Hailes on Mission

This past month has been full of ups and downs.  We started off the month in style celebrating with local believers at a local church.  We had the SWBTS team in country and we went deep into Tandroy land.  It was a great time of covering future work in prayer and being able to tell others about the love of Jesus Christ.  As we had the up times we also had some difficulties.  The roads in the bush that at times are already bad almost became impassable while we were out. We put our 4x4 vehicles to the test and they all past but they all didn't make it in one piece.  We are Praising God that all the humans did make it in one piece.  Furthermore, while Adam was out in the bush and on the roads the family got a little scare in Toliara.  Baylee had an eye begin to start acting up and though we thought it was nothing after talking with medical specialist we realized it could be something big.  Praise the Lord all the test came back negative and Bayl...

As more training has been completed and we seek to fulfill the Lord’s desires in the South of Madagascar we find ourselves realizing that our job in one sense is not as hard as we tend to make it.   Our job is to proclaim Christ.   Our job is to let everyone we encounter know that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.   As we share this good news with people and see the Lord transform hearts we try to fulfill the rest of the great commission and set up opportunities for them to be baptized and to be taught everything that Jesus has commanded us.   Now I would say that is where our job gets hard.   It is in the making of disciples.   This is where it takes a long time and this is where we get bogged down.   If all we ever did was evangelize we wouldn’t be obeying all that the Lord has commanded us to do.   If all we did was go yet did not do any teaching/training we would not be obeying all that the Lord has commanded.   If all ...