Flexibility

Since landing the plans have been changed on me yet again. I will not be in Port-au-Prince like I had been told just prior to coming. The plans were for me to be there to discuss our plans of action for Missions Adventure this summer, but somewhere between the four days or so that it took me to get here, that changed. As things often do here in Haiti. So now I am at the St. Marc base, catching up on the progress in the tent communities. From what I understand is that we are now in the process of transitioning from the temporary stage of tent housing, and researching the possibilities of more permanent living conditions. Matt from the EARS school this summer has been doing a great job of training people in water and sanitation. There is so much progress being made.
One thing that I have noticed, which is not really positive at all is that the Haitians are beginning to harden their hearts again to God...again. But in my quiet time this morning,
“‘Do not be afraid,’Samuel replied. ‘You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all of your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own.’” (1 Samuel 12: 20-22).
This weekend is also St. Marc’s birthday, which also means that it is also the day that voodoo practicers commonly rededicate their lives to satan. Please pray that the people of Haiti would repent and turn from their wicked ways, and use this time to (re)dedicate their life to the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen.

Haiti

Hi everyone, I am writing to let you know that I have arrived here in Haiti safely. I have been flooded with many happy memories from my previous trip here, and surprisingly the language is coming back quickly too.
In these first few days I have also been able to meet and connect with many of my friends from YWAM Tyler (Amalia, Jaclyn, Rodney, Rhodes and Tammy), and also my buddy Mike from my Salem base.
So far I have been following Mike around a lot and seeing the work first hand that the ministries here are doing in the tent communities. I also got to do some physical labor with Rodney just yesterday, and it was such a treat to be able to work with him and catch up on what has been going on in one another’s lives. God is so good.
Thank you all for all of your prayers, please pray for an increase in unity for all of the workers here, and also for an even greater revelation of the love of God, so that ministry is the result of the overflow of what God is already giving us, and that it is not draining the workers here like it can be at times. Pray that we would lean on God so hard that if he moved we would fall! Pray that we would be fully dependent on God in everything. Thank you.