HAITI
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.
We have paid for the major piece of land and paid the taxes and fees on it. We are waiting for the funds to buy the attached small piece. Together these two pieces of land will allow us room to house , feed, educate and disciple over five hundred children. A good beginning! Our prayer is to be on this property with the children by next spring. Will you pray and believe God with us?
Our son Joshua, his wife Elisha and their daughter Jaden are settled at the girl's house, where they will reside for a year, or until they move onto the property with the girls. They are immersed in learning the language and the culture and expressing their faith in loving service to the least. We are so blessed to have them there. They need your prayer support for all the challenges of learning and adapting to a new culture and living in a house with almost seventy girls, hoping and working to show the love of Jesus without words at first.
In December we hope to send another couple, and their two small boys, to live in My Father's House Two until they too move onto the property with the boys, then to continue serving there for a year. Such a life changing experience.
Haiti is not recovering quickly. There are vast encampments of people who have no place but tents and tarps to live. There are over a million people living in the tents and suffering extremely high crime rates, violence, rape and food insecurity. There are tens of thousands of children in the streets doing whatever they can to eat and suffering the same crime and violence as the encampments. We hope to begin planting churches in three of these semi permanent neighborhoods. Please pray for Pastor Predestin and his pastors as they preach and organize the churches. They have quite a vision.
The government of Haiti is doing little if anything to relieve the suffering of it displaced populous. The encampments look to become permanent neighborhoods, have no services and are mostly constructed on marginal land subject to flooding.
INDIA
A short while ago our staff was notified of a new born girl whose mother had died in giving birth and who was being exposed to death. He father was ill and, since her mother died, she was considered of no value and an object of 'bad luck' to her village. We rushed to this remote village and took the child with the village elder's consent. She was in very bad shape and died shortly after being taken to hospital. Our staff was devastated and we grieved for her.
Kantharao and his team felt that although the rescue attempt proved a failure, as far as the little life was concerned, perhaps God would turn it to the good. The love shown by our team was amazing to the people of the village. They had never seen such a thing and did not understand the origens of our love for someone we did not know and had no family connection with. Jesus alone could produce such love and He they do not know. Our staff feels that this amazement will give them opportunity to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His love in the future. We now have an 'in' to this remote and superstition bound village. What a cost!
We are preparing to send our children back to school and so uniforms, tuition, school supplies and shoes are immediately needful. We have need of a new pump motor and rent. We are finishing up the renovations on our new property and are taking in children there. We have way over a hundred children in our care now, in two facilities, and the Lord has enabled us to establish well over a hundred churches in Hindu predominant villages that had never heard the Gospel before our preachers came.
Our pastors and their families are subject regular persecution, sometimes violent, and endure because of God's love for these people. Please pray for Kantharao, Mini, their daughters, the My Father's House 1& 2 staff, our Pastors and their families and the congregations of our churches. Please pray for India and her children.
Sharon and I hope to return to India this November and need your prayers in this endeavor. Thank you.
PAULA MWASUMAILI: MY FATHER'S HOUSE KENYA
Paula continues to endure and labor for Christ in the midst of a predominantly Muslim community. She is persecuted because she's a woman, a Christian, an American and white. The local populous and the government are convinced that, since she's an American, she must be rich. Nothing she can do seems to be able tochange their collective minds and so she is subjected to different standards than the peoiple she lives among and serves. The government has made her build a house and clinic that only someone who is 'rich' could build. They have made her send her children away (she has twenty-six orphan children that she has adopted) until she completes the construction. By the mercies of the Lord we have been able to help her get a house mostly built. She has seen most of her children, from time to time, but is grieved for them and their apparent deterioration while separated from her care.
The house, clinic and kitchen require about six-thousand more dollars to bring to completion, at government standards, and then she gets her children back. Paula's clinic had over eighty patients one day last week, and she with only two helpers! She performs her wonderful work on a shoestring financially and from an abundance of Jesus given love. This project needs to be completed as quickly as possible. Paula's Heavenly Father is rich beyond measure and we anticipate His coming to her aid. Would you pray for the completion of her house, clinic and kitchen. Also pray for some long term helpers for her.
MONROVIA, LIBERIA
(MY FATHER'S HOUSE, DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING CENTER, PRECIOUS LIFE HOME, GRACE HOME, KOFFA HOUSE)
We have over a hundred and twenty five teen boys and girls orphans and forty seven babies living in our homes in Monrovia. These young people. Were put out of orphanages because they were no longer internationally adoptable and so no longer a source of possible income to the orphanages. Many of the girls, with no skills, little education and no work available quickly become pregnant and need shelter. All these kids need food, shelter, education and discipline. We have been in this aspect of orphan work for some time and in association with Karen Barkman and Provision of Hope have been able to care for a number of young men. This year we have five college graduates and we are blessed. All of our young men are in college, trade or high school. They are growing in Christ, conducting ministry and are a hope for the future of Liberia.
All the girls in our homes have to be in school. If they are moms we work out educational programs tailored to their needs. They too are growing in Christ, members and participants in Church fellowships and becoming productive young people in Christ working to build a stable and safe Liberia for their children.
Recently we faced the prospect of being evicted from the Precious Life Home if we did not pay a years rent. We didn't have the money, $2500, and had no prospects except prayer. Rev. Emmanuel Jones and his wife Ramona (who oversee two of the girl's houses) were excessively burdened. The prospect of forty five girls and many babies being put into the mean streets of Monrovia was too much bear. Our hearts were going out to them but we had nothing physically to help them. 'But God' did a wonderful deliverance here in the States, through a couple we met briefly and did not know prior, and the rent was paid on time and to His Glory. Praise God! We have need now for school fees, supplies and shoes. Milk for the babies and, of course, rent for My Father's House. (One of the boys houses.)
ELSEWHERE in Liberia, Elder Edaves Zoku continues his productive ministry with and to about fifty children at the Children's Rescue Home in Ganta. They are starting school and have needs for supplies, shoes and uniforms. Please pray for this most needful work and the little church that stands with these children.
Please remember the following works and workers. We will describe their ministries in more detail in a future newsletter.
JOSUE AND RACHEL AHUITE: IQUITOS, PERU
Rachel and Josue are expecting their first child and Rachel is just past the hard morning sickness stage. They need your prayers as they continue to develop their ministry to street kids and labor in river village evangelism.
LARRY AND LINDA JARBAH: BUDUBURAM CAMP,GHANA
Please remember this dear couple and their children as they continue to pastor a church and live in a refugee camp and oversee other churches to refugee communities, childrens and widows ministries. The are ably supported by Pastors Pea and Jellu and their families.
KIM SMITH: ZWEDRU, LIBERIA
Please remember our dear brother as he lives and labors in the 'bush' of Liberia. He and his team of former fighters are planting churches in villages and preach in prisons. They suffer the diseases and problems of this hard and broken land.
PATRICK KIMAWACHI: KITALE, KENYA AND KIBARI SLUM, NAIROBI,KENYA
Pastor Kimawachi and his family labor to care for orphans in both a country orphan home and in' the worst slum in the world.
