February 8, 2007
In mid-February, Tom Langley traveled to Port au Prince, Haiti to participate in the 2007 Annual Lectureship. Jean Robert Hilaire, pulpit minister of the 2,000-member Delmas 43 Church of Christ, met him at the airport and escorted him to his home.
Tom reports: “Following the 8:30 a.m. service, 20 people responded to the message, and 13 were baptized. Approximately 75 WEI Internet students were there on Sunday for the morning worship service and attended the WEI meeting afterward. Many others came to visit me and attended portions of the Seminar over the next two and a half days.
“After the second day of the Seminar, one denominational preacher traveled back to his province and spoke to his church about the things he had learned. He called Jean Robert that evening and asked him to come to his home town and teach more on the things he had heard. He said that all of his church members wanted to be baptized according to the New Testament, and he also asked Jean to bring a Church of Christ sign so he could put it on the entrance of their place of worship. Amazing!”
According to Jean Robert, “468 people at-tended the Seminar including 203 denominational preachers. A total of 238 people were baptized, and 64 of that number were denominational preachers.” Tom concludes, “This trip truly was an experience of a lifetime.”
