Photos from Monday and Tuesday

Honorè with his youngest daughter, Aurelle.

His middle daughter Jessica.

Oldest Shekinah

This is Alexis, a pastor born in Nigeria, so he knows some English. The three of us are all about the same age, and the oldest here today. Lisa is the oldest by seven months, making her the honored elder!

This is Jobet (French  version of Obed). The office calls him Joe Biden, I said we need to find a better Joe nickname.

This is James and I during my teaching, more about that below.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2026

 

Today was a pastors seminar at Mission Soliel d’Espoire, Sun of Hope Mission, or MSE. There were about 25 men at the conference. This was for pastors who have proven they are willing to preach the word, and were invited to encourage them on their journey of service.

 

I was assigned to teach on the topic “Being a Faithful Servant of the Lord”. All those in attendance are French speaking, so my teaching was through an interpreter. I met yesterday with James who would translate for me, and shared my topic. My focus was first salvation by grace thru faith, then assurance of salvation, and finally rewards which will be given to faithful servants.

 

He said he has been preaching on this topic for the past year! We talked further and were of the same mind on nearly everything It was great to work with him on this project.

 

After some singing and praying, Honoré introduced the day and gave a short talk on what he wanted the men to focus on. Some of his points were right in line with verses I was going to use in my teaching.

 

I delivered my talk, working thru James to translate, and it went well. Thank you for praying! There were good questions and input to help answer those questions from many of the men. After Q&A, I closed by singing a verse of a song called “It’s Not in Vain”. I have sung this with a quartet years (decades) ago. Total time for my session was about 90 minutes, which was just the right amount of time.

 

After a coffee break, the next speaker, a man who serves with Campus Crusade here, spoke. His first scripture verse was 1 Cor. 15:58, which is the text that is the basis for the song.

 

It was great to see how well the three teachings fit together. We met a number of very nice men. It is a real blessing to be here!