Highlights from the past 2 months

The Lord has been doing so many things here in Kona in the past 2 months. I got here January 8th and it has been non stop excitement ever since. Sometimes its hard to sleep because there is so many exciting things going on, sometimes is so easy to sleep because I'm so tired.
So here a few quick highlights from the past 2 months, and then a short video with some of the best prayer room moments, along with a healing testimony. Thank you all so much for your prayers and support, my time here has been phenomenal!

• Getting to run with about 10 other wild eyed lovers of Jesus and pray and worship together almost everyday
• Seeing the students in the schools flourish and lead out in bible studies, prayer meetings and outreach
• Seeing over 45 people choose to follow Jesus in a 3 week period in the streets of downtown Kona. That's a lot, way more than the past!
• Seeing God touch and heal people physically, making short legs longer to free people of back pain, healing the emotional wounds of the past. God also healed someone of Carpal Tunnel, which you can see in the video
• Being able to grow in the skills of worship leading and teaching, and serving on the base 

The book that tranforms the nations

I just finished an amazing book that was talking about the bible called The book that transforms the nations. Written by Loren Cunningham, the book describes the tangible modern day evidence of what God said: “if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14, ESV). It contains many stories about how God would stir in a few key people that would study The Bible and preach it to others, and then the whole society around them would be transformed.

One of the amazing stories is about a little island in the pacific. The story starts with nine sailors that took over the HMS Bounty, a British ship, and settled on the Island of Pitcairn with a few other Polynesians they had abducted. They burned their ship to evade detection by the British, who were seeking to give them justice at the end of a hangman's noose. After starting out relatively well, they soon descended into a hell of their making. One of the men discovered how to make liquor, and soon had everyone drunk. Then there was lots of fighting, death and disease. Finally there was just one man alive from the original sailors, who became known as John Adams.

Then, in an act of sovereign intervention, Adams found a Bible in the chest of one of his shipmates. He started to study the book, and it wasn't long until he decided to follow Jesus. He then taught the word to the entire island, and everything changed. Later two British captains came to Pitcairn and said the culture on the Island was like a Golden Age. Since Adams had begun teaching them from the Bible, no young woman had been seduced. Theft was unknown. They lived in order and peace. That totally shows the power of God's word to change an island!

In the book you can also read many more stories, such as what happened in South Korea, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and others, when people decided to obey God's word. Therefore I highly recommend the book title The Book That Transforms Nations by Loren Cunningham. Check out this link if you're interested in getting a copy of your own: The Book That Transforms Nations.

This is another reason why I'm so blessed and excited to be able to spend 9 months straight reading God's word in a very intense way, because I will be more equipped for what the Lord has in the future. Just to give you more of a taste of what I'm going to in about a month, here is a video made from the SBS program in Kona:

Don't forget Haiti!

About 2 years after the devastating earthquake that killed 250,000+ beautiful Haitians, there is much joy to be had about this nation, as well as much sorrow and anguish.

Even now many people still live in tent cities, devastated by extreme poverty, resulting in suicides, rape and much more evil as the enemy preys on the weak and broken.

At the same, the Lord God Almighty has done powerful things over the past 2 years, including causing President Preval, who was in office in 2010, to call for 3 days of prayer and fasting to Yahweh, aka Jesus Christ, our beautiful savior and God of the bible! This certainly is an incredible time for the nation, as the 200 year commitment of Haiti to Satan has ended in 2004, and it is very clear the Lord is on the move!

When I was there this past year I experience tremendous open hearts to Jesus, as I met the hungriest people ever. It truly is an incredible opportunity to partner with God as he transforms that nation.

May the Lord stir your heart to continue pouring yourself out for this beautiful nation as you watch this film. If you wish to respond by supporting a Haitian called to go to a School of Biblical Studies in Taiwan the same time as me, click here: Robert going to SBS.
Also, please send up fiery prayers for Robert as he currently needs:
1. Transit visa through America
2. Favor for visa to Taiwan
3. Supernatural provision of about $11,000 for tuition, airplane tickets and food

Since DTS and a little of the future!

After the DTS ended on November 14th, I flew to visit some of my dad's family in Florida for Thanksgiving. It was a great time to look back at all the Lord had done and be very thankful. I have so much to be thankful for! Thank God for awesome family, 3 meals a day, being able to go to the sink and drink the water... the list goes on and on and I'm sure yours does too.
One of the highlights for me was getting to spend time with my dad's mom, who is 86 and has many memories of working in Haiti. She spent about 25 years working with CrossWorld, a missions organization in Haiti. She now lives in a retirement community with many other missionaries who went to Haiti as well. During my stay I was able to hear many stories of the testimonies of those that have gone before me, which was very encouraging. I was also able to connect with my dad, as we enjoyed the tasty tangerines, warm weather and beautiful beaches of Florida.

After staying in Florida until Thanksgiving Day, I flew to Los Angeles to a global missions congress named Call2All that had about 500 leaders of international missions organizations coming together to pray, partner and strategize to finish the great commission better and take the gospel of the kingdom to the whole earth. I had the incredible privilege of being a volunteer and at the same being apart of all of the teaching times as an usher.

There was lots of worshiping together, preaching and teaching, and round table discussions about how to better do what God called us to do.

Before the congress was over, everyone was challenged to ask God what kind of commitments He wanted them to make with His help and His grace. This list is what leaders have committed to do by the year 2021. And here is list: 70,301 new consistent prayer meetings or House of Prayer, 1,807 Unreached and Unengaged People Groups reached, 46,448 new teams committed to take the bible to new locations through oral teaching and story telling, 217,789 new churches planted, 584,345,463 new exposures to the gospel, and $36,524,466 donated to factors involved in fulfilling the great commission.

 The last day of the congress was committed to 8 hours of prayer and worship, as we prayed for the ending of abortion and revival in the nations among other things. It was awesome!

Here we are praying on a giant map of the world

So for now I'm spending time with my family in Sisters, Oregon. I would be happy to figure out a time to spend time with anyone that is interested in hearing about all the God has done in Haiti, or just to hang out! On January 8th, I will be flying to Kona Hawaii, and I will start staffing again, committing 20 hours a week to Student Services, and the rest of my time to staffing the prayer room, which consists of leading corporate prayer and worship, as well as discipling others in the life calling we all have of loving God with all of our hearts! From Kona I plan on going to a School of Biblical Studies in Taiwan, which starts March 23rd.
Please partner with in prayer for the following areas:
1. Deeper revelation of God to my family, my town Sisters Oregon, and to America
2. All the funds needed for my 3 months of staffing in Kona (at least $5,000), and at least $10,000 for SBS in Taiwan
3. My Haitian friend Robert is also going to the school in Taiwan, and will be needing at least $11,000 for everything he needs.
4. A deep refreshing restoration in my life after a good long year of ministry that would cause me to pursue God and love people even more next year.

Thank you!

DTS is over, God is so faithful!

Worship from our room in Port-au-Prince

Thank God for an amazing DTS!

Starting June 11th and ending November 11th, We have seen so many testimonies of God's faithfulness!

Here are some of my favorite photos and favorite testimonies:

-Over $100,000 raised throughout the DTS for the cost of lecture and outreach phases for needy students.

Working at Mission Riscate in Port-au-Prince

-Visas through America are difficult to obtain for a Haitian, but God gave us all we need to get to our outreach team through America to Benin

Worship at Mission Riscate in Port-au-Prince

-7 Outreach teams from Haiti going to other parts of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Benin in Africa, Brazil

Haiti is beautiful!

-We didn't know where the water for our house was coming from, we didn't have a well, but God provided by sending lots of rain, helping us concern water and providing through our neighbors

- 1 church getting planted during lecture phase, along with 30 people saying with their mouths they wanted to follow Jesus

- about 20 physical miraculous healings during the lecture phase

- 9 water tanks that can constantly supply water to about 100 people for a person's lifetime

At Morri working with an orphanage

-Many foreigners finished the school speaking Creole well enough to translate between English and Creole

-A staff member is now on his way to China with a School of Worship for outreach

Praying over Port-au-Prince

-We are seeing Haitians awakened to Jesus with hope for the future, many of them continuing in YWAM to staff or study

-An outreach team and their work in Brazil was filmed and put on national news because of Haitians being a blessing to that nation.

Prayer and worship in our prayer room

-80 people staying in one house, 5 bathrooms, 1 gallon of water to shower a day, and still having incredible relationships that will be remembered a lifetime.

-And so many more lives transformed, so many more little things that we'll only hear about in heaven.

Words can barely do justice to all that God did in us and through us during the DTS. Enjoy some pictures and a video about our outreach.

Thanks again for all of your amazing prayer and financial support to partner with me in establishing God's glory to the earth!

First three weeks of outreach

Bonjour tout moun! Hello Everyone!

Thank you all so much for all your prayers! I feel much better know health wise and am able to function 100% by the grace of God! I have some very good news, because of all of your prayers and support our outreach team of 10 people were able to build two water tanks in the first 3 weeks of outreach. These tanks are able to provide 100 people with continuous water for a life time, which is a huge blessing to many people. So thanks again for all of your help and support!

We were very encouraged because the leader of the church said that even though we weren't working directly with the people, they could still see something was different about us. God was able to show himself simply through the way we worked!

Here we are building our first tank for the local church:

A huge encouragement and answer to prayer is that we now have a Haitian man joining us for the rest of outreach named Chenet! Now we have so much more spiritual authority and are able to encourage and equip him to be a nation changer! Another answer to prayer is that he needed $90 US to be able to purchase his visa to go to the DR, and God provided all the money through various people.

Denz and I in Morri

We also got to work on the tanks with a local name Denz, who is a brother of two other men in our DTS. One cool thing about Haiti is there is such a value on family and everyone seems to have relatives or friends everywhere they go.

It was also an incredible unexpected blessing that we were able to spend the time at a beachside resort! We sure experienced a different side of Haiti that isn't on the news very much: it is an incredibly beautiful place that will surely be the premier vacation destination in the future. Many people have even felt the Holy Spirit saying that it will be a destination instead of people trying to leave all the time. Well if God said it then it will happen. It is getting easier and easier to believe that Haiti WILL be a blessing to the world!

The beautiful sunset at the beach in Morri

We were also able to build a tank at a local orphanage where about 25 girls and 2 boys ages 9 and under are staying. The highlight for me was working with a little boy named John Kelly, who even from the age of 5 was working side by side with us the whole time. He was helping me carry sand, he was bringing water and had such a servants heart. Everyone on the team agreed that he was certainly growing into a mighty man of God!

We have been affectionately named Ekip Bab'n (Team Bab'n) by our own team members, which simply means we think we're pretty cool, which is true cause that what God thinks!

Thanks again for all of your prayers and support! God surely is doing a lot and thank you for being a part of it!

If you could continue to pray for the following things that would be a huge blessing:

• For God to continue refining and strengthening our team so we can be the pure and spotless bride that God desires us to be!
• Provision for everything needed to get a passport for one of our Haitians
• Vision for the fullness and God and the grace to fast and pray to make it a reality!
• Continued growing in our Knowledge of God that we may share it with others.
  

I'm still alive!

Hey everyone, thank you so much for all of your prayers! It case you didn't hear, I had dengue fever and went to the hospital in Haiti August 22nd 2 weeks ago. Doctors thought I should leave Haiti so my mom flew to New York to meet me at my aunt and uncle's house in Lynbrook, New York. I've been resting here for the last week. Jesus is healing me and I feel much better because of many people's prayers. Life is not boring!

Someone asked me what God wanted to teach me, and I learned that it really is possible to experience the fruit of the Spirit in any situation. I actually was laughing at various points in the hospital because of the Holy Spirit moving in my heart. At the same time, it times effort. We have to press in and really fight to focus on God throughout any circumstance, many times choosing faith over what our emotions may say. I didn't do that at certain times, and suffered loss and let the enemy get me down. But when I did choose to focus on Jesus I was delightfully full of joy.

During the process of being sick I did get frustrated honestly, but I realized that every negative thing that may be frustrating ultimately is a result of Satan's influence on humanity. Even sin is a result of Satan's influence, so we can be furious with Satan in a godly way in difficult circumstance and use that Godly emotion to wage war on the evil one. God has also showed me how much fun music is and he is calling me more and more to worship Him with music.

To top things off, my mom had an accident with power tools and had to go to the emergency room on Saturday September 3rd (which can happen to anyone by the way). As a result her finger was damaged and is in pain, but we're believing God will heal it supernaturally as we do all we can physically.

So now I get to go back to Port-au-Prince, Haiti tomorrow and rejoin my outreach team as we leave for other parts in Haiti on Wednesday Sept. 7th.

We will be going to another town in Haiti called Morri to build water catchment tanks so that people would have clean water to drink and to know Jesus as the provider of living water.

Another exciting thing going on is that there is a 9 month School of Biblical Studies (SBS) in Taiwan that many students, both Haitian and foreign are interested in going to! Of course, they will need much prayer as well for the application process, learning English and for all the finances necessary to get to the school.

As my mom is healing and we get out on our assignments from the Lord, if you could agree with God and pray in the following ways I would be so happy!

• Pray that God would pour out His spirit on our team and bring unity, love, wisdom and the power and authority of Jesus Christ, to see many hearts turned back to the Lord and a release of signs of wonder to confirm the message that we preach in word and deed
• Pray that God would pour our His spirit and turn the Nations of Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Benin, Brazil, Panama back to Him!
• Pray that God would do a miracle and make my mom's finger better than it was before.
• Pray that God would open all the doors to get visas, passports and all the favor necessary to get the destinations that the Lord has ordained.
• Pray that students feeling led to the SBS will have everything they need (finances, passports, visas, english)

Thank you so much everyone!