Hello,
Live wrecked! The words in front of me on a hunk of embossed
aluminum. The same words from one of my favorite books. Words that sound great
in theory, but living them? …… I love living here in Haiti. But it is sooo hard
at times. The last two days I don’t think I could describe any other way, but
to say I am living wrecked. We have had victories and incredible spiritual
attack. I have experienced anger over injustices, and frustrations over the
unbelief of most of the people in Haiti that it cannot be different. I have been emotionally exhausted and
physically exhausted. Is living wrecked such a great idea? In reality I know it
is where I am supposed to be, and with that in mind I wouldn’t be anywhere
else.
I will start with sharing a huge victory with you. We have
been visiting our villages and talking about leadership and also evangelism. We
had a day of evangelizing in Pass Rein day before yesterday. It started at 7:30
in the morning and went until about 1:00 in the afternoon. I shared with the
group one of my favorite sayings, “God does not call the equipped, He equips
the called.” Mike shared that if you knew you had the medicine to save someone
who was sick, you would give it to them, even if they did not believe you. Also
if you knew someone was floating down the river into danger you would try to warn
them about the danger ahead, even if they did not believe it was coming. Mike,
Nathan and I shared other things also, then they started going door to door in
their community. 45 people received salvation that day, 45! God is incredibly
amazing. Nathan was even able to share with the Madame or the witch doctor who
is frustrated that she has lost her power over Pass Rein. She did not accept
Christ, but she did sit and listen as Nathan shared the gospel with her once
again. Please keep praying for her. It has been a long time since she has been
even willing to listen to Nathan or Mike.
We only have 2 new cases of the mumps this round. One of
them is my daughter Janae. There is a 2 to 3 week incubation period so I still
do not know if we are finished with them. We have had 20 children come down with
the mumps so far. Please keep praying for the ones with the mumps and that we
have no more cases.
We have two new girls. Which is both good and bad at the
same time? Bad because more children need help and good because a lot of times
girls are not sent to orphanages, they are kept as slaves for both domestic and
sexual purposes. Please pray for their adjustment into the orphanage. When
gathering clothes and shoes etc. for them I realized that we need more shorts,
and skirts for girls size 6 to 10. If anyone of you have any used ones in good
shape that you would like to donate that would be great.
There is a lot more to write but this is getting long, so I
will try and write again tomorrow. Thank you for listening to me share my
heart. Thank you for your prayers also, we depend on them.
Blessings,
Chris
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