NO LiMiT Phase Two, Trinidad Missions Trip a go!

Last night at our Members (Business) Meeting, our church voted to prayerfully support our missions trips both to Covington, LA, and to Trinidad & Tobago. Our NO LiMiT Team (New Orleans, Louisiana, Missions Team) will go to Hope Church to help with construction and clean-up in the New Orleans area.  We are truly excited about this because we are hoping to go down over the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Again, in Trinidad we will be doing construction work on the Mt. Beulah Evangelical Baptist Church in Point Fortin.  A team of 4-6 of us will go, and we will hopefully have around $4000 for supplies so we can finish up the work there (God has already provided almost a $1000).

If there is any way you can help with these missions endeavors, feel free to comment, e-mail, or mail us at:

Boone’s Creek Baptist Church
ATTN:  NO LiMiT II/ Trinidad ‘07
185 N. Cleveland Rd.
Lexington, KY 40509

Belated congratulations to the Soca Warriors!

Possible missions trip to Trinidad in January ‘07 — please pray

God has placed a huge burden on my heart for the country of Trinidad and Tobago.  I believe that God has opened a great door for our church to do some construction work at the Mount Beulah Evangelical Baptist Church in Point Fortin from 23-31 January 2007.  The team will be called COMET 2007 (Christians On-Mission Engaging Trinidad).  Plus, I have been asked to do a Family Life Conference down there as well.

I’m asking you to pray for the following:

• Six people have already committed to go.  Please pray that God would raise the finances necessary:  Approx. $750 for plane tickets, plus another $100 for extra money for emergencies. (I must say, God has already provided the finances for three of the six to go — He’s already at work!)
• We are planning on tiling the church sanctuary, which we estimate will cost around $3000-3500.  Please pray that somehow, someway God will provide those finances.
• That hearts and lives would be changed by God’s sovereign grace — both in Trinidad and even some of our own guys.  Who knows what God might do through them?

I covet your prayers, but if you are able to help with our finances, please send whatever help you can to:

Boone’s Creek Baptist Church
ATTN:  COMET 2007
185 N. Cleveland Rd.
Lexington, KY 40509

Thank you and may God bless you!

Go Soca Warriors!

Trinidad & Tobago held powerhouse Sweden to no goals. Their goalie made six or seven unbelievable stops as the Soca Warriors held Sweden to a 0-0 draw, gaining one point and are tied for second in the Group B of the World Cup. I watched the majority of the match. Great defense!

Why Trinidad When There’s So Much To Be Done Here?

As some of you may know, I have a very strong bond to the country of Trinidad & Tobago and long to see that country be a light in the Caribbean for Christ.  I cannot explain the burden or the passion for the Trinidadian peoples except to say that God has placed it there and has since I first went to Trinidad back in 1996.

I have been asked to come back and to help lead and organize a Family Life Conference in San Fernando (the second largest city in Trinidad) sometime in late January.  I have been to Trinidad three times in the last three years and God has really blessed mine and our times together greatly.  In some ways, I feel as if I am a missionary to that wonderful country and that there is so much that still needs to be done.  I do not believe that God is through with me yet down there.

I am asking you to make this a matter of prayer.  When I did the Six Marks of a Godly Leader Conference this past January, the best received Mark was the Leader's Primary Concern — that is, his family.  The situation of the family is in dire straits (much like it is here in the States).  And the people there are so hungry and open to hearing what God has to say about this in His Word.

Will you make this a matter of prayer?  We could conceivably have over 300 people at this event.  I have asked two of my friends to consider joining me and helping with ministering to the youth down there as well.  We minister daily here and pray for God to bear fruit — but the cry comes as it did in Acts 16:9:  "Come over to Trinidad & Tobago and help us." 

Thank you in advance for your prayers.

ESV Outreach Ministry to Trinidad

In some senses, I feel as if I am a missionary to Trinidad, having been there doing missions work three times in the last three years and currently having in the works to do a Marriage and Family Conference in the South early next year, Lord willing.

I also feel as if I am an ESV apologist. I went exclusively to the ESV in teaching and preaching back in 2004. And thanks to the folks at Crossway, they have donated over 60 pew Bibles that I have taken to Trinidad for a church in Point Fortin to distribute and use in their times of worship.

So imagine my surprise when I received the latest edition of “The Standard Bearer E-News” from The Standard Bible Society of the English Standard Version outlining an ESV Outreach Ministry Initiative. In this edition, they relate how they recently partnered with PastorServe to distribute ESV Bibles in … you guessed it … Trinidad. Words cannot express how this thrills my heart that the ESV is making in-roads to these incredible people.

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