Down the road in Despinos

April and Joel live on the left

Hey everyone! We have been very blessed to have trustworthy contacts in Haiti, both American and Haitian. We work with a young couple who are from the states and live next door to the orphanage we currently work with in the village of Despinos, April and Joel Hess. April is an RN and runs a clinic close to her house. Her and Joel also have a school and a church on the property. They have lived full-time in Haiti for a few years now and are a huge blessing to us for their encouragement, positive attitudes, and true servants’ hearts. We received an email from April yesterday that I want to share with everyone about a great prayer request in Despinos. Yeman is a woman who lives in Despinos that is HIV positive. She received salvation through Christ and was believing the Lord for her healing.

“This has been very hard on us. We have invested many hours in Yeman, going to the doctor treating her, feeding her, encouraging and loving her. She had became very dear to us. In the last three months, Yeman’s faith and relationship with Christ had really flourished. She was so excited to be studying the Bible and learning.  She would wake up at 4 am to listen to Christian radio and try to learn the Psalms. She was very faithful to church and very open about her new found walk with Christ. As we know, people can be very cruel and insensitive. She was being persecuted by many people outside her door at night with machete’s etc.. The doctor had recently told her that even with all the treatment, she would never be healed. In the last few weeks, she started to act strange, forget things, and began to wonder off for days, and come home not knowing where she went or what she had done. I was visiting her everyday, praying with her, trying to encourage her, but it seemed the Aids had began to cloud her ability to think clearly, and satan was doing his best to make her fall. One minute she was clear, the next she was not. Saturday night, her mother came knocking at our door at 10 to tell us she had burnt herself. Honestly, I thought it was something small. I rushed to the clinic, to get gloves, protective wear etc.. Nothing prepared me for how bad her situation was. She had burnt her entire body, and her body was still smoking. She had locked her door, and poured gas on her head and lit a match.. Her sister crashed the door in to get to her, but it was too late.

The view from Despinos

Have you ever wanted to be a missionary? Do you love short-term trips but wonder what life would be like to live overseas full-time as a missionary? We are very excited to announce the opening of our new Missionary Training School in February 2010! In just 9 short months, you can not only experience missionary life at its best, but also achieve an accredited Associate’s Degree!

Our school is not just classroom education but personal, real-life experience to teach you about the good and the bad of full-time missions! You will be given the opportunity to see all sides of our ministry in Haiti including remote-area outreach, village evangelism, church planting, orphanage work, pastoral training, and going where the Gospel is unheard! Along with the experience, you will be taught true life on the mission field through video and instructor-led teachings and lots of reading focused on the Bible and mission biographies. We also put on a strong emphasis on you learning the Haitian culture and language, Creole. Our goal is to not just fill you with facts but to allow you to be taught through real-life experience and how to be led by the Holy Spirit through all situations!

If you can’t commit to the full 9 months, we are also offering shorter internships which will give you the same experience in a shorter amount of time and without the degree. You can come for one month to six months and still get the feel for life overseas!

If you are interested or want more information, please visit our Missionary Training School page or email us at reachhaiti@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you! God bless you!

Since January of 2009, we have planted 3 new churches in Haiti. Some of our churches are in very remote areas where no other missionaries work.  Currently, about 600 people are attending these new churches. The Lord has allowed us lead over 1,100 people to him by several different outreach methods in less than five months!

When you partner with us, you are supporting several avenues of ministry. We currently support 3 Pastors, 4 Churches, and 1 new Bible college; we also partner with 2 orphanages. You can be confident that we are putting your support to advancing the Kingdom of God!

Our goal is to move to Haiti on August 2, 2009. For this to happen, several things must quickly be accomplished. Our first goal is to raise our monthly budget and departure expenses. As of May 19, we are at 20% of our monthly target. Since we have just began to extend opportunities for people to sow into this ministry, we are very excited about that!

It is very important for people to support our monthly budget so we can focus on evangelizing, church planting, and caring for the orphans. Many people have told us they would not be willing to move to such an impoverished nation and live the way we will be living. However, for us, it is a great blessing to give our lives to the work of the Lord. We understand that most people are not called to move to another nation, but our belief is, you are either a goer or a giver, one who provides  so others can go. Will you consider partnering with us on a monthly basis today? By becoming a partner, you will help us have departure expenses raised before we leave. We commit to being good stewards of the Lord’s finances that He brings to us.

As for departure expenses, the Lord has really blessed us. Our last trip to Haiti, we had someone pledge to donate around 5 acres to us in a good location. This will help keep our monthly budget low since we will not be renting a place. At the same time, it increases our departure expenses because of the need to build our house and a fence around the property. It is going to cost us approximately $10,000 US dollars to build the first phase of our house and fence. That does not take into account the other expenses of moving and setting up. So please consider a one time donation that will help  us set up the ministry in Haiti.

There are two ways to support us financially. A one time donation  or through monthly support. So please click on the following button for the donation you wish to give.

Thank you for your time and consideration to support us! Above all else, we would like to ask for your prayers. We need to maintain a solid prayer team here to intercede for us constantly as we are doing battle on the frontlines of this war! God bless you!

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We just returned from our last trip to Haiti this week. This is how the Lord is leading us to pray for this time. Agree with us that we will start to see the harvest come forth and for workers to step up and GO to take this nation in Jesus name!

1. To inspire the leaders to advance the Gospel by planting churches in remote areas and grow in understanding and strength in the Lord

2. Complete deliverance in the villages from the enemy’s hands

3. Fixing some technical problems

4. Wisdom for us to go where the Lords wants us to go for outreach

5. For God to show Himself so powerful to the villages that every stronghold of the enemy be destroyed and demolished in Jesus name!

6. Safety and protection from every attack of the enemy against us

7. For God to open the blinded eyes of those serving Voodoo and for the deceitful tactics of the enemy to be brought into the light so the truth can be revealed

8. A supernatural outpouring of the Holy Spirit  with signs and wonders to follow

9. Healings of EVERY sickness and disease

10. For God to bring forth a harvest from all the seeds that were planted so far this month

11. For growth in the four Church plants and for the Pastors to lead with wisdom.

12. For support to put up a coconut leaf church and tin roof. Total cost about $600 us. You can see the picture of the Church above that needs a roof. It is the beginning of the rainy season.

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