Updates and Prayer Needs!

The last couple days have been extremely busy. We know it hasn't been a week since our last post, but so much has happened we wanted to go on and write. This past Sunday we had the opportunity to give our testimonies at a church that may be a possible plant. We found out the night before that we'd be speaking, so if you know us at all you know God had to come through major to calm our fears! It went really well though. Turns out speaking through a translator is way easier than we expected, since we have time to think of the next line while they're still translating. Anyways, this house is where we chose to have the medical clinic for the past few days. We took turns taking blood pressures and praying with each patient in Creole as they left. We saw over 430 patients in two and a half days. The same guy that allowed us to use his house (not a believer at the time) prayed to receive Christ just as we ended the medical clinic! Delores let us watch as she witnessed to him and his sister. Please be in prayer for Yves as he begins his walk and his sister as she claims to be a Christian but is still struggling in some sin. We also had the chance during the clinic to discuss the Bible with a Haitian man named Jeff, who spoke very good English. He, as well as many other Haitians, has so many questions about God and His Word, but doesn't have anyone to turn to for answers. We've realized that many of these people who are seeking Christ, and those who are already Christians, are passionate but have very little if any discipleship.

It is also very disheartening that one of our translators, Desire, had a father who recently passed away. Even more sad is that just the day before we had an opportunity to hear his testimony. He asked us the question "Are you blessed enough to have both parents alive?" After we answered, we asked him and he said yes. He then began to explain that his father was very sick, and he worried about him because he was not sure he was saved. Pray that he would experience peace through the Holy Spirit during this time and he would continue to lean on Jesus.

Another amazing witnessing opportunity is right across the street with not Haitians, but Pakistanis. The UN base for Pakistan is literally ten feet from our front gate. Delores met them a few months back when she got locked out of our compound and had no place to go. They fell in love with her and she even has one man in particular call her "Mom". Since then she and some of the teams have continued to go visit. We have had the opportunity to go twice in the past couple weeks. Our typical conversation isn't what you would expect. Commander Malik is quite the jokester as he called a man on our team last week "sexy" and made jokes the entire time. He loves to play the "Age Guessing Game" and is pretty right on usually...besides thinking I (Jordan) was 13 and Kristi 23...I guess she looks 10 years older! For dinner Kristi and I made cupcakes and a cake...with green icing that looked like mold...but nevertheless we made it! Fortunately they loved it. Who can blame them? But besides that they invite us to come play sports with them (Cricket, Volleyball, etc.) any night we want to at 5:30. Hopefully as we develop relationships with them some doors will open for witnessing. Until then we'll continue to dress in full body suits :)


We are off to the beach again this morning, one plus of having new groups every week. I can feel your jealousy :).