A New School Year

This is a beginning of the 2013-2014 school year. Our 3 New Life Elementary schools have started. We are helping over 300 children get a good education with a Christian emphasis. All of our teachers are Christians. Also, we are continuing serving over 20 schools a hot lunch through our nutrition program. Approximately 4400 children get a hot meal every day. This is essential because many a parent is unable to give their children a healthy meal every day.

New Life Bible School has begun its new year. We have over 100 students in our 4 year bachelors program. These men and women are thoroughly trained in the Word of God and equipped to minister in their local churches. These students are touching the lives of thousand of believers and non-believers on a weekly basis.

We are still in the process of re-building several of our churches that were destroyed in the earthquake Haiti had on January 12 of 2010. We are in desperate need of funds and welders. Our Croix des Mission church is running on average of 500 people every Sunday without a roof. Be praying that God supplies this need.

You can always contact us at newlifemission@yahoo.com for any further information.

Going Home

We have been traveling in the states now for 7 weeks. We have visited over 15 churches and many family members and friends. We have been in New York, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Texas and Ontario, Canada. It has been great and we are ready to head back to Haiti. We thank all of you who were such a blessing and encouragement to us.

Enjoying Texas

We are visiting family in Allen, Texas outside of Plano. Yesterday, we played water volley ball with my brother Tim and his wife. Today I went riding bikes with my daughter Rachel. On our ride we saw a baby bunny, Cardinal, Mallard ducks, Great Blue Heron, and 9 turtles on a log. It has been years since I have seen some of this wild life. There is no wildlife to speak of in Haiti. I sure love God's creation.

Traveling

The Lord is good!

We are on our U.S. travels. We spent two weeks up at Elim Fellowship in their missionary apartments. We thank the Lord that they are available to Elim missionaries. The weather was from cold to warm to cold. It was never hot and didn't break a sweat the whole time I was there. Of course, I wasn't very active either. Yet, in Haiti you don't have to move a muscle and you sweat.

We visited several churches around Lima, Ny and we are now on our road trip. We are presently in Mountain Top, Pennsylvanian. We shared with a church group here. From here we are going to New York City to share at Rehaboath  church in Brooklyn. From there we will be going to Delaware to speak at new church pastored by Bob Muncy.

We have already been blessed and encouraged by many people and trust that we were a blessing and encouragement as well.

Rejoicing

We have much to rejoice about.

- God has brought us through another school year in Haiti.
- We were able to pay all our bills before we left Haiti to travel in the States.
- Margaret has published her first book, "The Voice of the Shepherd" which you can purchase through this blog.
- We are attending Elim Leadership Conference and are being ministered to by God through the speakers.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you while in the States. We will be in the States until July 9th. Please be praying for us as we do much traveling and speaking.

We say, rejoice in the Lord and again we say, rejoice in the Lord always.

Busy with Groups

Life here continues to be busy.  Right now we have a team of 5 from NY state welding trusses for the Croix des Mission church. They will have 4 completed and hope to start the 5th by the time they leave on Friday.  We are excited to see these finally come together.  We thank each of you who have prayed and given towards this project. 

We have another team coming in April to put these 5 up and hopefully to weld some more.  We are still in need of funds for this project, so keep praying with us about this.  We'd like to see it completed!

The Croix des Mission church has been holding daily evangelistic services for the past 40 days and over 40 have received Christ as Savior!  We were there for service on Sunday and there were over 600 in attendance!  We praise God for the good work He is doing in this area.

On another note, we are planning to be in the NY area from May 20th - July 10.  We'd love to see you and visit in your church while we're there.  We are looking for a vehicle to use while in NY, especially on the weekends to visit churches.  We will also need a place to stay from June 3 - July 10.  If you know of someone who can help meet these needs, please have them contact us by email as soon as possible at newlifemission@yahoo.com

 

New Year

It has been a long time since we have written a blog. We mostly send up dates by email. Yet, today I thought I would update you this way.

We are now into 2013. Our 8 churches and 6 schools are going strong. New Life Bible school in into its second trimester. We are running 100 students in the Bible school with 15 teachers on staff. This is a drop in students of about 50 this year. The main reason is because the economy is poor and the students are unable to pay for their studies. If all those who wanted to come to the Bible school had the means we would have over 200 students every year. If you would like to sponsor a student, you can write us at stnvhaiti@yahoo.com and we will explain how you can do this.

Haiti is on an even keel for the time being. I feel the country is moving forward. There has been a lot of progress made since the earthquake in 2010.

We are still rebuilding our main church. We are now needing to put the roof on which will cost over $20,000. If you would like to give to this need contact us at the above email address. The church is running around 600 people every Sunday.

We are believing God for great things this coming year.

Margaret and I are doing well. God continues to supply our every need.