Transforming lives...

Our days here at the Point of Hope are coming to an end for this trip.  It has been a wonderful experience.  The youth and adults from First Baptist Lafayette have worked so hard ministering to the children and working on the third floor.  Although we were not able to finish the bathroom, we made good headway on the next class room and bought all the supplies for the bathroom.  The next team will be able to finish the project and the children will have more rooms available for their use.

As I am preparing to begin the journey home I can't help but look back at the past four or five years.  God has done wonderful things here through this ministry.  I realize that transformation takes time and hard work.  This community, although still very poor and in much need, is showing signs of transformation.  Children's lives are being transformed through spiritual food and physical food, and through education of just plain reading, writing, and arithmetic.  We hear reports that many of the children that have graduated from the Point of Hope program to public schools are doing exceptionally well.  Their are some that still need more help and therefore our after school program still needs more funding so we can continue to help these children.

Over the past five years many children have been given a chance to have a better life through proper education and through the power of God's spirit in their lives.  Please continue to pray for the Point of Hope Ministry.  Pray for the teachers, pray for the volunteers, pray for the administrative staff.  Pray that the Lord will continue to use each of them to point these children to Him.

I am so blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of this ministry.  I can't wait to see what the next five or ten years brings as we continue to point these children to the only true Hope...our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  We provide for their physical needs, point them to God and then He transforms their life.  What a deal!