THE NEXT PLATEAU: I CANNOT DO THIS ALONE!

On Thursday, August 10, 2006, Tuesday’s posting, “THE STATEMENT” was shared with me in conversation at a Red Lobster Restaurant on Highway 50, near Orlando by Pastor Ecclesias in the company of Pastor Julio Brutus from the Haitian Church of the Nazarene in Winter Haven, Florida.

Realizing the seriousness of his words, from the beginning, I knew we needed to write it down, so with the help of Pastor Julio translating where English was difficult, we were able to take dictation and documented this the Pastor’s statement. Pastor Ecclesias approved the translation as you read it.

THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
Subsequent conversation produced our planning the ABBAQUEST LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OCT. 28 – NOV. 6. Pastor Ecclesias is expecting at least 400 people, who are in a leadership capacity, to be in attendance. There will be two morning sessions and two afternoon sessions for five days. The dates above include traveling and the week-end services I will be preaching at the Tabernacle.

The Theme of the conference is “Dwelling in the Secret Place”. Subjects covered will include, “The Importance of Personalized Worship”, “Praying Effectually” and “Understanding Who’s in Charge”.

This is not a vacation trip. The cost is self-supporting, the days are long, the nights are hot, the teaching is through an interpreter, and the food is different! The rewards are remarkable.

THE FATHER’S CONFIRMATION
The evening of the 10th of August, I received a check dated 8/3/06 for $500.00 with a note, “Haiti Mission Expense”. That was seven days prior to the meeting at the restaurant. Before we called He answered, while we were yet speaking He was hearing us. God was dove-tailing His heart with Pastor Ecclesias’ heart.

Anyone, desiring to be a part of helping with finances for airfare, teaching materials (such as notebooks, paper, pens,) and food for at least 400 (two meals a day) for five days and diddy-bags, plasticware plates, bowls etc., generator gasoline to run lights and fans in the classrooms and guest suite (incl. pumping bathroom facilities’ water), please send your check made out to:

Spirits Aflame, Inc.
c/o 201 N.E. 8th Avenue
Ocala, Florida 34470

Place a short note in the envelope that says: For AbbaQuest Ministries, Haiti Conference. “Spirits Aflame, Inc” is a finance clearing house for missionary and ministry efforts in various places around the world. It is a non-profit 501c3 incorporation that receives and disburses our funds.

YOUR VALUE IS GREAT TO THIS CAUSE
I beg each of you to pray for me in these days. No, intercede for me! Stand in the gap, take hold of God and truly get His attention on our behalf. (He loves that!!) My friends, you are of great value to my life and ministry. God truly cares about these people. If you pray, HE WILL MOVE. He will bless AbbaQuest with HIS anointing. IF YOU PRAY, we will become instruments in His Hand for the spreading of His Salvation throughout Haiti. Training these leaders is the beginning of the Lord raising up a mighty army of His Servants that will be sent throughout this country to bring Eternal Life to individuals and historical change to the nation. If you pray God will answer and do great and mighty things beyond our farthest expectation. I cannot express how valuable you are to me. Please PRAY. Our ABBA is listening.

WINTER HAVEN, FLORIDA IN SEPTEMBER
Pastor Julio Brutus has asked me to be the guest speaker at his LADIES CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 22-24 at the Winter Haven Haitian Church of the Nazarene.

NETWORKING WITH JWEA IN JANUARY 2007
International Evangelist, Jim Wilson has also called and asked me to go with him to Cap-Haitien in January 2007 as part of a preaching and teaching team. It will be in conjunction with a Medical Mission and Pastor’s School of Evangelism the Jim Wilson Evangelistic Association is planning with Pastor Ecclesias and the Tabernacle of Praise Church. I told him I believed the Lord would have me participate in his efforts.

PRACTICAL HELP
I am grateful for each of you who read this site. Please share our information and web address with your friends in your address book. Print out the page with Pastor Ecclesias’ statement on it and give it to your Pastor. Speak with your pastor about my coming to your church. “Have Bible…will travel”. I am also available for “House Meetings” with 12 to 24 adults in attendance for one night, or up to three consecutive nights.

My phone number is: 352-867-1006.

I love you and please know…
You are deeply appreciated.

Dave Toler

FROM HAITI: A STATEMENT FROM THE PASTOR OF THE “TABERNACLE OF PRAISE”

My Friend and Brother David Toler:

In July 18-24 you came to my people and gave yourself tirelessly to them. Choosing to stay with us at the church compound, you suffered much inconveniences and discomforts. With joy you entered into our lifestyle and even ate what we ate. You were “one” with us, my Brother. Your love for us became evident from the beginning.

In each service you preached, it seemed you were digging a well. You were getting to know us and letting the people get to know you. You preached from the heart, not from the head. There were many hundreds of responses to the invitations given all week, about 2,000. But it was on the last night, during your last sermon something really special happened. On that night my people got “goose bumps” at the Word of the Lord to their hearts. You, not being a Haitian and not being used to them, were moved on by the Holy Spirit and He got you inside of these people’s hearts. During the invitation, I turned around, with tears in my eyes, and told you, “My Brother, you have just started and you are about to leave”. That night the Holy Spirit came like a spring of water gushing up into their hearts through your preaching. It was as though the Comforter and the “starter” teamed up at the Tabernacle that night for something more!

Since your leaving, people come to me and say, “When is the white preacher coming back. He touched our hearts.”

The enemy detained you getting to us, but God turned it around. It was good! But what God has started has yet to be finished. Please you must come back and begin to finish what God has begun through you.

We are a young ministry that will be 15 years old in January 2007. We began with three, then 20 under a tree, and now over 10,000. I need your help. There is much to do, many to train and a nation needing the “light” of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. God has called you to us. If it were not so I would not be talking like this to you. My leadership people, about 400, need you to help them grow in the Lord and His Word, so they can become instruments of God to change this country. I believe the Holy Spirit has chosen this hour in your life and ours. Even now they ask, “When is he coming back?”

Please my Brother, my Friend, come over to our “Macedonia” and help us.

Spoken by:
Pastor Ecclesias Donatien
Tabernacle of Praise Church, Cap-Hatien, Haiti