Haiti

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News St Marc Haiti
These are some mission massionaries in Haiti who run an oprphanage and their good news from Haiti


Greetings from St. Marc, Haiti!

It was a beautiful morning for such a prayer meeting,
hard to believe that we have come so far. Truly this
must be God! These are the thoughts that past through
my mind as I walked up the front steps of the
Presidential Palace in Port-Au-Prince.

After all that has happened and the many tears and
sweat from the years past, there I was walking up
those grand steps to the very seat of authority in the
nation. This nation called Haiti that God had called
me too through Youth With A Mission. As I followed
Pastor Chavannes Jeune, leading pastor of a new
national movement of God in unity amongst the
Christians, with Pierre Richard (fellow YWAMer) by my
side, I took note of a newly built massive tower
representing former President Aristide's commitment to
serve and sacrifice to the gods of voodou.

As we entered the screen and special security we were
lead to a beautiful large white room trimmed in gold
and red carpet. The sound system was all in place,
thanks to the Palace services. Special security was
monitoring the room as well. We were guarded to pray I
guess.

The prayer meeting began. Pastor Chavannes with his
leading Pastors opened the time. It was a good prayer
time and I sense God's presence with us even though
there was a strong spiritual sense that we were
clearly causing much anger from the former spiritual
strongman associated with voodou.

Mid way into the time came the newly establish
President. He made sure to come and shake all our
hands, not missing one person. As he concluded he
thanked everyone for coming to pray. Pastor Chavannes
with other leaders presented him with a Bible as a
token gift, asking him to please make sure he reads it
everyday. He responded; "Oh, I do read it every
morning, but not just read, I pray too! You do know I
am a Christian."

God has given us every advantage now in Haiti. We, the
Christian leaders now must lead the people in prayers
of humility and repentance to see the full glory of
God released. Please continue to pray for us! I
personally enjoyed taking the opportunity in that
glorious room, with security watching, slipping off my
chair and onto my knees, bowing down with my face to
the ground and my tears touching the floor, before my
GOD! He is the ultimate authority and I gave Him his
rightful place in the Palace.

I must head for the Dominican Republic today. There we
will be attending and sharing in our Youth With A
Mission Caribbean conference. Ingvild and I, along
with the kids are looking forward to this time for
refreshment and healing from the many battles we have
spiritually fought. We would appreciate your prayers
during this time.

We have taken the High Places, now we must disciple
the nation!

Terry (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/images/misc/quotes/quot-bot-left.gif)
:yay:

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{update}

(an update from Haiti)



Hello everyone and thank you for your prayers! Our meeting went well. The three representing
Mayors were quick to share their need for assistance
and also their appreciation to our mission for assistance
offered so far When I was given a chance to respond I
explained that we needed God and I invited them to join me
in a prayer. They bowed their heads as I lead us in a prayer.
Afterward I began by explaining I am nothing it is God that is at work
and He needs to receive the recognition. As our two hour meeting went on we discussed meaning things and found
that a key root problem was broken trust which has created
man conflicts in relationships. Once identifying the problem we began to
form solutions. How can the current Government regain the trust of the
people? We discussed the role of government in serving the people by
creating an environment of security, consistence and character. This I
explained would mean that the church of St. Marc would need to play an
active role as the only ones that have the keys to developing character
through Biblical teaching. Over the past four years we have been working through the Pastors
Network to restore the character of the church. Through varies projects
and events we have brought a measure of restoration.
Enough to now say the church needs to be able to speak into the city
and challenge them in character issues. After positioning the church in their role of promoting character and
good works I was then able to suggest that the mayors organize a city
council that we could then disciple the whole city through. They whole
heartily agreed and within two weeks we hope to have a city council to
help in the functioning and promotion of the infrastructure of the city.
The city council will be formed based on a teaching within our
organization in regards to seven areas within a society that effects
and can alter the process of thinking and reasoning within that culture.
Basically this could enable the church to begin Discipling the whole city
at one time in Christian values and principals. God has called us to make
disciples of all nations so we are getting there! We also recognized that even though the Prime Minister had appointed
these men in the position of Mayor, they still needed the blessing of
the church, the spiritual influencers of the city. So June 10, which
is a holiday in Haiti (God's Day) we will be organizing a city meeting
and the Christian Leaders will be publicly praying over the Mayors asking
God to anoint them in their appointed roles. There were also many other things that were revealed showing the works
of satan in our city today. I am not at liberty to share them at this
time due to the sensitive nature so I can only ask that you keep praying.
St. Marc is in the process of changing, transforming, but has
not arrived. From the reports I am hearing we are doing better than many
cities though. Also, today I received an appeal from a Pastor in Petit-Goave asking if
we would be able to come and assist them in seeing the same kind of
things come about in their city. I have also heard that God has been
moving in Laogone through New Missions efforts there. Gonaives is still
moving and seek change as well. Let's not pray for only a city
transformation, but a national transformation. St. Marc Pastor will be
leading the next prayer meeting on Thursday inside the Presidential Palace! Please pray for Pastor Evenson, Pastor
Boise, and Pastor Marcel as they are some of the key
Pastors who will be organizing and leading this time. We have taken the high places, now we must disciple the nation! Terry W. Snow National Director