.

Today (Friday), we went to see the family of our bus driver, whose son is getting married, and also drives one of the buses for the church. He is of Hindustani background but Muslim in faith. We have prayed for a long time for their salvation, and I have spoken to him several times about his faith and our Christian beliefs. After dropping off a present, as we came home, a workman who is repairing our neighbor’s home called me. I had never seen him, but he told me that he faithfully has listened to our radio broadcast on the Bush Negro station Koyeba. He was one of those “ripe fruit” who was totally prepared to accept the Lord. He just needed a bit of guidance. So despite the rainy weather, the Lord has blessed.

The paperwork for the main church has finally been accepted by the government, but must go through about 2 months of processing before the main church is independent. Ro Talea, who has done the paperwork from our side, is returning from Trinidad this weekend, and I hope that he will be able to reproduce the paperwork for the other three churches.

We would appreciate your continued prayers as I work on our fall schedule. Most of the school schedules are in place, and I am working on our church schedule now.

Prayer requests:

1. Our continued spiritual growth
2. Health and strength for the work here
3. Souls saved and discipled
4. Independence of the churches
5. Safety driving
6. Sunny Point - building the church (which is people) as well as the church building
7. Andoe Kampoe especially with the problems of flooding