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When we speak “Revival”, we speak renewal. A revival of true
Christianity presupposes a falling away. People are spiritually sluggish. So
many things lead their minds away from God and oppose the influence of the
Gospel that God must arouse excitement in them until the wave rises so high
that it sweeps away all obstacles. Haiti, very much like the US
and the rest of the world, is very much in need of this spiritual boost. We are about preparing “the bride” (or the
church) ( or we Christians) for
presentation to the groom,. That day
is when the Lamb of God, our Lord Jesus Christ marries the church whereas the
members are rewarded for their faithful service, shortly after the Rapture. Evangelism is and
always has been our bottom line. It
has not always been our priority, especially dealing with the sick kids we
have, but we’ve been very stable now
for 2 years, especially growing up in the culture. We’ve been blessed that the Lord Has never
given us more than we can handle and lately, we’ve had requests to take on
more babies and toddlers, but we do not have the room! We started an evangelism program late last
year and it has shown big, big dividends, but it too has been curtailed. W H Y ? We are hurting financially. We have been struggling for nearly a year,
which conincides with the large economic problems for the United States,
where 99% of our support comes from.
We have just lost our generator due to metal fatigue….we just can’t
rebuild it again to be cost effective.
We have a small generator to maintain the freezer and the washing
machine for 6 hours a day. No fans, no
lights. What is the most painful is our inability to keep
constructing the new facilty. We’ve
been at it now for about 29 months, having raised and spent $24,000 of the $80,000 we had originally planned on
raising. The new home allows for expansion of a few beds that would be
immediately occupied if and when we become financially able. These are for abandoned AIDS children, who
are living in substandard conditions, usually not with family. They don’t receive the nutritional
requisites for normal children, let alone ones suffering from AIDS. Most importantly, our building has a 2500 sq ft area on
the first floor which is a church and school devoted to evangelism. The
second floor is “family”. The first
few sessions of our evangelistic efforts amounted to a ground swell of
activity……..it included our target
audience of ages of 40 6-12 yr olds, a dozen of so teens, who
always show up when we do something for a local church and a dozen or so
parents. Amongst the children were at
least 7 children from active “voudou” families. We are not even half built yet and we have
many kids who hang out there. They are
there to be constructively engaged with our efforts. We’ve been doing our own church here at
home for over two years now and run our evangelistic program much like our
church with more emphasis on that sessions story and the audio visuals. |
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Our church at home on Sundays is alive with
song, both Kreyol and English Christian music and when we are on the road,
our children provide for the good models as they sing and answer Mommas’
questions during her Bible story time.
We provide no gimmicks or give aways and the kids continue to
show……...and if the money and people where available, we could dig right in with teens and
adults. We are not attempting to
prostelytize (steal away members) any churches…...what we do is during week afternoons and evenings, but augment
Christian teaching and not sermonizing. Trisha has been in communication
with the national organization to set
up a ”Daughters of The King”, which is a non-denominational prayer
organization for women. Our minds abound in visions on where this can
go. Probably the “electricity” we feel
is in our bones, but we can’t reach these goals without support. We need people to physically help us as
well as financial assistance. Our primary request is to help us expand the
kingdom…..to bring people to Christ. It’s about loading the boat and some
feel there isn’t a lot of time. At no
time in history have end time prophecies been able to be fulfilled as they
can now. We are we need to be right
here and right now. Would you please
search your heart to help us. With the love of Christ, Ray, Trisha, Marioli, Vladimyr, Fenan and our children
- Roodline, Nadia, Gessica, Christian, Rosemond, Louvensky, William, Elda, Darlensky, Marissa Rae,
Michael and Mason. |