A Fresh Start

Once again I begin with this blog. Please pray that I will work faithfully on this blog. Much has went on since my last entry and I am grateful for God's blessings on our life. We have seen God working in our lives and the peoples lives here. We have been able to remodel our church and have taken in a four month old little boy. The attendance at church has been good and we look forward to God's blessings on VBS this year as a group from our home church will be coming down to assist us. We also have a group coming in the fall for a crusade. We all are excited and ask that you pray for the work here and for God's blessings on it. Bro. Keith

Catching up

It' been quite some time since our last blog and for that I apologise. We are thankful for God's continued presence in our lives and look forward to what he has in store for us. We are anxiously awaiting the return of McKenzie and Zackary from the states. They have spent a good part of the summer at bible camps and God has really blessed them through the ministries of Bro Duane Moore, Bro Mark Stroud and Bro. Andy Wells. We are thankful for these men of God and for the blessing they have been to our children.
We also look forward to the arrival of Tracy's parents here on Bequia. They will arrive with the children the first week of August. They will be coming to stay with us and to be a help in the church. We look forward to having Mawmaw an Pawpaw here on a fulltime basis. Please pray for them as they come and adjust to island life.
We also ask that you for Bro. David Ballinger who will be coming down to work with us for 6 months. David is a young man who loves God and has a special burden for young people. We look forward to see what God has in store for his time here and for the future. He will also be a blessing in assisting us with some construction projects we have in mind for the church.
Please be praying for a special need we have. We are currently in dire need of a van to help transport people back and forth to church. We could get a good used one for around $7000. We have received $1000 toward this and we ask that you prayerfully consider this need.
We are very excited about what God is doing here. We are planning for a crusade next year with Bro. Duane Moore and others and potentially a bible camp here next year. Keep all these things in your prayers.

Bro. Keith

Preaching Time Ministries

One of our great blessings is to be associated with Preaching Time Ministries and Brother Duane Moore. His ministry has been a tremendous blessing to our family. Brother Moore is a full-time Missions Evangelist preaching the gospel in revival meetings year round. Brother Moore and PTM also operate and assist with various Youth Camps throughout the summer including PTM's own PTM Basic Training. Our children have been privileged to take part in theses camps through PTM's MK outreach. This is a program offered for missionary's children to be able to attend several weeks of camp free of charge with housing, feeding and special activities included during this time. It has been a highlight of my children's lives for 3 years now and I can't say enough about the blessings of this ministry on our family. Our daughter Lindsay will testify of this firsthand, she met her husband there.

Now all of these camps (they offer 3 camps free of charge to MK's) and other ministries are based on funds availability.I strongly recommend anyone who can supporting this worthy ministry. Brother Moore has a heart for the lost and a burden for young people and the children of missionaries. I am thankful for this and am grateful for the influence Brother Moore's ministry has had on my children.
Bro Keith

Gospel Light Baptist Church

Gospel Light Baptist Church is located on the island of Bequia in the community of Ocar Reform in the Hamilton area. We are an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. Our schedule is as follows: Sunday school 10:00AM, Morning worship 11:00AM, Sunday Evening worship 6:00PM and Thursday Mid-week service at 7:00PM. We also have a Ladies Bible study on Tuesdays at 7:00PM and a Children's meeting on Saturdays at 3:00PM. We cordially invite you to each and every service. Everyone Welcome

Our Beliefs: We are pretribulationist, premillennial, and fundamental in doctrine and separatist in practice, opposing modernism, ecumenicalism, neoevangelicalism and the charismatic movement.
We also believe that the King James Bible is the bible for english speaking people. It is our only bible in practice and study. It is the inspired, inerrant word of God.

About Us

Isaiah's reply to God's question of "Who will go for us?" has always been an important question for me. My hearts desire is to be as faithful as Isaiah and always reply "here am I Lord send me." This desire has stuck with me since God called me to preach and also for the past 15 years as I've served the Lord in missions.

My family and I have been serving the Lord in missions since April of 1994, ten of those years we spent in the country of Romania. We were able to be a part of a ministry with 7 other families and saw God do great thing among the Turkish people of Romania and Bulgaria.Thousands of Turks have been saved over the years there and we are so thankful that God allowed us to part of that work.

In 2004 God began to work in our lives to get us back on this side of the world and we thought for awhile that we might pursue a work in the states. We could not receive any peace from God about this and God soon began directing us back into foreign mission work. At our mission boards annual conference we were earnestly seeking God to guide us exactly where he would want us and I am thankful to say that God is faithful. As our field director for the West Indies began sharing, God began working on my heart and then Brother Nye made this statement, "right now in the West Indies we have 12 missionaries, we could use 212". When he said that the Holy Ghost settled it in my heart and my only reply was " here am I Lord,send me.

With 40 million people and thousands of islands in the West Indies our next step was where. God has been faithful and led us to the island of Bequia in the St. Vincent and Grenadine Islands. We believe this is where God would have us serve Him. Bequia is a small island of around 5000 people with no Independent Bible believing church outside of our church Gospel Light Baptist Church. The people have plenty of religion it is our desire to give them the truth.

My family and I are sent out of Love Valley Baptist Church in Kings Mountain, NC. Our pastor is Brother Barry Philbeck. We are with Macedonia World Baptist Missions and are Independent Fundamental Baptist in our faith and doctrine. We do not believe in or support the Charismatic movement or Ecumenicalism and we also oppose Neo-Evangelicalism. We believe in being sperated from the world and that the King James Bible is the bible for English speaking people. It is our only bible in practice and study.

I have been blessed with a wonderful wife Tracy to whom I've been married almost 23 years. We have 6 children, four are here on the field with us and 2 are living in the states. Brittany our oldest is married to Michael Lindsay the youth leader at our home church and has blessed us with our grandson Ethan and will soon be blessing us with a new grandchild in November. Lindsay our second is married to Jeffrey Perry son of missionary church planter Jeff Perry and is currently with her husband in Wyoming. Mckenzie, Zackary, Riley and Kylie are with us here on Bequia. In closing I want to thank God for my wife and children. They've always been faithful to God and followed the His leadership on my life and theirs. God has really blessed me. God bless you all.

Brother Keith

Bequia

The island of Bequia was named so by the Caribs. This is the largest of the St Vincent and Grenadines measuring 7 sq miles with a population of 4,851(2001 Census). Bequia is situated between St.Vincent (9 miles to the north) and Mustique to the south. English is the official language. The main religions are the Anglican, Evangelical, Roman Catholic, Seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witness, Spiritual Baptist and the Pentecostals. The Climate averages in the winter between 70 and 85 and in the summer between 75 and 90. Winters are dry and summers showery. The currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar. Bequia is a small mountainous island where we drive on the left. There are no fast food restaurants or commercial supermarkets. It is a friendly island with the care of passing yachts and sailboats their major industry. The average income is between $500 to $800ec which is $190 to $300 US dollars.

Our Mission Board

The purpose of Macedonia World Baptist Missions is to assist local independent Baptist churches in the servicing of their missionary families as they are sent forth around the world to propagate the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the goal of establishing local New Testament Churches. Macedonia World Baptist Missions is pretribulationist, premillennial, and fundamental in doctrine and separatist in practice, opposing modernism, ecumenicalism, neoevangelicalism and the charismatic movement.

Located just 4 miles off Interstate 85, in Braselton, Georgia, the International Headquarters of Macedonia World Baptist Missions is situated in the cross-roads of the southeastern United States. The Home Office is the center of all operations for the missionaries sent through Macedonia and the churches who support them. All of their finances come through the office. Records are made and transmitted to the missionaries of all income and its disbursement according to their instructions. Supporting churches receive statements showing the receipt of their funds and its disbursements according to their instructions.

The Lord has increased the number of missionary families that we are endeavoring to service around the world. None of the money received goes to the operation of the Home Office unless it is specifically designated for that purpose. Nor does Macedonia charge the missionary for handling their funds. The Home Office operates by faith just as the missionaries on the field. The directors whether it be General Director, Assistant Director, Administrator or Field Directors do not receive a salary. They must raise their own support.

All of our facilities here at the International Headquarters are geared to assist the missionary and the church in evangelizing the world for Christ.