Getting ready to return

We have gone ahead and made our reservations for returning to Guyana. We leave Buffalo about 6 PM on September 14th. We will spend about five hours at JFK and then fly on to Georgetown, arriving about 7 AM on the 15th. Rather than try to cut things too close, we will plan on flying into the Ridge on the 18th. We would appreciate all the prayers for our admittance back into the country.

I had recently gotten an email from Gary Fischer. I thought I share some of that as well.

“We cannot believe the convention is over already! I know we say this every year, but, this was the best ever. The convention experience has been ever so encouraging to us. There was a peak attendance of 5,262 with 64 baptized including 3 or 4 from the deaf group. One announcement that is exciting for us in the interior is that the translation into Carib of the God's Friend brochure and the tract You Can Know the Truth has been completed. We will have some more questions to ask about that when we visit the branch tomorrow (such as, can we get some today?). We enjoyed meeting other need greaters as well as many of the locals here. The response we got when they learned where we were serving was quite amusing. "Wow!"; "Really!"; "Oh my goodness!" It was very encouraging to hear the locals at the convention express many heartfelt thanks for coming to Guyana to help. We really needed that!”

Just to put things in perspective, there are only two District Conventions in Guyana. The other one had a peak attendance of about 2000. So a total attendance of over 7000 isn’t bad in a country with about 2000 witnesses.

Gary also sent along a few pictures. One is of Marion in the ministry, another is of a service group including the newest publisher, Sheneza, she’s fourth from left. Then there a couple from the school with newest students Danika and Sheneza (note microphone being used!)