Dear Praying Christian Friends,

Does this happen in your church? A one-year-old in diapers is brought to the kids’ class by his four-year-old sister. When you go looking for the parents, you discover that neither parent came, but sent the kids on foot through the neighborhood to church. No grown ups, no big kids to be responsible, just a one-year-old watched by a four-year-old. Unfortunately that is a pretty typical event here. But we praise the Lord because we would rather have them in the church than loose in the streets! We have new visitors and decisions every week in the church in Santo Domingo, Sunday nights are packed and there are not enough seats. That is a great problem for a church to have.

We are still trying to raise the funds to buy a church van. We have made a little progress, but we have a long way to go. If you or your church can help with a special offering, mark it "church van" and send it to the mission office and it will go into a special set-aside fund until enough accumulates to allow us to purchase a good church van. Please pray about helping us with this special project.

In Haiti we still are working on earthquake reconstruction. We have completed five projects and we started three new church-construction projects in June. We currently also have three pastors’ homes under construction. There are three more of the church projects that we have been working on for several months that are nearing completion, awaiting roofs and floors and some small details to be considered complete. Two other churches are progressing very slowly as we await promised funds from other sources to come through, but they are still making progress.

We are also still supporting two children’s homes in Port-au-Prince with a total of over 70 children. We are providing food first, and then other supplies to these homes as the Lord provides. Both of these children’s homes are in rented homes and are very crowded. Both will eventually need buildings of their own. There are still a lot of church projects and some more pastors’ homes on my project waiting list. As we complete some of the current projects we will move new projects up to active status and start the reconstruction of those buildings. Pray that the Lord will help us in the supervision of these projects, that we can make wise decisions and accomplish the tasks before us.

Pray that decisions and baptisms will continue at our church in Santo Domingo and in all the other churches we work with in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Thank you for your faithfulness to the Lord in prayers and support for this ministry.

Your Missionaries for the Gospel,

Wesley and Melina Lane
E-mail: PreacherWes@hotmail.com

“And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”   —Acts 5:42