Dear Prayer-Partners,
“Children’s children are the crown of old men.” Proverbs 17:6. I certainly don’t feel old but Ruby and I are rejoicing that we have one of those wonderful “crowns”!  Jarren Daniel Stockeland was born to Luke and Anne on Monday, October 2.  We arrived in Arkansas a week later and have been enjoying that beautiful grandson every day.  Thank you, Lord, for this tremendous blessing in our lives!

 SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

We started the school lunch program by giving each of the students a piece of bread with peanut butter each day.  Needless to say, they were thrilled!  The teachers have told me that it has changed their school.  They said the students are no longer falling asleep, they are happier and they actually move around and have some fun during recreation time.  Just before we left to come home we were able to buy a good amount of beans & rice.  The plan is to serve one hot meal per week and bread & peanut butter the other days until more support comes in.  This project is a great blessing to all the families involved in the school.

OVEN PROJECT

We built a bread oven across the street from the school.  It is having a significant impact after only two weeks of operation.  They sell bread to people in the community and the profit enables them to sell it at cost to the school.  We are rapidly getting to the point where we can start to help our second school just a half hour walk down the road.  This will free up more money to buy beans, rice and other food to make a warm meal for the students.

TEACHERS’ SALARIES

We made a special appeal for teachers’ salaries in our last letter.  We thank the Lord for the response.  A generous donation was given for the building of a school and paying the teachers salaries for a period of time.  We can’t wait to get going on that project.  We still need a few more sponsors for teachers at $30 per month.

 HURRICANE

We weathered a hurricane while in Haiti.  Ruby stayed at our home church while I went to preach at a mountain church. I had three other men with me.  It started raining as we were coming down the mountain and by the time I picked Ruby up, it was raining hard.  We got back to town as fast as we could and the hurricane hit five minutes after we arrived at our house.  Other than getting soaking wet we survived ok.  Special note:  We received several e-mail messages in the days following asking us how we weathered the hurricane. Evidently, everyone knew it was coming except us!!!  Now that we have cell phones, you can help us greatly by calling and letting us know of bad weather heading our way. THANKS!

 BUILDING PROJECTS

We started another church building and it is being worked on as I type this letter.  There are more projects going on than I have space to list right here.  Suffice it to say the building fund is always in need of help!

 MISSION COMPLEX

We have some land on which to build!  The Lord provided someone up the mountain with land but they were interested in our land down below.  We ended up trading land and now we are ready to get started.  As the Lord provides, we would like to build a house for us, a garage, a work shop and a guest house for our work teams.  Right now that fund stands at $ 0, so please pray with us and we will see what the Lord will do!  As the Lord directs you can designate those gifts to “mission complex.”

 SEMINARS

I did two more Bible seminars, one was in our home church and many, from several churches we didn’t know before, attended. The preachers tell me it was the best seminar yet and it thrills my heart to see lives and churches changing in response to the Word of God.

 We plan to return to Haiti right after Thanksgiving.  We thank each of your for your interest and help in the Lord’s work in Haiti.

 In Christ our Savior,

 Pastor Dave & Ruby

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    Beth’El Baptist Church, Box 437, Green Forest, AR  72638

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