Wordsower Intl.

By the mercies of the Lord we have completed our first 'Orientation For Service' . We had five participants for the August 3 through 12 training and I was thoroughly blessed. Each candidate participated with eagerness and earnestness and we grew together in the service of our Servant King Jesus and His example. From the first day we all used buckets for showers and ate a bit different than normal. Sharon and I tried to impart a 'little' of what life is like in a third world setting. (But we did let them use hot water, a rarity in  Africa, Haiti and India.) We explored what it would mean to represent Wordsower International as servants to the least. We walked in the Scriptures and examined our Statements of Faith and Purpose in relation to the Word. Together we went through Jesus' preparation of His Disciples for lives of service in the Gospel of John and other Scriptures. We discussed the Wordsower Discipline and what it could mean to fully walk out the 'chosen fast' of Isaiah 58. We prayed together and celebrated the Lord's table. Each was subjected to a most fearfully anticipated closing interview. During the second week of the Orientation the Lord provided four dear brothers from the local ministry and missionary community to address us and to share their vast, wonderful and varied experience with us.

He sustains and empowers and enables even as He gives opportunity to serve. Though our strength is small, and we unworthy, yet He has given us a door of service to His Church which has remained open for over thirty-five years. Praise His Name!

There is so much to report and yet the day to day care of the children is the most wonderful thing! God continues to provide, every day, the food and roof for over two hundred children in our care. My Father's House Two has over a hundred boys age five and up. My Father's House Three has over sixty-five girls, infant to fourteen. My Father's House Four has forty small boys and we receive new children almost daily. God is so faithful. To replace the quake damaged school we have converted My Father's House One into a school facility. We are in intense search for another house for the girls. (I think we've found one but need some money to rent and outfit it) We also need another house for boys and a 'school house' for girls. Since our vehicle was stolen we cannot transport our children so school and church has to happen close to the Houses. Please pray for these needs.

I have been back in Haiti twice more, returning this last time April sixteenth. The Lord has seen fit to build the ministry there in a most awesome way. While there early in March, with a team from Iowa and Washington State, the Lord enabled us to open a third House (My Father's House Haiti III) and to place all of our girls therein. We put forty-six beds in it, a new range, refrigerator, tables, chairs, mattresses, beanie babies etc. and forty girls & matrons. It's a beautiful house and only one story so that they'll sleep in it. (Most Haitians do not want to sleep inside and really do not want to sleep in anything two story.) Our team also finished a roof section at My Father's House Haiti I and preliminary work on our guest house, which will also become the residence for Predestin and his family. Table games were built for the children, some preaching was done and a good fruitful experience was had by the five fine brothers who came down. We are grateful that they came.

Praise God for His faithful love for the orphan. We have searched for some time for another facility to rent and fill with children. Until recently to no avail. But God has directed us to another 'house' in another district of Andhra Pradesh State. It was used as an orphan home until the woman who ran it died. Her sons did not want to continue the orphan work and drove the hundred children who resided there away and put the property up for sale. One of our pastors in the area heard about it and told our national director. The Lord enabled us to purchase the land and the three buildings there on and, because of God's faithfulness to His children, we are searching for the children who formerly resided there, to bring them home. We will also put another hundred children in the facility as the Lord brings them in. We will turn none away. Praise God for His faithfulness!

Ruthfina Johnson, an orphan girl put out of an orphanage because turned sixteen and was no longer internationally adoptable, is a resident of Precious Life Home of Hope (a Wordsower sponsored home for orphan teen-age girls) in Monrovia Liberia. Three months ago she gave birth to Gabriel, a bright eyed little boy born into a sad and troubled land. In the sadness and heartache that is life in Liberia Gabriel died Wednesday April 22nd. Oh that she would know the comfort and consolation of her heavenly Father.

An opportunity for men and women to serve the Lord Jesus through service to orphans in Africa, India and Haiti.

Oh my! I just realized how long it has been since I last communicated with you. Please accept my apologies.

The Lord has heard our prayers and has directed us to a property suitable for the expansion of My Father's House India. This property is over two acres in size and has three buildings, two of which are immediately useable for housing children. The other building needs plaster and paint.This facility was used as an orphanage until the woman proprieter died suddenly. Her son, who is not a believer, sent the children away and stated that he wanted to sell the property. We have undertaken to buy the property, retrieve the orphans who lived there and fill the houses with new orphan children. We should be able to house over two hundred of the Father's children therein. Praise God!

My Father's House is two houses (soon to be four) full of orphan and abandoned children. Some of our children have lost both parents. Some have lost one parent and the remaining parent couldn't care for them, and so the parent just walks away leaving the child to fend for itself. Some were found abandoned & brought to us. Some were deposited at our door. We will turn none away. One little girl was brought to us by her mother. The mother said she had two children, one had died of malnutrition and she didn't want this one to die as well. "Would we take her?"Of course we took the little one. We have received starving, dirty, uneducated orphans from 'failed' orphanages. God has provided a place for them with us.