Haiti Trip

G. Thomas Sharp • January 27, 2016

     Just returned from our annual trip to Gonaives, Haiti, located about 90 miles north of Port-au-Prince and am happy to report that Living Water Christian Mission, the onsite ministry there with which we work, is growing and is blessed of the Lord. Our team—led by Pastor Cody McDaniel, accompanied by team members: Mrs. Debbie McDaniel (teacher), Mrs. Debra Fairless (APN), Diane and I (CTF), Miss Kylee Witt (RN), Mr. Ashley Butler (minister) and daughter (student), painted, plumbed, preached and taught for 10 days sunup to sundown. The resident director of missions: Pastor and Mrs. Salonique Adolph, native Haitians, were very pleased and happy for our visit and work.

My task for the past three years has been to train the ministerial students in Creation apologetics and Biblical Worldview (consistently about 20 young men between the ages of 25 and 40 years). To date we have covered verse-by-verse Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 7:24 (about 60 class hours of instruction).

The three greatest needs of the Haitian people are: Jesus, education, and economic management skills-in that order. The task is spiritually overwhelming because the Haitian people opened their country a long time ago to satanic control and manipulation through voodoo spirituality, animism, witchcraft and all sorts of demonism. This, I believe produced, or help to produce, the deplorable level of poverty, which is accompanied by the obvious social and domestic despair seen everywhere.

Nevertheless, the Blood of Jesus, His Gospel, the authority of His Word, anointed by His Holy Spirit, all in the presence of Holy angels, is attaining many victories there—Praise the Lord! Pastor Adolph has only been involved in this work 12 years (since he was 30), but during this time has built four churches (and is planning a fifth), a medical clinic, with an on-site MD, a day school, two functioning farms for raising all sorts of vegetables for the children in the school.

Just to give you an idea of the effectiveness of this ministry, the past Sunday, January 10, the home church had an attendance of 906. There are 600 or more children in the day school, and the average combined Sunday attendance for all four churches is about 1,600. The medical clinic is open daily. This Sunday, after a brief sermon by one of the visiting Americans, four women came forward for special prayer: one wanted to be delivered from the terrible darkness in her life and home, one needed her marriage strengthened and her children saved, one wanted to be set free from the bondage she felt in her mind, and the other wanted to know more about Jesus. I am sharing this anecdote with you for only one reason that you can realize the desperate need in this country, and understand that many of the people will respond to the Gospel if given the chance.

The spiritual hunger among the remnant is mindboggling. For example, the students of the Bible college want me to come every four months to teach them instead of once a year, and I am considering this because their hunger for Biblical truth is so great (and I have more time now than I used to have), and the hour is growing late— but I must be sure this decision is the Lord’s will. Moreover, I would  need some of you to take this up as a spiritual and financial goal, and tell me of your intention in the next couple weeks or so because each trip would take an additional $2,500 of support, and I would need exceeding prayer cover for each trip and for the time in the country.

God bless you all for you continued prayer and support. I remain yours in the thrill of serving Jesus…so until next month, I pray God’s best for you and your family.  Isaiah 40:28-31

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Flooded Marine Reptile

By Matt Miles • October 2, 2025
The Flood during Noah’s day was a devastating judgement against the sin and wickedness of the time. Most people focus on what the Lord did as He saved the eight people and animals on the Ark. Yet while they were being saved, the Flood destroyed the earth and left behind some remarkable things. Geology around the globe shows water burial of plants and animals. Many of the animal remains show signs of drowning and then burial. One particular reptile that shows this is the Ichthyosaurus. From what we can understand, water was her home for everything in life, even giving birth to live young. This well designed creature may even help us trust the Word of God when it comes to the history of the Flood. In our Mobile Museum of Earth History we exhibit a research replica of an ichthyosaur called Stenopterygius quadriscissus . She is from Holzmaden, Germany and is one example of hundreds that have been found in the area. The reason we can so confidently state this fossil is a “her,” when we rarely know for sure about fossil animals, is because she is pregnant. She has three babies present with her remains: one under her tail, one in or near the birth canal, and one still inside. Our fossil is in situ, which means the fossil remains in the rock matrix it was buried in. So, the presence of momma and babies are how they were buried and not articulated in some manner after excavation. This is important to show the rapid, watery burial that must have taken place to lock this scene in the fossil record. The Flood trapped organisms all over the world in different life positions. Sometimes the fossils left behind have shown eating, hunting, sleeping, swimming, nesting, or drowning. When it comes to ichthyosaurs around the planet, there is a significant number of females that seem to be pregnant. They have been found in the fossil record on at least four continents. A fair assumption would be that Ichthyosaurs had a certain time of year they mated and gave birth to young, much like sea turtles today that nest from late spring to late fall depending on the region around the world. So it should come as no surprise that we find pregnant ichthyosaurs all around the world as the Flood lasted an entire year. It would have buried the females that were pregnant near their location of habitat.  Evolutionists maintain that ichthyosaurs lived tens to hundreds of million years ago and each of the mothers found in the fossil record just died while giving birth. This is difficult to support in a millions magnitude time scale. That would mean every time a disaster happened, millions of years apart, the right conditions existed to quickly bury ichthyosaurs that just so happened to be pregnant. It just might take some “faith” to trust that “miracle” would happen over and over again through eons of time. Or you can have faith that the Word of God’s history is correct with a judgement of man’s sin bringing global devastation through the Flood during Noah’s 600th year of life. The Word of God is trustworthy, with even the fossil record showing us glimpses of historical evidence in support of our faith. I’m so thankful we don’t need blind faith to trust our salvation! Blessings.
Furnace

Our God Whom We Serve Is Able

By Ryan Cox • October 2, 2025
14 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up? 15 …if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?” 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” Daniel 3:14-18 In the 6th century BC, three young men stood up for their faith in the one true God, for which someone attempted to kill them. Today, in the 21st century AD, one young man was gunned down for his faith in the one true God. And sadly, Charlie Kirk is not the only one. According to The Esther Project, martyrdom for the cause of Christ is commonplace around the world ( theestherproject.com/statistics ). On average: 322 Christians are killed monthly. 214 churches or Christian properties are destroyed monthly. 772 forms of violence (beatings, kidnappings, etc.) against Christians are committed monthly. 100,000 to 160,000 Christians are killed annually in the 21st century. 1.093 million Christians were martyred between 2000 and 2010. And more than 70 million Christians are believed to have been martyred since the 1st century, with more than half killed in the 20th century alone under communist and fascist governments. And how should Christians respond? Peter wrote, “ if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name ” (I Peter 4:16). Jesus took this a step further; He told us, “ …love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you ” (Matthew 5:44). Now, as Shawn Grant, minister at Kissimmee Christian Church, FL, preached on the Sunday following the assassination, th at may not be what you want to hear right now, but that is what Jesus has told us we must do. Why? So the world will see the difference Jesus makes! The night of and the days after the assassination, businesses did not have to board up their stores. Police and soldiers did not have to be deployed. There were no riots, no property damages, no police spat upon – only tears, prayers, and a witness to the world that Jesus is the answer. So noticeable is this to the world, there were more international press requests for the Charlie Kirk memorial service than are requested for Super Bowls. Within seven days of his death, Kirk’s ministry Turning Point USA had received over 54,000 campus chapter requests. And most importantly, scores of videos of young people considering or even deciding to give their lives to Jesus have been posted to social media platforms. 
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