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The church continues to go well, our regular attendance is between 50-60 people, we are seeing growth and a desire to take leadership and ownership of the church. This past Sunday the ladies was asked to be in charge of the entire meeting, we had two women speak for the first time.

The worship team led by Rose is doing exceptionally well, worship is done in four languages namely Dutch,Taki Taki, Hindi and English. During the vacation [September] we had our first missions trip, we took twenty of our folks to the country Guyana. We spent three days in ministry and also painted the inside of the church building [ funds for the paint was raised in the services]. This brought a great sense of fulfillment to the team, our next missions trip is planned for the same time next year to Trinidad.

In a bid to increase fellowship, six weeks ago we started to provide lunch for everyone on Sundays. Members volunteer to come early to cook and the infrastructure of the building makes this very convenient. We receive a second offering to offset the expenses, the meal adds significant value to the fellowship.

On Wednesday 31st October 2007 we started our Bible School with 12 students, our plan is to continue for the next six weeks teaching some of the basics and at the same time evaluating the students ability and commitment to the school.

We will begin officially in January 2008 with a two year course, we hope to get some help from OBIT in preparing a syllabus. All the work will be done in Dutch and we will put together a local staff.