Update From Dominica

Hello my friend and prayer partner,

Greetings from the nature island of the Caribbean, DOMINICA!! This place is so GREEN matched only by Ireland, to me! Beautiful!!

I arrived on Saturday night from St. Kitts and via Antigua. Got some rest yesterday morning and spoke at a youth rally/convention in the afternoon challenging the young people to be Josiah's to change their generation and the world. It was another awesome God-blessed Spirit-inspired and empowered time. The young people responded. Dozens came forward to surrender to God to be change agents, disciple-makers, missionaries, witnesses for GOD and GOD ALONE! Pray for them! They will need persons to disciple them as they grow in Christ!

Speaking of disciple-making and discipleship, I will be conducting training this week every night other than Saturday in several  parts of Dominica with the Christian Union Churches. Please pray that God moves upon His people to come out and be trained, that they will receive the word from the Holy Spirit and COMMIT to passionately and consistently disciple others including the dozens of young people from yesterday's youth convention! Pray that God  revives and renews His people here. Their District Superintendent, Rev. Marcus Francis, has a similar vision and insight to mine into the church(es) here and in the wider Caribbean. It's like we have spoken about these things before but I only met him once, briefly, in January!  As he opens his mouth and speaks it's as if, I am saying those things. The way we do church in the Caribbean and North America is wrong!! 

The church has become more a social club for the converted rather than a place that goes outside its walls to seek and make disciples for the glory of God, regardless of denomination or local church benefit!! ITS THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAT MUST BE PARAMOUNT IN OUR THOUGHTS AND MINISTRIES! For the most part we seem to be doing things wrong in focusing on having crusades etc. and not on one to one disciple-making and really discipling our people into Christlikeness! This comes through personal relationships! Deep, caring, loving relationships! We have to change course or lose a generation of young people to the world and the enemy!! It is already happening if we care to look!!!

I believe then, that God is moving His prophets and people, inspired by His Spirit, to renew His church here in the Caribbean. I am  convinced of that! We are reaching a moment in time that we either see revival or a wave of persons leaving the church totally disenchanted with what is happening or NOT happening. Am I wrong on this?

Thanks always for your prayers and support. I have and continue to need them. I will be in Dominica until next week Wednesday then go to St. Lucia for a month to get rest first, and then do some more discipleship training! Keep me in your prayers for a rich and abundant ministry and for God provision, protection and care including good health!

Love and much blessing,

In His grip,

Courtney

P.S. My mailing addresses for financial contributions are: RENEWED Ministries, P.O. Box 1229, Mishawaka, IN 46546 (US address) and RENEWED Ministries, C/O Rev. Teddy Jones, The Missionary Church in Jamaica, 9 West Avenue, Kingston 8, Jamaica, West Indies. Deposits can also be made in Jamaica to my Bank of Nova Scotia Account:32918 at Scotia Constant Spring Branch. Make your deposits at any Scotia Bank in Jamaica!