Praise! Pray! Pray! Pray!

Praise God! We have an appointment at the US Embassy. Mich's bones are deteriorating, and he needs to come to the US for treatment. Pray that the embassy would grant a "Emergency Medical Visa". Especially keep this in prayer Wednesday morning. Pray

Presentation Schedule

Michael Martin and family are home on furlough. Here is a prospective schedule of the presentations that they will be doing in churches.

Monday, April 21 - Madison, IN - 7:00 pm, Madison Mennonite, Contact Marvin Yoder for more info #812-273-5530, cell #812-599-1772

Tuesday, April 22 - Cannelburg, IN  at the "Produce Building", 7:00 PM for more info contact Don Graber #812-486-7703

Wednesday, April 23 - Arcola, IL - 7:00 pm, Pleasantview,  for more info contact Daryl Hershberger #217-273-1444

Sunday evening, April 27 - Berea Christian Fellowship - Nappanee, IN - 6:00 PM, for more info contact Kermit Zimmerman #574-312-0846

We still have openings. If you would like us to come to your church, please call Mervin Sommers #517-287-4007 or cell # 517-398-4669.

Please check back as more programs are being added.

Jesus Film in Marre Roseau

We were happy to be able to show the Jesus Film and distribute Good Seed Devotionals in the mountains of Marre Roseau. These mountains are south-west of Fond Parisien and west of Pays Pourri.

After the second flat tire, we had to wait for Pete to come to our rescue.

The load: Speaker and projector for showing the Jesus Film, seven cases of Good Seed Devotionals, and food for a school.

The last hour we had to hike and the mules hauled the boxes.

A volunteer carried the speaker on his head!

Showing the Jesus Film.

Because of our flat tires, we arrived very late. A lot of people had already went home, thinking we weren't coming.

The little house we slept in.

Gardens, with dry stack rock terraces. 

 The mountains to the south.

Giving these pastors Good Seed Devotionals to take to their area of the mountains.

Sunday morning church.

More dry stack rock.

The valley to the north.

Haiti Benefit Auction in Miami Valley, Ohio.

Please pray for the Auction tomorrow. Thank you to Cornerstone Church and all our friends in the Miami Valley. Check their website.
http://www.haitiauction.org/

The Word of God goes forth!

Praise God we were able to give out 100 Bibles to the church leaders in the mountains of Pays Pourri. Someone blessed us with a donation to buy Bibles for all the church leaders that participated in the Church Leader Seminar that we held in December. There was a shortage of Bibles for a few months, and we were not able to buy Bibles to give to the church leaders that participated in the second seminar that was held in Badie, Pays Pourri. But Kreyol Bibles are available again, so we were able to buy the Bibles and give them out. Praise God!

The boxes of Bibles.

 Craig Swartzentruber is helping give out the Bibles. Craig and his family are visiting from Montana.

 The church leaders are excited. They are reading from their new Bibles.

 We had Sunday School teachers too!

 This man came 6 hours walk to get his Bible.

 And Bibles for the cooks too!

 We were blessed to receive the Good Seed Devotional from Hanspeter and Käthy Häni Guggisberg, missionaries that visited us from Switzerland. They donated 12 boxes of Good Seed Devotionals for the mountains of Pays Pourri and Mare Rozeau.

 This pastor came to us alarmed. He couldn't find Psalms in the Bible we gave him. He thought we must have given him a Bible that didn't have Psalms in it. We helped him find Psalms and put the bookmark in for him. He right away read two Psalms. It was easy to tell the Psalms was his favorite book of the Bible.

Please pray that these pastors would study the Word. It is so important that they feed their congregation with the Word. 

Refeeding

God bless you Mary Ann for the work you are doing. 

 Mary Ann feeding a little malnourished girl.

 Kenlove, his type of malnutrition causes swelling. 

 His swollen feet.

 Mary Ann's sister Amy feeding him milk.

Veronica helps her mom with the refeeding.

Looking healthier and happier.

 Wow, looking good!

 Ready to back to dad and grandma. 

 Devensky lost a tooth. Devensky came to us in November of 2012 with cholera, parasites, and severly malnourished. It's hard to believe he's the same guy.

Mich's mom came with her sick twins. Mary Ann helped her nurse them back to health. Here is Mich holding the little twins.

Please lift up the work of the IFM children's home in prayer. Also, please consider making a donation to help with this great work. God bless each of you for your interest in helping the precious people in Haiti for the Glory of God!

Building a house for a needy single mom.

We were blessed to have a donation to build a house for a needy person in our church. Here are pictures of the hard work that went into making it happen.

 Digging the footer and laying up the rock foundation. 

 Setting the rebar posts

 Bòs Christen

 Mike trying to oversee several things at a time. Thank God for cell phones.

 Walls up.

Laying block.

 Jack helping.

 The mason on the crew.

 Forming up for the concrete posts.

 Putting on the roof.

 Looking good.

Pouring the floor. 

In 4 1/2 days, we are almost finished. Fast work!