Road Trip To Fond de Blanc, Haiti

This past week I went to our mission church out in the country side to minister and thought some of you may want to see the roads that I must go over to get to this place. Much of the road is dry river beds and others are roads carved out of the mountain by hand, and at some spots no larger than my truck.

I praise the Lord for our good 4 wheel drive Ford Ranger pickup truck that is able to go every where no matter the terrain.

ENERGY CRISIS - SOLAR PANELS NEEDED

We want to thank you, our prayer supporters, who have stood with us in prayer during these difficult times in Haiti. We thank the Lord that for the past 2 weeks that the country has returned back to normal in many ways. The major protesting has ended for now, but the long-term impact it has made on the nation is great. Many businesses and missionaries (NGO groups) have left for good and others are contemplating when they will return. Most mission groups have cancelled for the year.

The political instability has worsened the economical and social problems in Haiti. One of the things that it has affected is the amount electricity (city power) that you receive. There has been a shortage of electricity these past few months, and it has only become worse.

In the past 48 hours we have received 20 minutes of power from the electrical company without much hope that things will get much better. Our generator and inverter backup system can not keep up with the energy that is needed to run our house and Bible College.

We are needing to go to solar panels which we have resisted doing in the past due to its initial cost. Therefore, we are asking funds to buy 8 - 315w solar panels to put on the roof of our building. The cost of purchasing and install the solar panels will be $3800.

Please consider helping us meet this urgent need.

Also, continue praying for Haiti because it may be at its lowest point in 30 years. Yet, we are not discouraged because our Lord is able to do above and beyond all that we could imagine or think.

God bless you,

HAITI IN TURMOIL AND MANY LOSING HOPE

February 2019

Greetings in the name of our wonderful Savior and Lord, I trust that God is blessing you and using you for His kingdom. Matthew 6:10 says, “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

This is what Jesus commanded us to pray. God wants His kingdom to be established on the earth. His kingdom is already on earth through His church. Now we, as the church, must extend His kingdom through proclaiming the Good News of the Gospel and by living lives worthy of the kingdom. We are especially praying this for Haiti.

As many of you may already know, Haiti was locked down for 10 days. What I mean by this is that for 10 days the opposition to the Haiti president (Jovenel Moise) closed down all roads and activities through the country. If anyone tried to defy them by going out, their lives were in danger. The result of this was that no businesses or offices were open for 10 days, and no food was transported to the open markets, which most people depend on. Haitians live day to day by what they are able to sell each day and most have no way to conserve their food. Most were shut in their houses or never left their neighborhoods, including us. All this has brought Haiti to the brink of a humanitarian crisis.

We thank the Lord that our home and neighborhood were safe and we had all that we needed during this time. It has now been 4 days of relative calm and almost normal activity in Port-Au-Prince and most other areas of Haiti. Most schools have not yet re-opened. We ask you to keep us and Haiti in your prayers.

Pray -
1) That New Life Bible College may be able to function this week. We’ve already missed 2 weeks of classes do to the unrest in the country.
2) That there be an end to the political unrest, which is still very volatile.
3) That the government leaders, and those who have political power, seek the best interest of all who live in this beautiful country.
4) That the hearts and minds of the people be opened to the truth of God’s Word and applied in their lives.

We firmly believe that the root of all the problems in Haiti is first and foremost spiritual and secondly a lack of good education. New Life Mission of Haiti is seeking to change these two things through Bible training, elementary schools, and church planting.

We thank all those who have been praying for us during this time. We could not be serving God here in Haiti without your prayers and financial support.

We challenge those who have not been involved in what God is doing in Haiti to ask the Lord what your part would be. Also, we encourage those who are already standing with us to remain faithful and ask God if there is anything new or different you could be doing as we fight a mighty battle against the principalities and powers of darkness in this nation.

Pressing on in difficult times in the joy of the Lord,
Roger & Margaret Clark

A special thank you to all who helped purchase the computers for our pastors.
We were able to purchase 7! They will be hand delivered to us in March.
A blessing for all.
 

Our mailing address is:
Roger & Margaret Clark, 100 Airport Ave #433, Venice, FL 34285
newlifemission@yahoo.com

Send gifts to:
Elim Fellowship, 1703 Dalton Road, Lima, NY 14485
www.elimfellowship.org
Please include a note stating "preferred for Roger Clark Grant Fund"

Thank you.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

“The Word became flesh and made
his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
John 1:14

Dear Friends & Family,
As we are in the Christmas season, it is time again to celebrate the greatest gift of all, Jesus the Christ. It is a wondrous and glorious thing that our God took on our humanity that He might be our Savior and perfect High Priest who daily fights on our behalf. He is full of grace and truth. By His grace we are saved, and through the same grace, he sustains us. As we allow His truth to renew our hearts and minds, we are being transformed into His image.

We pray that you have a blessed Christmas and Happy New Year. As we reflect back on 2018, we are so thankful for God’s faithfulness to us personally and the ministry that He has given us. Also, we are thankful for your financial and prayerful support. We could not be doing what we are doing without you.

As we look towards the new year, we know that he goes before us. We are believing for great things. We are believing for his continued financial support, and protection over us. We are believing for the New Life Bible College pavilion to be completed which will serve as a multi-purpose facility. We are believing that God will allow us to establish several satellite Bible schools in key areas of Haiti.

As we look towards 2019, we make an appeal for teams to come and serve the wonderful people of Haiti. We are looking for building teams, ministry teams or a combination of both.

Pavilion Needed for New Life Bible College

Margaret and I are doing well. We are working hard in preparing for the new school year. We want to thank all those who support a school child and/or a Bible college student. Without your support we would not be able to educate over 300 elementary children and train over 80 men and women in our Bible College. Also, we thank each and every one of our supporters for their prayers and faithful giving.

New Life Bible College begins on September 1^st and we would like to challenge you to help us put up a large pavilion (30ftx30ft) for New Life Bible college. This pavilion will be a multi-purpose facility for New Life Bible College, which is greatly needed. It will be used as a gathering place for students between classes as well as a cafeteria/classroom. Until this is built, there will be no good place for our students to gather or eat their lunches. 

The cost of this project is $18,000 which will be done in two stages. The first stage costing $7,400 and the second stage 10,600. We encourage you to send funds to enable us to complete this much needed facility.

Also, if you would like to send a team to work on pouring the columns (pillars) for this facility, we would love to have you. Just email us and we can start planning for your trip.

GRADUATION 2018 & PAVILLION

We rejoice in the Lord that 28 of our Bible College students graduated on May 26th. We are proud of each and every one of them that persevered in their studies over a 5 year period and received their bachelor’s degree in theology. Many are already making and impact in their local churches and society as a whole. We are believing for greater works through them for the kingdom of Christ.    

We are presently in the United States and will be returning to Haiti on July 3rd. We are enjoying spending time with family and friends. 

Please pray:
1) As we travel and share in 3 churches on the West Coast.
2) For Haiti because the economy does not seem to be improving, and violence is on the rise.
3) That God provides for the pavilion we need to build for New Life Bible College. 

Please consider giving to the second phase of building this pavilion which is estimated at $3,500. This is a much needed place for our students to eat their lunches, and will also be used as a large classroom. 

Pavilion Going Up & Leadership Conference

Footers (Foundations for Columns)

Last Month was a very busy month for us. We had John Wicks in who helped kick off the pavilion that we are building for New Life Bible College. After he left, we had our Haitian builders continue putting in the footers (the base or concrete pads for the columns) for the pavilion (12 in all). We now need to pour our concrete columns which will hold up our steel and corrugated roofing system. This second phase of the project is estimated at $3,500. Please consider giving towards this second phase of the project that we might have a nice place for our students to eat their lunches, and to use as a classroom when needed. In the month of March, we had a great retreat for our New Life Mission leaders.

We had 43 leaders who attended this 3 day retreat. We thank Pastor Robert Muncy for bringing 4 speakers from various churches and ministries in the United States to minister to our church leaders. They spoke on “Ministering out of our Relationship with the Father as Sons and Daughters”. This teaching is much needed since our church culture here seeks to merit God’s favor through living right and doing good works, instead of serving Him out of the position they have in Christ.

New Life Mission Leadership Retreat