Dear Loved Ones,

Greeting. This Monday November 19 was a memorable day in the life of our senior theological students. During their four years of studies at this university, they have learned many things and many theories. Today they started to test some of what they learned. It was a baptism practice. They have been baptized and have seen people being baptized but they have not had the feeling of performing a baptism themselves. They have no idea of how a person being baptized weighs in water or how that person resists getting in cold water.

It was fun but it was a also an important learning experience. Now they have a clear idea of what they observe other pastors do. Two by two, they were baptizing each other under my supervision. For many of them, this is a life time opportunity to learn the real baptism.

Please let us be praying that this exercise will become a reality in the life of these young seniors as they prepare themselves for the ministry of tomorrow Haiti.

Yours in Haiti

Nzunga & Kihomi

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

It looks easy doesn’t it?  I have had many pastors tell me that it is not always.  Some must baptize people twice their size.  I remember a baptism in my church where the candidate had a morbid fear of water.  I was recruited along with another man to be on the front row and ready to jump up and help if the pastor couldn’t get her up or she started fighting him.  Most importantly Nzunga is reading the next generation of leaders who will be effectively preaching the Gospel and hopefully will be doing many baptisms.    You are part of their ministry as you support Nzunga in preparing them.  Thank you.

 

(We would never allow it to be cold water, would we!)

 

In His Name,

 

Dennis Shewell

Mission Partnership Team Communications Advocate and Convener

Nzunga and Kihomi Ministry

E-mail: deshewell@gmail.com

Phone: 812-569-1352

 

Other team Members:

Les Roberson

Diana Peysha

Shawna Gorman

Terry Bivens-Fry

Charles Newman