Mid-Winter Recess in Trinidad and Tobago
It was truly wonderful for us to spend the mid-winter recess with the brethren in T&T. First stop was Mt. Grace, Tobago where bro. Angelo delivered the words of exhortation. Tobago has a Radio program for 15 minutes on 2 Sundays per Month and a TV Prime Time half-hour program 4 times per month.
Coming across to Trinidad, we stayed at the same location where the Caribbean camp was held, the managers were delighted to have us and are also quite happy to provide one of their lecture halls for the Arima Ecclesia to have their weekly meetings.
We then drove south to Point Fortin and had a wonderful lunch with bro. Roland and sis. Sonai Dhaniram and their two girls, Rebecca and Isabella. Next stop was the Erin ecclesia where bro. Sheriff gave us a tour of the aging building that is in need of much repair. His grandson Simeon also showed us their outback campsite and looks forward to having another camp there.
The climax of our visit was the baptisms of Azariah and Josiah, the two sons of bro. Anil and sis. Janelle Gobin. We met at 8:45 am at the Flower Pot beach, bro. Sam delivered the baptismal charge and after the immersion it was a short drive to the Marabella ecclesia. The three Trinidad ecclesias came together for the Sunday and after the breaking-of-bread, there was a thanksgiving service sponsored by the Gobins complete with a variety of foods prepared by sis. Janelle’s mom, there was even ice-cream for kids of all ages, it was quite a privilege to see our brethren and young people again.
There is a preaching campaign being planned God’s will for August 4 to 7 immediately following the annual bible school set for July 31st to August 3. The plan is to use the very campsite, TTUM for the school and the preaching campaign for which they are hoping to get some preaching materials such as the colorful booklets and a poster size Daniel’s Image.