Our Hearts Are Bursting With Joy.....!

Our hearts are bursting with joy as we’ve just had an amazing church conference over the weekend in the region of Lapoc! This was a regional conference, so most of the 1008 people attending were believers from the Lapoc region, although there was a delegation of about 50 of the new believers from the Man-ai region which thrilled all of us so much! God has greatly blessed the work there which has only been going for just over one year!! We had great messages from the Word from 5 different speakers and beautiful times of praise and worship.

It was one of the best conferences we’ve had so far in Lapoc, organized totally by the leadership of the Lapoc church with no input from us. They built a unique, outdoor baptismal which we saw for the first time when we arrived for the conference, so this time we held the baptisms at the church and didn’t need to make the big trek to the river. The mothers with small children and the older people were especially thankful for this!

There were 77 baptisms, and it was a thrill to see many young people who have grown up in the churches in the Lapoc Region, eagerly seeking baptism and desiring to follow the Lord! There is a real spiritual fire burning amongst the youth in all the regions!

We got to catch up with dear friends and family in the Lord, have precious times of fellowship over meals, laughter and some tears but mostly just heaps of JOY!