Above is a picture from Bruce of the finished floor in Foison.
Below is a message that we received from Bruce Robinson on May 1, about two weeks after our team left.
I finally got up to Foison and saw the finished slab. Pretty impressive! And the people up there are really pumped about it.
Today Deb and I were able to go up to the special once a year harvest and thanksgiving service at Foison. They took the back wall out of the church and added 30 more feet of benches and the place was SRO. It was pretty neat up to the end. Then they put two chairs in front of the podium and asked if anyone who was there wanted to accept Christ as their savior. Remember they had been having meetings every night for a week and this was the big culmination. One lady and one child came forward and sat in the chairs. So they got another chair. Another child. And another chair. And another. And another and another…some teenagers, and one or two adults, but mostly children. At fourteen, I asked the Lord for one more. We kept singing more songs and people kept coming. I lost count in the 20s and one of the choirs had to vacate a bench when they ran out of chairs.
I have heard of things happening like this in Haiti but have never been present. Something special happened. I don’t know how many of the children who went forward were ones that were working with us on the floor, or you were playing soccer with, or were in the Shannon Special Team Water Hauling Brigade. Concrete floors and school buildings are really important parts of mission work… when they are part of the ministry of a church where people are coming to Christ. And the precious children. They kept coming even while we were doing the last hymn. I think probably 30 people came forward to accept Christ. I have never seen that many at one time.
We received a further update on this from Bruce a couple days later, and he said that the final tally of people who came forward to accept Christ was up to 40!
God is moving and working in Foison!
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