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One Truck and One Crate
You have heard of two men and a truck for moving well let us tell you how to furnish a house with a truck and a crate.
The longer we serve as missionaries the more God shows us how we can do with less and still be perfectly happy.
As you know Teresa and I started with a new mission in February this year.  In the mission house there were two rooms available for us to claim and furnish and make our “living quarters”.  We made one a bedroom and one a living room/office.  With some funds from us, family, and friends and a lot of hard work and expertise of Danny, Teresa’s brother, along with a little help from Sams and IKEA, we found out you can furnish two rooms quite well from a crate.
In seven days we painted the two rooms and a bathroom. Danny built a bed, 3 shelves, a desk, 3 towel racks, 3 clothes racks, a pulpit, a picture frame, refurbished a vanity and fixed the plumbing. Teresa and I assembled 2 chairs and foot stools, 2 rocking chairs, a closet, 2 …

Sunday morning found us heading up the mountain to the Casetashe Christian Church. A beautiful ride up the mountain along the coast and then we headed inland to get to the Church.  I had the privilege of sharing God’s Word with them as I spoke from 1 Peter chapter one. I reminded them of the hope we have in Christ if we stand firm as our faith is refined by fire.  The greatest Joy came after the service was over and we headed down the mountain to the river for four baptisms. The preacher had taught them well and 4 were ready to be baptized into Christ.  We loaded up the truck and started making our way down the mountain. As we were about to begin the baptisms a teen-age girl came down the path and asked if she could be baptized also. Well it turns out she had walked down the mountain by herself because she was so eager to be baptized. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
Praise the Lord, God has 5 new children who were born again and adopted into His family on March 27, 2011.

Yesterday after church a woman, Saint-Fonie Petit-frere,  decided to be a follower of Christ.  But what makes this even more amazing is that Saint-Fonie is a Mambo (a female Voodoo Priest).  We left after church services with  most of the church congregation and walked to her house singing hymns the entire time.  When we got to her house she wanted Mike and the leaders to pray for her.
They wanted me to go in and take some pictures.  As I stepped into the small room in her house the smell of liqour was very strong.  I felt strange coming in and taking pictures of the things that she used in her voodoo ceremonies.  There were things hanging from the wooden rafters, and there were books, cards, dolls, knives, liqour bottles, drum, a skull (and things that I have no idea what they really represented) but after that they prayed again for this house to become a house of God instead of a house of Satan.
They placed everything outside the room and then began to sweep it clean.  They made sure to get every piece of paper that had writing on it, …

Blogging is not my thing but I know it is important. I have two great stories to blog about and they both have to do with what I love and feel is the most important work in the world — evangelism. Preaching and teaching others about Christ—sowing the seed—letting God give the increase— saving souls is our number 1 priority. There is nothing more important in this world than preparing people for eternity. Satan sure likes us to focus on other things, some are even good things, but may we always remember Jesus’ last words before He departed. — Matt. 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matt. 28:20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Now that my mini sermon is thru on with the two great stories. Last Wenesday we started with our crusade in Mare Rouge. Mare Rouge is out toward the west end of the  northern penisula part of the island. The city …

As I write this post this morning I am trying to think of some clever thing to say — we’ll it’s just not there so we’ll just talk about the things God puts before us and the work we are really called to do.

Friday morning we are heading out to Mare Rouge — a new church plant.  The crusade starts Wednesday night and will continue through Sunday.  That is the way we do the crusades here in Haiti.  These remind of the days when our Restoration Heritage was started long ago in the United States.  People come to see and hear what is going on and with that the Word of God is preached for many to hear.  These crusades are well received here in Haiti and usually many people are won to Christ during this time.  This is also the way that we begin our new church plants.  We have several of our pastors go to the new area and talk to the people of that community, talk to the leaders of the community and scope out the best place to hold the conference and also look for a …

When disaster strikes – the human spirit responds. It jumps in to high gear to help those who have been affected. People line up to give blood. Millions of dollars are given and relief supplies roll in. Rescue teams go to ground zero and see things that people never want to see. They put in endless hours and for all of theses things we – “Praise the Lord!” — Faith must have works and good intentions must have hands and feet.
But there are another set heroes we never hear about in the news or over the Internet. They are the Unsung Heroes. They are the Key to the whole operation. We may not know all of there names but heaven does. — Who are these unsung heroes? — They are the first responders –they are Fearless Prayer Warriors. These warriors guard and gird up the world with prayer. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some old — some young. They are located all around the world and make no mistake they keep “the watch fires of heaven burning.”
These warriors pray and Jesus and heaven stop to listen. When they …

I have been trying to write this post for about 3 weeks now.  It started in my mind while we were in the states. As Mike and I travel to speak and present the work that we and Northwest Haiti Christian Mission are involved in — I cannot help but get overwhelmed at times with all of the generosity that pours out from God’s people. Tears have not come easy to me through the years (I always thought it was girlie or I would be considered a cry-baby and me being a tomboy — you can imagine) but I have been so touched that my heart is just overwhelmed.    
We were in North Carolina going to Cape Lookout to look at the wild ponies and were just talking about the work in Haiti.  When we finished that afternoon and pulled up to the dock we offered the captain of the boat a tip — he said no and reached in his pocket and gave us his entire days’ worth of tips for the work in Haiti.  Now that is amazing.  He did not even know us but felt God’s …

(Having trouble getting pictures to upload — will publish them when I can)
Monday, June 20, 2009 @ 3:00 p.m., Wedding Day Bliss for Vogly and Ermante.  Well as most things in Haiti, Vogly’s wedding was on Haiti time.  Mike had talked to Vogly about how important it is to start on time and actually thought he had gotten that point across — but, 2:45 p.m. and Ermante is taking a bath.  It is now 3:10 and we are just starting to put on her wedding dress and get her all fixed up.  No one extra is here except for the bride’s family that was brought by tap-tap by the mission so they had to be on time because Mike made sure it left in plenty of time.  It was very, very hot while we were getting ready for the wedding. Poor Ermante was sweating so much just getting into her dress.  
Finally — 4:00 p.m. and it is time to start.  Mike comes up to me and says — don’t you know, you are the maid of honor.  Well, no I did not know and I really did not have …

From June 17th thru June 24th we had 5 different groups come stay with us out in BeauChamp.  Some were just for overnight and some were for the entire time.  But it was amazing to see just how much ministry could get done during that time.  We built cisterns, ran wire for electricity and put up fans in the Ministry Room, taught the youth, did a VBS, gave out peanut butter sandwiches — all for the glory of God our Father.  We even broke our record for the largest amount to stay on the roof — can you say 64!!
Capital Area Christian Church Youth from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania came in to help with the building of a Haitian Home. T-Poppa from BeauChamp Church was selected.  T-Poppa and his wife have been married for quite a few years and have never had their own place.  They first lived with his parents, her parents and then were living in separate places.  They now have a rented house but the rent was due in July — now they are going to be able to have their own house and live together with their 2 …

For those of you who know Vogly (our Haitian interpreter) — well he is getting married.  He met Ermante Merzuis in BeauChamp.  She is a member of the church and is also in Teresa’s sewing program.  Well the ‘ole love bug bit and it bit hard.  We seldom see him unless he has to be working!  Guess where he is at?
Vogly and Ermante have nothing to get started.  It is our hope and prayer that they can have a nice wedding (they plan to do a small one).  They want to get married at the beginning of July but like most young couples, money is an issue.  We would like for them to have one night in a motel for a honeymoon and then things to help them set up house — a bed, a table, chairs, cooking utensils, etc.
Hopefully Vogly’s house will be completed by the end of summer.  This will be on the property here in BeauChamp at our campus.
Anything you could do to help them out would be greatly appreciated.  Please send your donations to the following and designate for Vogly’s wedding.  We will then get the …