We prayed with the woman in the picture below about her sister who is in the hospital right now and she is taking care of her children while she is away.
We immediately noticed this woman's injured thumb. It was oozing with infection, but she didn't know exactly what had caused it. 
When we stopped to pray with this family, we noticed that the baby had a shell necklace around her neck. We asked the mother what the shell necklace was for and she told us that it was supposed to cure the baby's chronic cough. We explained that there was no power in the necklace; there are thousands of shells like that at the beach. The real power is in Jesus Christ and objects like that mean nothing. She sat there for a moment then immediately took the necklace off the baby and we asked her to pray and ask God to take care of the baby's ailment. She had a smile on her face seemingly understanding that God is our only hope.
An older boy (about 12 or 13) named Daniel has really been special to many visitors of Lifeline. He has a special gift of helping us across water, up and down hills, and showing us the way to different villages. His mother comes to church regularly, but Daniel and his father do not. We visited his family and their main concern was their little mud and stick hut. The torrential rains from the hurricane have caused it to severely lean. They have tried to prop it up with long sticks to keep it from collapsing. We asked them to join hands as a family to pray for this need. After praying, we asked them to come to church and they said they would.
This morning Daniel, his mother, and his father were all in church. Hallelujah! Many other people that we have invited were in church today as well. The church is growing by our visits and God is working through us - to God be the glory! We have been so encouraged because when the people tell us they will come, they keep their word. How amazing!
Sister Pat preached a good message for the church this morning on unity and contentment.
Mesleice, the man Adam gave his best shoes to, was in church again today and we are praising God for this honest heart. He sits on the edge of his seat, leaning toward the speaker to take in every word. You can tell this is all new to him because he carefully watches others to know what to do. But today when Sister Pat was preaching, he threw both hands in the air waving and praising God.
There were about 60 children in Kids' Club today (our children's church/Sunday school). They sang hymns in English and in Creole, had a Bible lesson, and came outside for a snack and activity. Sister Pat and Ilane baked homemade cookies for them today. They also took beach balls and played games with them to demonstrate unity and working and playing together.
The kids absolutely loved it! You could hear their joy and laughter as they played.
A small wall and ditch were built (out of concrete and large rocks) from the new wall that went across the driveway to the other side of the property. 
They were very meticulous in measuring and leveling everything out so it would look good and serve its purpose.
They even went back and put some landscaping around it - it looks so good!
The little that we can do doesn't seem to be enough on this exceptional day. After a day like today, we definately appreciate everything we have and realize what is really important. Sometimes in our reaching out to people in their desperate needs, we go away receiving even more in return from them. The love and joy they bring to our hearts will never leave us. I believe after reading this you may want to take a part somehow to help us do more. Please listen as the Spirit of the Lord pulls on your heart. You will never regret giving to these precious people.
Some men worked on getting our wall fixed today. There was a huge crack along the wall that continued to get worse and it was causing the gate to not match up correctly. They knocked the wall down yesterday and began laying the blocks to build it back today. 
A few of us walked up to the cross in the mist this morning to see if we could see the storm coming in. 
While we were up there we had prayer about the storm and for all the other big things going on at the mission… by the way, please pray that the Kids Against Hunger food will get out of customs soon so we can give it to these dear children who are in such desperate need for it… Adam and Bro. Donald have an appointment in the morning in Port-Au-Prince to meet with the people responsible for getting it sent to Lifeline.
There were a few men who came to try out the equipment and show their working skills to acquire one of the new job positions. They made 150 blocks in 2 or 3 hours. We are all excited that these blocks can be used to build a new warehouse and the new school building at 
Donald Sr. suggested that we also go see some who do not go to our church. Between visiting at houses Pat saw a little boy who was very sick and she asked where his parents were so she could tell them to bring him to the clinic. His dad, Wilson, showed up and after telling him about the clinic, we began to talk to him about the Lord. When we asked his permission to pray for him, he said he did not believe in Jesus. He said he was not ready to accept Jesus at that time but wanted to talk with us later about it.
As we were leaving that house we noticed that Wilson was still following us. Pastor Rony told us that we could wait and talk to Wilson tomorrow, but we said it was no bother because we felt like we needed to talk with him while the waters were troubled. Wilson came with us back to the mission so we sat down with him and explained the simple plan of salvation that still has power today. 
He told us that he wanted nothing more to do with voodoo because he was ready to serve the Lord with his whole heart. All that he had given to practicing voodoo he was now ready to give to Jesus. He accepted the Lord and became our new brother in Christ. There was a tremendous transformation right before our eyes in his spirit and even facial expressions. 
To demonstrate his sincerity, he gathered all his voodoo items in a sack and gave them to Pastor Rony to destroy.
We went away praising God. I would have never dreamed to see so many people saved in the short time we have been in Haiti. How humbling that God used us as instruments to convert souls into His Kingdom. Praise the Lord for all that He has done and allowed us to be part of. We would love for you to take the opportunity to come and experience for yourself even a taste of the joy we have felt. The Holy Spirit is moving here and we are so excited. He is truly an awesome God who still works in the lives of people today.
The team from Minnesota finished up some projects around here like welding the ladder for the big truck. It is hard to get up in for some people so this ladder will make access much easier. They also found the problem with the leaking sink and repaired it… now we just have to repair the hole in the concrete wall. They left for the airport yesterday morning. Each of them was so sweet and we will miss them! 
I had to get the house ready quickly Wednesday morning for new people. There is normally a Lifeline employee that helps with the task of getting ready for teams, but she was sick and couldn’t come to work. We spent all afternoon in Port with Peter running errands and buying groceries for this week. We picked up Donald Curtis, the president and CEO of Lifeline, and his parents and aunt at the airport after 8:00 last night. We are so glad to have the company; I know we will have a good time and get a lot accomplished with them here.
Robenson (our translator) and the six of us walked to Barbancourt today to visit as they were feeding. Bro. Donald talked to the director of the feeding program about the new school that Lifeline is starting at Barbancourt. There are already 106 children signed up to attend the four classes that will start this year. Donald Sr. showed the children some magic tricks that they really enjoyed. It was great to hear them laugh out when he surprised them with the trick. We hugged and loved on the kids before we left to come back to the mission. 
Many of the guys worked on projects around the team rooms such as the leaking sinks and replacing ceiling titles. 
This morning some of them have been in the attic and on the roof patching leaks. 
They read a Bible story and shared a craft with the children 
The edge of tropical storm Fay has been a blessing to us here at Lifeline today. We woke up this morning to a light rain and the constant cloud cover has kept the temperature from getting very high at all; today is the coolest day we have had in a long time! It was cool enough to turn on our oven and make the team homemade pizza for lunch.
They got up this morning and got to work. Three of the men, Scott, Rich, and Chad held a special pastor’s training that will continue tomorrow and Saturday. When I saw them, the pastors were asking the Americans questions about the Trinity and other topics.
Corey and Michael began working on getting our new sun oven in operation. 
Most of them went to the orphanage at Bersy right before lunch to tour and give a few love bundles. 
We all breathed a sigh of relief when it was gently lowered to the ground. They clapped and cheered that it was a successful endeavor and now the new oven can be used.
We noticed that people from all three of the houses we visited with Pastor Rony were in church today. (Even the woman that thought she didn’t have clothes that were good enough!) It is exciting to see how just one visit to a family encouraged them to start coming back to church. We thank the Lord for helping these people and bringing them to the house of God so they could be ministered to by us and the entire loving congregation.
Pastor Rony’s wife is doing much better. She has less pain from her surgery and even sang a song in church this morning.
Other Random Updates:
With all the activities Friday morning, we waited to visit people until the afternoon. A lady from the church joined us as we went to a few houses to pray for people. 
Pastor Rony took some soap and Adam and I took a few hair barrettes and balloons which we gave to the children as we were leaving their houses. We also had a couple of Bible verses: Psalm 62:2 “He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense, I shall not be greatly moved” and Psalm 103:11 “For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.” Pastor Rony liked these verses and preached a short message about them at the houses where we gave them out. We had a good time in the Lord and enjoyed meeting a few new people. As you can see, the children are precious and photogenic! They are sweet and innocent in their suffering which makes them even easier to love. 
Saturday night and last night were hard for us because from about 11:00 to 11:15 we had to listen to constant chanting that I couldn’t explain even if you could hear my voice right now. The most fitting word that comes to my mind is eerie. They were such unnatural sounds that I questioned if they were even coming from people. We decided they were in fact human because of the consistent rhythm. We couldn’t stay in bed and listen to the disturbing sounds so we prayed against that spirit then talked to try to drown the noises out. Although we did not enjoy that experience, I guess it is a good reminder of the spiritual battle that we all face. Sometimes we get into a routine that we forget that Satan is not going to sit back and let us have a free ride. Satan doesn’t like it when God is winning souls…because that means he is losing them. Where there is divine intervention, there will be satanic opposition. We have to never be content, never let down, never forget that we are soldiers for the Lord. The battle lines are clearly drawn, but do we see them? 
Pastor Rony had the people in mind that he wanted to go see so we followed him first to a single mother and daughter. We all three prayed for God to bless this family gave them the verse in Phil. 4:13 and a little treat of chocolate no-bake cookies. Pastor Rony translated what we said and explained that we loved them and God loved them. Pastor Rony did not know we were going to give the verses or the cookies until then and he had almost a child-like excitement as we walked to the next house. He said “This is good…I love this…I know God loves this…”
