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MIA BlogSpot | August, 2010
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August 17, 2010
Posted by Steve McGeeGreetings from Haiti. I’m very happy to announce that MIA’s new Director of Community Transformation, Gustavo Formenti, arrived in Miami yesterday along with his wife, Stephanie. I am confident that Gustavo will hit the ground running and will help revive excitement and energy for MIA’s very successful Project Ebenezer program.
Over the past 40 years Project Ebenezer has positively impacted dozens of communities and thousands of lives throughout the Caribbean. We have been able to counter poverty with biblical economic enterprise projects, improve health by providing clean and safe drinking water as well as establishing health clinics, and attack ignorance by building schools, among other things. I am excited to see what God will do through MIA with the addition of Gustavo to our team.
Ministry Updates
I will be in Haiti this week along with MIA Haiti Director Bresile St. Germain. We will minister to over 200 pastors at a conference in Port au Prince. For the pastors who work so hard on the frontlines of recovery from the earthquake, these conferences are a great encouragement and help to equip them to continue with the difficult work. I’ll share more about this when I return next week.Director of Theological Education Barry Smith will be in Jamaica from September 17 – 22. He has been invited by the Peace and Justice Center in the Flankers community of Montego Bay and the fastest growing congregation in the Missionary Church denomination, which is in nearby Hopewell, to lead workshops on biblical counseling. Barry will discuss how the Gospel of Jesus provides hope for healing from the most difficult spiritual and emotional problems that people face.
MIA Family News
Please join us in congratulating Barry. He will be marrying Gail Knight, the Children’s and Youth Director at Pinelands Presbyterian Church. I’ll perform the wedding on September 4th at Pinelands. I pray that God blesses them for many years to come.August 5, 2010
Posted by Steve McGeeLast week, we had a team from Pinelands Presbyterian Church go to Jamaica and work with the Peace and Justice Center in the community of Flankers in Montego Bay. MIA missionary Billy McKillop has been developing relationships in Flankers, with the staff at the Center and with churches in the community. Flankers is one of the most poverty stricken and crime ridden neighborhoods in Montego Bay.
The Pinelands team did a Vacation Bible School ministry at the Peace and Justice Center and at Grace Temple Church, ministering to almost 200 children. Their work helped Billy in his efforts to make a life-changing impact in this community. It was so successful that MIA has been invited by both the Peace and Justice Center and Pastor Brackett of Grace Temple to continue working with them in trying, by the grace of God, to transform this community.
Our Director of Theological Education, Barry Smith, was also in Jamaica last week. He taught a class at our study center in Manchester. He also spent some time in Flankers, where he led a workshop for the staff at the Peace and Justice Center. Barry has been invited to return to provide more training for their staff.
We are very excited about the impact that the good news of Jesus is having in this community and our opportunity to assist with this work. Marilyn MacIntosh-Nash, Director of the Center, said that the whole atmosphere of the community has changed. Crime is down and the people are happy in a way that they have never been before. She said this is the best summer any of them can remember. That’s the difference the grace of God makes. Thank you for your support of MIA and the work of grace that we are doing in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
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