Prayer Partners: Christmas is truly in the air and we at New Generation Ministries are praying that you are having a blessed time. Can you imagine first coming to salvation in the name of Jesus? Remember that amazing feeling. You felt so new, so alive, so wanting to know what to do next. You immersed yourself into your Bible. But what if you didn't have a Bible? What if there was no Bible book store? What if the small amount of money you had, was needed to buy food instead of a Bible, even with your new hunger to want to read the bible? We have hundreds of families that are new Christians that desperately need a Bible. We have a great Christmas gift idea. We have found a resource for good quality Haitian Creole Bibles for just $10 each, these are not the thin evangelistic bibles, but good quality complete bibles. We would also like to suggest giving a healthy young goat. You can buy a Haitian family a goat for $35. Goats can be a positive change for a Haitian family. Please consider the purchase of Bibles or Goats for our Haitian brothers and sisters for Christmas this year.............Mike

We also have some exciting news. Our new website has been completed. Please check it out. It has new information and pictures to keep you up dated with what is happening in Haiti. One of the new features many of you have been asking for, is the ability to pay by credit card, debit card, or electronic checks (automatic bank drafts) and the ability to choose both one time donations or recurring donations. Of course we still have the pay pal option for those who prefer pay pal. The new options are available on our new donation page. There is even a space for special instructions, so you can specify what you would prefer your donation go to, for example orphan sponsorship or the medical clinic. We have had a few friends try it out and they say it is easy and very user friendly. Just go to www.newgenerationhaiti.org and follow the simple instructions. Hope this makes donating easier for each of you. Thank you so very much for coming alongside of this ministry with your involvement, prayers and support. Please have a blessed Holiday Season................Mike

   Wow, Praise His name from on High !!! God is really on the move in Haiti. This is like a piece of history in the making. We are so excited, and amazed, and humbled at the outpouring of the Spirit of God right now in Pass Rien. The first Sunday morning in the new tent we saw 30 salvation's. That very same evening we saw 35 more lost and hurting people come to the revelation that salvation in the name of Jesus Christ was the answer to their problems. We have seen several salvation's and healing every day since then. And this is not just in Pass Rien. In Perou, and Marotte we have seen 5 or 6 salvation's each Sunday for several weeks now. This is so amazing to really see God redeeming his loved ones into His Kingdom. These people will now live for eternity with Him in Glory. "No more pain, no more tears."

This is a direct result of the mercy of God and the consistent prayers of his people. Some of you Prayer Partners have been so diligent and faithful about praying for the Spirit of God to break the chains that have held these people in small villages like Pass Rien for generations. Where which doctors and Voodoo camps have cursed and intimidated and carried out the work of satan to destroy people. Where men, marriages and families have been lost, hurting, blind and in prison to the poverty and oppression of the devil. God is breaking, and smashing and overturning the tables of these evil spirits to set His people free. "To bring sight to the blind, healing, freedom and to declare the favor of the Lord."........Amen

Pastor Nathan and Pastor Bruno are hosting an "all night prayer and worship meeting" at Pass Rien tonight. Please continue to pray for this move of God to rescue the ones He loves in Haiti.

With all these new believers we are incurring a few wonderful problems. We need Bibles. There is only a few Bibles among hundreds of new salvation's, and we need benches for the people to sit on, thus far they can only stand as they gather. If this is something that you feel God would have you help us with, we would appreciate it so very much. Thank you again for your prayers for this ministry.............Mike 

Hello,

A quick update full praise! Thank you so much for your prayers. This morning in Pass Rien, Nathan said there were 30 salvation's!!!! Nathan preached again this evening and there were 35 more salvation's!!!!! God is so good, 65 more people will enter his courts with praise. One of the men that gave their hearts to the Lord today was a witch doctor.  The Spirit of God is definitely moving and drawing hearts in Pass Rien. We can not praise God enough for all He is doing. God is so awesome. Please keep praying for Pass Rein and the Haitian people.

Many Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

I wanted to send out a quick note to ask for prayers in regards to Pass Rien. If you remember in one of the last e-mails, I shared how both Nathan and Mike felt like something broke in the spiritual realm in Pass Rien. I shared how the blind man who was healed offered his house as an indoor place to meet for church. This would have most likely been a hut. Nathan told us today, that the people in the village of Pass Rien have become so excited about God that they couldn't wait until Sunday to go to church. They asked pastor Nathan to come teach them tonight. So he went to Pass Rien to teach and 5 more people gave their hearts to God tonight. He also said that other people came forward and offered their property for church. We have one more large military style tent that we have been waiting to set up. We did not have any property in Pass Rien available to set it up on. The witch doctor had the only available piece of property. So now there are other offers and most likely it will finally be set up. Please join us in praying for the people in Pass Rien, that the Spirit of God will keep moving and more will come to know God. Also please keep praying for the Madame (witch doctor) to soften her heart for God. She has not been in Pass Rien the last few times a team or Mike and Nathan have visited. We do not know if she is gone for just awhile or if God has given her chances and finally removed her from the area.  She has been quite intimidating to the other villagers in the past. Please especially pray this Sunday morning. Ephesians 6:12 says "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Thank you so very much for your prayers.

Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

I talked with Mike today. Both he and Nathan went back up to Pass Rein yesterday. The Madame(witch doctor) usually gets a chair and sits down in the middle of things and stares. She can be intimidating. But she was not there Thursday when the team was there. And she was not there this time. Both Mike and Nathan felt like much of the tension from the past was gone and that a stronghold was broken. The Madame still lives in Pass Rein, but they both felt like God has moved her out of the way, and that something was broke in the spiritual realm. Please keep praying for Pass Rein and for the Madame. Also please pray for the man who's eyes were healed, he has opened his home up for the church to meet in. Yesterday evening there were 2 more salvation's at the crusade, one of the Haitian pastors gave the message.

This morning Mike preached in Poteau. He spoke on repentance, understanding sin and what Jesus did for us. There were 2 salvation's and at the end of the service most of the church was on their knees repenting. God really moved and touched hearts. Thank you for your continued prayers.

Tonight Mike is staying with Nathan and his wife and family. They will go to Port-au-Prince early in the morning, as Mike will be flying out. Please pray for safe travel.

Blessings,

Chris

The November team

Pastors from South Carolina

Hello,

Just a short update. Nathan took the team to Port-au-Prince this morning. He is staying in Arcahaie tonight. Mike had one more meeting with the pastor's association this morning. He said the meeting with the mentor for the older girls went well, the girls seemed to like her. She is going to be meeting with the older girls twice a month to encourage them. Thank you for praying.

Tomorrow Mike will go into Gonaives to work on some things for our move to Haiti, he said he will also try and go to Jubilee. Both Nathan and Mike will go to the crusade in the evening again. Please continue to pray for the Spirit of God to touch many hearts during the crusade. I will post a photo of the team. And I will leave you with a verse from Isaiah.

 It is Isaiah 45:8.
                        "You heavens above, rain down
                          righteousness;

                          let the clouds shower it down.

                          Let the earth open wide,

                          let salvation spring up,

                          let righteousness grow with it;

                          I, the Lord, have created it.

Thanks and Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

I spoke with Mike tonight. The day went well. The team went to the pastor's conference in the morning. Then right after the conference the team went to Pass Rien for their outreach. The weather was sunny and hot, later cooling down with some clouds, no rain, thank you so much for praying. The team prayed and then had worship. Four pastors from the team each shared a message. Then when they asked for those who wanted prayer to come forward all 200 people came forward. Mike said it was hard to know who came forward for salvation, who for healing, or who came forward because everyone else did :) The teams always have an interpreter with them when they are in the villages, so the people understood what to come forward for. At any rate the response was positive, and the team prayed with as many as they could. Afterwards the team served food to all of the people who came. Some of the pastors from the association came to the outreach to see what the team was going to do. They also joined in and helped to serve the people in the village. It made a huge impact. In Haiti there is a system or a type of hierarchy like in some other countries (really there sort of is in our own country). Also in Haiti men do not serve the women and children. So it was huge to model serving the less fortunate, especially with the pastors from the association helping to serve the women and children food. After serving the people, the team went down into the voodoo camp and prayed over the grounds and sang worship songs. One interesting thing I would like to share is about the blind man who's eyes were healed at a crusade about a year ago. Because we still have not been able to get the land the witch doctor owns, there has been talk over where the people can meet for church besides out in the open in the rain or heat. After much deliberation this man who was blind but now can see offered his home for the church to meet in, until a better place could be found. I am sure it is a very small home, all of the homes that I have seen in Pass Rein are very small. It reminds me of the story of the boy and his loaves and fish in John 6:1-13. The story of how the loaves and fish feed 5000 men plus women and children. God multiplied what was offered in love.

This evening pastor Charles gave the message at the crusade and there were 12 salvation's and another 12 that came forward for prayer. Also a severely crippled young man was brought up to the front, he was helped by some men, and his mother also came forward with him. Mike said his limbs were totally uncontrollable, his body was soiled and he had some sort of mental illness. The mother said she had taken him to more than one voodoo doctor and they had taken all of her money but had not helped her son. The mother had found him in the ditch on the side of the road today and said she did not know what to do. Someone shared about the crusade and suggested that she bring him to it. Neither of them were Christians. The team took him to the side and prayed for him for quite a while and the boy started to sit upright and smile. After a while longer he spoke and said "I feel God moving on my insides". Over the course of the evening his limbs kept straightening out. After the worship and preaching were over and the altar call was given, Mike took hold of the boys hand and together with his mother they walked to the front and the boy and his mother renounced voodoo and gave their lives to the Lord. They then found out where the boy and his mother lived and introduced them to the pastor of the church in their area, so that there will be follow up. Praise God! He is soooooooo good and soooooooo merciful.

Tomorrow most of the team will be leaving for Port-au-Prince and flying back home. Please pray for safe traveling for the team and Nathan as he drives them. Mike will stay at the orphanage for four more days. He will be having some meetings tomorrow. One of the meetings is with a mentor for the older girls in the orphanage. She is a successful, educated Haitian women who has a job with World Food, is part of a traveling worship team with her brothers, and is a Godly Christian young women. We would like her to speak into the lives of the girls in our children's village. To let them know that they can hope and dream, go to school and become whatever they want. Please pray for wisdom and discernment as they meet and as she shares with the older girls. Also please pray for Mike that his time will be fruitful. Thank you again for your prayers.

Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

The team had another great day in Haiti. Pastor Sam and Pastor Nathan made it from Port-au-Prince up to the orphanage safely and in time to participate in some of the days events. Thank you for praying for them. The morning started out with the Pastor's conference and the Farmer's conference. Both went well. There were about 40 farmers in the farmer's conference. Pastor Eugene has a PHD and is connected to the University of South Carolina. He has formed a research group of professors to help the Haitian farmers. They are working on grants and ways to help the farmers. Pastor Eugene spent the time sharing, teaching and asking how the Haitian farmers want to be helped. Which lines up with the way we try and do things, Asking, instead of assuming we know. One of the farmers in the group was a very educated man, he is a technician that works with the farmers. He said that the farmers work in small group or co-ops and he said he had relationship with about 10 co-ops. He was excited and said that he would be able to network and get more of the groups involved. So the plan is for Pastor Eugene to come back in the early spring and meet with the co-ops, he also has vision for meeting with the country's prime minister of agriculture. So there were seeds planted today, literally :) it is the start of something and we are excited to see what God will do. The team left for Perou after the conferences, but before they reached the village it started pouring and they were not able to make it up the steep inclines, Pastor Renalds suggested going the long way around, but with the hard rains they could only get as close as 2 miles from the village, so Pastor Renalds took the gifts for some of the children from their sponsors and walked the rest of the way to his home in Perou. The team was disappointed, but it can be very treacherous reaching some of the mountain villages when it rains, as often there are no real roads. Tonight Pastor Benjamin preached during the crusade. There was one salvation and at least 30 came forward for prayer. Mike said it was a good night.

Tomorrow morning they will once again have the Pastor's conference. Then after the conference the team will go up to Pass Rien for an outreach. They will be taking enough food to feed about 200 and then 4 of the pastor's will be giving messages. Please pray that they are not rained out. Pray that the enemy is not able to stop them. Pray for the people they feed and for the messages given. Also please pray for the Madame (the village witch doctor). Pray for her eyes, ears and heart to be opened. Please also pray again for the crusade tomorrow night, I believe Pastor Sam will be preaching. Pray for the Spirit of God to move and for the people to chose to have relationship with God while the door is still open. I know I write thank you for your prayers in a lot of the prayer partner e-mails, but we would like you to know that we really are very appreciative of your prayers, with out them the work God is asking us to do would not happen, your prayers are really important. Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

Today was a good day in Haiti. The pastor's conference went well this morning. Afterwards the team visited our church and school in Poteau. They also did some painting in the orphanage. Mike said that the crusade is going very well also. Tonight a new girl led worship and the Spirit of God was on her and the people were very moved. Pastor Wilmar from South Carolina shared tonight, Mike said he did an awesome job.

One of the pastor's had to fly home for a funeral and will be flying back into Port-au-Prince tomorrow, Nathan will go down and pick him up. Please pray for safe travel for both of them. In the morning there will also be another Pastor's conference and a Farmer's conference going on at the same time. One of the team members from South Carolina is also a professor at the University of South Carolina. He will be teaching the conference for the Farmer's in the area. Afterwards the team will be going up to Perou to visit our church and school. Then again in the evening the team will be going to the crusade. Please pray for continued refreshment, encouragement and vision for the Pastor's conference, and for understanding and vision at the Farmer's conference. And again for God to move during the crusade bringing healing and restoration to the people of Haiti. We really appreciate your prayers

Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

Your prayers were very much appreciated today. Mike met with Doctor Ralph and our two nurses, and because of your support at the mission store this summer, Rose and Steph were able to send some important medical equipment with Mike on this trip. One of which was an ultra sound Doppler, which will allow Dr. Ralph to monitor a baby's heart beat during pregnancy, among other things. Dr. Ralph was thrilled. They also sent glucometers, there is a high rate of diabetes in Haiti. Many thanks to all of you that helped to purchase this equipment.The crusade went really well tonight. There were about 500 people in attendance. The crusade is being held in Poteau, the newest village we work in. They are holding the crusade in a large field by a school. The worship was fantastic and Pastor Rondey from South Carolina preached. Mike said he was really good and afterwards about 30 people came forward for prayer. Thank you so much for praying.

Tomorrow the team will meet with the pastor's association in the morning and then come back to the orphanage and do projects. They will be doing some carpentry and painting. I think the carpentry is shelf building, but I forgot to ask. Then in the early evening they will be going to the crusade again. So please pray for the meeting in the morning, the projects, and then again for the crusade as another pastor from South Carolina will be preaching. Pray that God prepares hearts to hear what he will be sharing and that the Haitian people will be blessed. Remember prayers move mountains :)

Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

Thank you so much for your prayers today. At the church service in Marose this morning several people gave their lives to the Lord. Praise God! This evening the Crusade started. It will last through next Sunday night. About 500 people were at the crusade tonight.They had a great worship time. One of the Haitian pastors gave the main message. Mike was also asked to share. He shared on Noah and about how the people in Noah's area saw the door of the ark open for many years. They assumed that because it had been opened a long time that it would always be open. One day though, God shut it and it was no longer open to the people. It was too late. Mike said he felt like he was supposed to share the story of Noah. And to share that yes the door is open right now, but the door will not always be open, one day it will be shut, and we do not know when it will be closed. It reminded me of a little while ago when Nathan tried to share God with the witch doctor and his wife, who lived in Marose. Nathan spoke to him the day before the witch doctor and his wife were killed. His words to Nathan that day were, "later Pastor Nathan, later". For the witch doctor and his wife there was no later, the door was closed. Sometimes we think that later we will give our heart and lives to God, when it is a convenient time, later we will serve him, after we have all of our ducks in a row, so to speak. But sometimes the days, weeks, and years go by and we still have not fully given over our lives to Him. We have not really sought the purpose God created us for. We have not truly chosen to give our all no matter what the cost. And therefore we have not fully lived. And at some point the door will be closed. I believe that I am supposed to share this tonight for three reasons, one to ask that you pray for the Spirit of God to move in the hearts of the people, the second reason is for those reading this letter that have not given their hearts to God, to encourage you to give your heart to him and seek him while the door is still open. The third reason is to encourage those who have not yet asked God to show them the purpose He created them for. We ALL have been created for a purpose and He will show you, if you ask expecting Him to answer.

Tomorrow in the early part of the day the pastor's association will meet for a conference, please pray again for a refreshing and encouraging time for them. Also please pray for the crusade in the evening and the Haitian pastor's and the South Carolina pastor's as they take turns preaching and sharing at the crusade.

Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

Thank you so much for your prayers. I spoke with Mike tonight. Everyone is doing great. There were a lot of meetings today. The sponsor gifts were passed out to the children, thank you so much for blessing the children, it means so much to them. The older girls planted a garden right before the September team arrived in Haiti, Mike said it is doing very well. He said the corn is taller than he is. Beans will be planted in our field across the river while the team is in Haiti also.

Tomorrow morning Mike will be preaching in the Marose church. Please pray for hearts to be touched by God. The focus this trip is a week long crusade which starts tomorrow evening. All of the pastors coming from South Carolina will be taking turns preaching during the crusade. Please pray that God is present and that many turn their hearts to him.

Thanks & Blessings,

Chris

Hello,

I am writing to let you know the November team is on their way to Haiti. Mike is flying out of the Seattle airport. The rest of the team is a group of pastors coming from South Carolina. Please pray for safe travel and a great trip for all of them. I will try to get a group photo in a few days. Thanks for your prayers.

Blessings,

Chris