Meet the Claypools

Tonight at church we had the Claypool family as our special guests. Doug and Amanda Claypool are missionaries to Sao Tome and Principe, Africa. Doug started off by presenting a slideshow with pictures from their mission field. He explained the culture differences and the obstacles they had to face in order to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a 3rd world country. After the presentation, the Claypool family blessed us with 2 songs in which they sang both English and Portuguese on. It was really a great treat. Then Pastor Doug brought a wonderful message from John 3:5-7: "Ye Must Be Born Again." He explained in detail what it meant to be born again. I had never heard it brought out in such a way before.

I so admire people like the Claypools that are willing to sacrifice everything in order to spread the Gospel. It would be a very scary thing for me to leave everything that I know and love to move to a country where I couldn't speak the language or have any family. I'm glad that God calls folks to fill that much needed ministry.