Zone visit

On February 3rd we had the Zone visit streamed live to our hall.  A projector was set up and congregations from nearby towns were invited to attend.  Some families traveled over 4 hours to arrive the evening before. There were six locations throughout the country, Cap Haitien, Au Cay, Carrefour, Saint Marc, Mirebalais and Santo (where the bethel is located).  All missionaries in the country were invited to attend at bethel, while the talks were streamed to all other locations.  Haiti has approximately 18,000 publishers and 12,855 were able to attend at the various locations.  Although the sound at our hall was barely decipherable at first, it was resolved in time for the main discourse. Mirebalais had 765 in attendance.

The talk was entitled 'Increase your praise for Jehovah'.  Happily the talk was given in English and translated into creole. He began by mentioning what makes Haiti truly beautiful is the spiritual paradise. The speaker asked if it was an exaggeration for David to want to praise Jehovah for all day long even forever.  He then highlighted four areas that merited our attention, our thoughts (Psalm 139:1,2; Phil. 4:8), conduct (1 Pe. 2:12), speech (Eph. 4:29), and preaching with zeal (Ro. 1:16; Mt. 9:36-38)  Then he concluded by mentioning that Haiti has 1 publisher to 545 people. It was said that we have tools, yet need more workers, and that the kingdom increase shows that we are workers.

Benz, Nadine, Stevenson, Carlos & Lubentz

Vicky

Dusty & Linda