The last time we communicated with everyone, I shared about the growth of the Worship and the Singles ministries – at a time when the Church was going through challenging times and had no full time leaders.
We had requested your prayers for spiritual growth in the church and for a full time minister. Well, God is answering those prayers and the church continues to receive spiritual healing and growth as members become more focused on glorifying God and taking up our commission of seeking and saving the lost.
In the New Testament we see how several of the churches accumulated their monetary gifts and gave to the apostles and other churches to help in the spread of the gospel. In our modern day movement the example is the same. We in Barbados in particular, and the Caribbean as a whole, have benefited from the sacrifice of the brothers and sisters of the New York and the ColumbiaChurches in particular.
The church in Columbia has also solicited the help of some other churches (notably Athens Ga., and Savannah Ga.) and as a result the Bridgetown Church now has a full time minister in Damian Jean-Baptiste and a part time women’s ministry leader in his wife Karlene 
Jean-Baptiste. They also help to strengthen some of the other Caribbean Churches. Heartfelt thanks to the members of the Columbia, New York and other churches in the USA who sacrificially gave their financial gifts to continue the work of the gospel in this region of the world. Special thanks also to the leaders and administrators in these churches JP Tynes, Sam Powell, Paul Ramsey, Sam Laing, Don Murray, Madaline Haigentz and the Board of trustees for their vision for the Caribbean and African regions and for their leadership. 
“Ain’t God faithfully awesome!”
God continues to show his power as we in the BridgetownChurch are also experiencing numerical growth. At the end of 2007 we had 97 members. In 2008 we added four persons to that number, Damian, Karlene and their teenage daughter Melanie and a new convert. A single brother, who is now part of the bass contingent in the Worship ministry, is steady dating, and participates in delivering messages for Sunday worship -was baptized into the faith. “Ain’t God graciously awesome!”
In the past eight weeks God has led eight other persons to his ‘flock’. It started with the baptism of another talented single brother. God then added three of our teens, two brothers and one sister and also allowed a single sister to be baptized into the faith. Furthermore, God moved the heart of one sister who had stopp
ed fellowshipping with us and caused her restoration to the fold. In addition, one of our married sisters who has a health challenge and who recently moved to a new neighborhood, was used by God to bring to the family of believers a married sister - from her new neighborhood. Finally, our women’s ministry leader Karlene Jean-Baptiste saw her mother, who will be eighty years old in July, become her ‘sister- in - Christ’ last week. “Ain’t God powerfully awesome!”
The same God has also been moving in the Caribbean region as the other churches from Jamaica in the north to Guyana in the south are also experiencing God’s healing power as he uses the disciples to bring others to the fold. We are also having our first Caribbean Conference, in a long while, which will be hosted by the Kingston Church in Jamaica in October 2009. Again we thank JP Tynes, Sam Laing and Sam Powell as they continue to support our efforts even in this venture. They are scheduled to address us in some of the sessions. Please continue to pray for our region particularly for us to continue to grow in unity and our reliance on the father as we continue to build our faith and share the good news with others. To God be the glory.
posted by Jerry Maday