The LeC lercqs - Missionaries to Guam
Testimony
My Name is Paul LeClercq, I was saved at the age of nine and surrendered to be a missionary at age eleven at youth camp. I grew up in a military home till my dad retired from the Air Force when I was 18. I had the privilege of living on Guam when my dad was stationed there from 93’-95’. I attended a Christian school while living there and all my classmates were either islanders or some other Asian descent, and I loved it. I quickly fell in love with the Chamorro culture and the Chamorro people as a whole. I had always gone soul-winning with my dad, until one day he was needed elsewhere and I went with a new convert. I had the opportunity to personally win an adult woman to the Lord and the Lord placed a seed in my heart that would grow into a burden for these people. We were stationed elsewhere and I soon knew that Guam was where God would have me to go back as a missionary.
I went to Heartland Baptist Bible College from 99’-2003 and met my wife Sarah there. I worked in a church in New Hampshire as assistant Pastor and youth director until 2005 when we moved to Benton, AR and began deputation under Dr. Ken Graham in 2007. After four and a half years on deputation we moved to Guam in 2012.
OUR CHURCH
Minagahet Baptist Church was started in July of 2016. Our first service had an attendance of 10. We met on Sunday mornings at the Inarajan Garden House, where the director was kind enough to let us use the lobby area, fully furnished and air conditioned, rent free. After about two months we arrived at the hotel on a Sunday morning for services only to find that the hotel had closed, indefinitely.
After months of searching for new location to hold services, the Lord provided us with a home in Inarajan that also had a bonus building that we could use for church services. The building has been renovated and cleaned up, and we now hold services there every Sunday.
We are an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church (see Statement of faith) that teaches the truth in love. We have a heart and a desire to see the Chamorro people of Guam come to know the truth from God's word without any of man's traditions. Minagahet is a Chamorro word that means absolute truth. Of course everyone is welcome, and we desire that all the lost come to know Jesus.
Sunday morning services at Minagahet Baptist!
