Pastor's Conference

This week we are having a pastor’s conference for the pastors here in Haiti. Last year, we had 150 pastors present, plus several leaders in our church and community, totaling almost 200 people. This year, we’re expecting close to three hundred people. It’s going to be a really busy week for all of us who are part of organizing the conference. The conference begins on Tuesday of this week and there will be sessions everyday, until Friday. Pastors are coming from all over Haiti, and people from our church are billeting them. There are even three pastors from Canada and one pastor from Trinidad that are visiting Haiti specifically for the conference!

During the conference, I will be responsible for manning the registration table, as well as running the PowerPoint during the sessions and I’ll also be recording each session and selling the CD’s afterwards. I’ve always been told that a missionary needs to know how to do everything, and I’m learning that it’s really true! Flexibility and adaptability are two absolutely essential character qualities for the mission field!

I’ve included a picture here of me translating some notes for the conference, with Jordan and Colbert. It took us four and a half hours, and we still weren’t finished the seventeen pages of notes. We were translating them from English into Creol, so the guys were helping me with vocabulary, and since they can’t type, I was typing all the Creol.

I’d appreciate your prayers this week and I know it’s going to be busy, and not everything will go as planned. I know this because things never run the way they would if we were in Canada…. but I’m learning that as long as it runs, that’s all that really matters.
- Please pray for the pastors who will be receiving training and encouragement in the Lord this week.
- Pray for safety for the pastors, as traveling in Haiti is not considered ‘safe’ right now. (Grand Goave is a safe town though, so we’ve just been staying close to home)