Prayer Request

We would ask that you would keep in prayer a 12 member team that will be leaving on February 22, 2010 to Haiti for a short-term  mission trip under the leadership of the University's President, Dr. John R. Peyton.

This trip was planned and scheduled in 2009 but we now understand even the more why the Lord appointed this month as the time He would have us in Haiti.

As you know Dr. Peyton is also the senior Pastor of Reconciliation Community Church. Reconciliation Community Church has been supporting two ministries in Haiti since 1988 - Pastor Luc St. Felix, pastor of Missions  for Christ, Haiti, Port au Prince and the Sunshine Orphange Home under the direction of the Ganthiers in Petionville. Pastor Luc's ministry includes overseeing over 60 churches in mountain villages as well as schools and feeding centers in the mountain villages of Santo Desert which is about an hour and 45 minutes from Port-au-Prince; in  "Fonds-Verettes Trois-Mats" and "Foret Des Pins" which are about two hours from Port au Prince. He also has church and school in Croix-des-Bouquets. Croix-des-Bouquets was a voodoo temple and through the ministry of Pastor Luc, the witchdoctor there was won to Jesus and his place was turned into a church. It is about 45 minutes from Port au Prince as well.

Pastor's Luc's church and training center (where he would bring the pastors under his leadership from the mountain villages to train in the Word of G-d and ministry) was completely destroyed in the earthquake. There were members of the church inside when the earthquake hit. This great man of G-d has lived a life of faith dedicated to winning Haiti for Jesus Christ. Despite the news that is often aired about this island - there are a people of G-d in Haiti winning souls!

The Sunshine Orphange home is home to children who parents have either died or abandoned them (before the earthquake). "Poppa and Momma J" Ganthiers have taken in children for over 25 plus years and are the only parents that many of these children will ever know. (The picture to the left are some of the children at the Sunshine Home. Photo was taken on our last trip in 2006). We know with what has taken place, many more children will need the love and care of Poppa and Momma J.
 

Dean Carol Powell will also be a part of this trip. Haiti was her first missionary travel in 1988 and she has a (spiritual) daughter in Tros-Mats (Marianna) who she met when in '88 when Mariann was only 5 years old.                                                            
                      Marianna and her daughter)----> 

Thank you n advance ifor your prayers and we are believing to be used by G-d in whatever way He deems fit while we are in Haiti.