Church Without Walls
// Tim DeTellis
Surrounded in prayer, Pastor Richard Gay from Masson, and Pastor Panel from Bire, traveled with missionary teams of Haitians to serve across their country this summer.
Our New Missions church in Bire sent a record 98 missionaries over the mountains and onto the Caribbean Sea side of Haiti to the town of Port-Salut. They were ready to go preach the Gospel in buses packed with musical instruments, a sound system, and supplies for their one-week journey.
Pastor Richard Gay from our Masson church led a team of missionaries to Petit-Goâve.
To appreciate this today, you have to understand the history of the church in Bire. We began this church by hosting outdoor evangelism services, without walls, in the middle of the carrefour (intersection) of three dirt roads. One of the dirt roads led to our mission on the ocean in Neply, Bord-Mer where we planted our first church. Another road led to LaSalle where we planted our second church. The final dirt road led to the third church we planted in Concrab. Then, in the year 1985, Bire would become the fourth church we planted—where only Voodoo was prominent and there was no school or well.
The Bire church, established in 1985, sent 98 missionaries to Port-Salut for one week.
Pastor Panel and his family went on the mission trip with our Bire church. His wife, Venia Alexi, helped lead worship.
Today, the New Missions Bire church campus is home to our medical clinic, an elementary school with 234 students, and a church without walls—sending missionaries all across Haiti. The local church is unstoppable because it is without walls. ~Tim DeTellis
