Church Conference!

So, the past week has found me back in the swing of things with a little bit of extra rest here and there.  It is great to be able to be back in the game!  On Wednesday of last week, we headed to Les Cayes with 6 other guys--so often I'm the only female around with these kinds of trips--for the annual MEBSH conference.  The Missionary Evangelical Baptist of South Haiti denomination is the largest denomination we work with here in Haiti.  Our first contact, Pastor Samson, is the Vice President for the MEBSH and, this year, invited Pastor Rob from Broadmoor Baptist Church in Mississippi to come speak at the conference.  Four times.  At the nightly service.  It's a pretty big deal.

Broadmoor has been partnering with Pastor Samson's church for a couple of years now and have developed, what we believe is going to be, a long-lasting partnership.  It's been great to see how they want to continue to grow this relationship.  Pastor Samson has visited their church and Pastor Rob has preached here.  It has been great watching this relationship grow and change.  We look forward to seeing how much God will do through this partnership.

At the conference this week, there were probably around 6,500 people at each nightly service.  There were dynamic worship moments, wonderful choirs giving the glory to God, and--one of my favorite things--a very talented trumpet trio.  The trio did an amazing job taking fantastic old hymns like "Great is Thy Faithfulness" and making a beautiful, worshipful moment where it felt like we were being ushered into the very presence of the King and we wanted to jump out of our skin to join them in worship before Him!

When Pastor Rob preached, he had to use a translator of course, but he preached from his heart.  I always love it when you can tell that a pastor loves the Lord and His Word and preaches truth with passion.  The theme of the convention was from John 4:35:  "...lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest."  What a great reminder for Christians to not only know Jesus and rely on Him, but look to the fields.  Why?  Pastor Rob ended with a great reason:  Because He Lives.  We need to share that good news.  We need to look to the fields.

I have been encouraged this weekend!  Praise God for all He does!