From May 1, 2012 to May 31, 2012, Foxchase Golf Club in Pennsylvania is donating 10% (ten percent) of Greens Fees, Range, and Food Sales after 12:00PM, 7 days a week to YWAM-Haiti.

The coupon (click here to download) has to be presented prior to the transaction in order for YWAM-Haiti to receive the donation. Remember we are only on for the month of May.

Foxchase Golf Club is located at

300 Stevens Road

Stevens, PA 17578

717-336-3673

www.foxchasegolf.com

2012 is a year of “New Beginnings”! Already this year we have sensed the turning of the tide as we move on towards transformation as we see many completions to our relief efforts following the 2010 earthquake.

We reached our final goal of moving the last families into new permanent cement block homes, and, this month, we started the construction of a new school in New Beginnings village. Thanks to a Rotary Club in Florida and a partnering church in Louisiana, the first 8 rooms of this 16 classroom school are paid for! This half of the school will enable up to 400 children to receive an education. A need that also is a gift to the 100 families that have just received homes!

School Construction

The new community market promoting jobs and merchant sales is also advancing. This market will allow us to introduce Biblical principles in the “market place,” bringing an environment for the destruction of poverty.

This week we had a wonderful Pastors and Church leaders seminar. 73 people gathered at our campus here in St. Marc. Our goal was to teach these leaders how to move in greater spiritual influence and win more to Christ. During our teaching we all realized that we need to watch so we don’t  fall into satan’s trap of harboring past offenses, but walk in greater unity, utilizing the spiritual gifts God has given us all.

It is hard to believe that it has only been a month and all the above has happened; if the year continues as it has begun we look forward to new releases and healing to come.

In addition to all these practical improvements we always sought opportunity to share Christ with the prisoners. Over the years we have seen many saved. One prisoner, Jacob, was released and went through our training program (Discipleship Training School) and is currently on staff praying about going to Surname, South America, for a missions outreach!

December 9, 2011, 67 of the 302 prisoners were baptized in the St. Marc prison! You may ask how do you baptize prisoners in prison? We brought in a bath tub and filled it with water from the well we had drilled in 2001. For images stay tuned to our website www.ywamhaiti.org where we will be placing footage before Christmas.

Patrick Ovilmar, YWAM St. Marc staff, has been the point man for leading regular Sunday services and assisting in aid concerning the practical needs of the prisoner or prison. His faithfulness and those before him coupled with a team from Heritage Park Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, proved the effective work of preaching and discipling as Christ commanded in Matthew 28:19. God is faithful and truly gives hope to the hopeless!

Join us in thanking God for this great news! Patrick is now campaigning to see a Bible placed in the hands of every prisoner. A Bible cost $8 USD in St. Marc. If you would like to participate in this campaign simply reply to this email by telling us how many Bibles you would like to give and send your gift to the address below.

Taking the High Places!

Terry W. Snow

YWAM Haiti

If you would like to make a contribution to this program simple making your gift payable to YWAM Haiti and include a note indicating your gift is for “Bible to every Prisoner” and mail to;

YWAM Haiti

PO Box 236

Akron, PA 17501

Thank you for your partnership in building the Kingdom of God in Haiti!

Oct 27, 2011, 6:00pm
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Shady Maple Banquet Center, 129 Toddy Drive, East Earl, PA is the place to meet for this year’s YWAM Haiti Banquet! For reservation or sponsoring of tables call 717-733-4141 or E-mail: james@amesconstructioninc.com

God has done so many things this past year, but the most exciting is building even today! As our work with earthquake victims begins to draw to a closure we are refocused on how to transform a city, St. Marc, yet even a nation! Like a flower beginning to come forth from the ground as spring approaches so it is now as we see the church of Haiti beginning to arise.

What’s happened?

1. The churches of St. Marc have come together in a new way, not just in unity but with action!

2. Discipleship Training School (DTS) is on outreach. They will be heading to Panama soon as they fulfill the promise that Haitians will become a blessing!

3. New Beginning Village has developed into not only a compassionate response to the earthquake victims of 2010, but has becoming a model and training school for the church in bringing total transformation to St. Marc.

I will be talking about what we have learned, with examples, as it relates to true transformation in a community. Jesus said; “Go and make disciples of nations…”, let us dare to do it together!

Taking the High Places!

Terry W. Snow

National Director
YWAM Haiti

The pastors left with a sense of understanding that they never had before. They were so mobilized, many have already began to take action in mobilizing their people to go as God has gifted them. This Friday they have asked for a follow up meeting to discuss how they have been able to begin implementing the teaching. They are also renewing their unity for the transformation of St. Marc.

Report on River Bank Repair

We were not able to do any more work last week on the road and river bank repair in Lubin Block 4. However, the good news is that the river did not raise and the road is dry enough to make great progress beginning today. Please pray for continued dry weather and for finances to mobilize as much equipment as fast as possible.

Taking the High Places!

Terry W. Snow

YWAM Haiti

Today seven couples are to be married. These were victims of the earthquake and had never consider marriage as a commitment but only a celebration. After receiving a new home and managed to have a stable environment they began to ask about marriage. After speaking with Pastors from the Christian Network of St. Marc they learned the meaning of marriage and they have asked to be married.

Two more people accept Christ in Lubin Block 4. One of the individuals was a witchdoctor! Over 1/3 of the village has converted to Christ. Please continue to pray for Pastor Bossuet and his wife Merline who is currently pregnant with their first child.

Two Hurricanes that were headed for Haiti have diverted their coarse avoiding Haiti which is still in a very fragile state. We recognize that God has been hearing and answering our prayers!

Our DTS students are ready for outreach! With 22 in St. Marc headed for Panama and 45 in Port-au-Prince headed for Benin, Africa, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Brazil we are truly seeing Haiti rising up to become a blessing to the nations as they send forth their youth with the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Monday, August 28-30, we will be hosting a Pastors Seminar. 65 Pastors and Lay leaders are registered to participate. Our theme is “The Role of the Church in Community Transformation”. The teaching is designed to provoke us to reflect, pray and strategizing concerning the situations of our city. Please pray for us all as we come together.

The river bank along Petite Rivière near Lubin Block 4 has broken. It has flooded the lower 5^th section of St. Marc isolating four villages. In demonstration of the greatness of our God, we, Youth With A Mission, have been leading an attempt to motivate everyone to assist in this repair. The estimated cost to repair the road and breach is $25,000 USD. We have been able to motivate ODVA (Government Works) to utilize their equipment but they still need fuel for their trucks and equipment. Would you like to help? Let us know today if you are sending in a donation and how much so we can move even faster before any heavy rains come and make things worse.

God is moving and we are seeing His greatness!

Taking the High Places!

Terry W. Snow

YWAM Haiti

Our Discipleship Training School has been incredibly successful this year, with the most students we’ve ever had. In pre-DTS they learned the basics of living a Christian, spiritual life. As part of the discipleship process and to earn money for the DTS phase, they made 68,000 blocks in 5 months for the Homes of Hope. That’s about 500 a day! They’ve matured and grown tightly together as a family, which is a powerful thing to see. It seems this year’s school is specially focused on intimacy with God. Right now the 21 students, 5 of them foreigners, are in the DTS and nearing the end of their lecture phase. They have new dances and dramas for outreach to Panama. It’s the first time YWAM Haiti has ever done an outreach in Panama and through one miracle after another all of the students have gotten passports and are in the process now of getting visas. The Lord has been doing many amazing things through the lives of all the students and they are certainly not the same people anymore!

Haitians are much into dance and music, which is probably why our staff wanted to start 2 new ministries about that. The first one, Dancers of God, is a group of dancers who used to dance for entertainment and themselves, but now they want to dedicate their moves to the master choreographer. They come on the YWAM campus in the evenings to learn new dances and then perform them to teams and on local TV. The second one, Men of God, is takes the place of music instead. This ministry is a joined effort of a local church band and the lyrics and voices of our staff on base.  They have only released 2 songs as of yet, but more will come. The first is a kreyole take of The More I Seek You and the second one, Jesus is the Boss, is a rap song made entirely of their own. There are no plans to turn their music into a full-time ministry, but staff will continue to create and sing their songs in the off time that they have.

Our local TV ministry has taken a new direction to focus less on what YWAM is doing and more on what God is doing through the Haitian people. It’s now called “Bon Fwi” or “Good Fruit” and is about finding the good fruit that Jesus speaks of in the Haitian community. We invite guest hosts, share messages taken from the Bible, and bring encouraging stories of Haitians unto the TV screen. Bon Fwi has a facebook page that can be found by typing “bon fwi” in the search box.

Liberty Academy will be run by New Vision ministries this year. Students will still go to the same school building, but teachers and course content will be provided by New Vision.

While there’s much more that goes on, this is a summary of stuff going on for YWAM Haiti 2011!

Yesterday DTS class in Port-au-Prince went as scheduled as we closed our session in spiritual warfare training around noon. The high winds only cooled down the normally hot classroom.

Still no significant rains this morning but a lot of much desired cloud cover giving us all some needed relief from this years intense sun. I did receive a call from the lower fifth section of St. Marc, they are prone to flooding, saying thePetite Rivière had topped her banks and was flooding the lower area heavily. It seemed that there was no loss of life or injury.

Praise be to God!

Terry W. Snow
National Director
YWAM Haiti

Wow, it’s been a long seven months, and while we have grown and been so blessed throughout, I can honestly say that I am very glad things are starting to calm down.
Starting in September we will only have one team on our campus at a time. This is a huge difference from 12 – 15 teams at a time [exaggeration].

God is good! As I sat in our staff meeting yesterday and was able to hear what God has done through His people I knew I couldn’t help but share.

In the last seven months, God has…

- Opened and maintained three tent cities for displaced earthquake victims. One inside the city, just down the road from our campus, and the other two just outside city limits.

- Registered the victims to make sure that the people with the most need are assisted.

- Helped to better YWAM Haiti’s relationship with some government officials, earned their respect, and in turn, their favor.

- Sent teams and individuals to come along side our long term staff in order to move forward in the vision He prepared in advance for us.

- Provided financially for these visions, despite the economic difficulties of this year.

But that was only the beginning…

- This weekend, two of the tent cities will be closed, and all the families from those locations will be in permanent housing, built by our staff and teams from around the world.

- He provided teams and individuals to teach and disciple on how to live in community.

- We are in the process of acquiring the land to build up this area. Add a market, school, church, community center, building the economy and breaking the dependency/victim mentality.

- We have received 98 containers (pre-earthquake we processed 2 per year) through our campus (some for other ministries) all with relief supplies given directly to the people.

- There are now God breathed, long term plans set for the future.

- In addition, He opened and is well maintaining the brand new base in Port Au Prince.

All of these things are what has happened in relation to the earthquake and the relief involved. God has also been moving in the areas of ministry personal to our campus.

- Philipson, head of the prison ministry, said yesterday that one of the higher ups in the chain of command has noticed the biggest transformation and change in the prison we regularly visit. He was comparing it to all the prisons in our area.

- The local pastor’s network has agreed to partner with us to help the ladies in our brothel ministry who want to get out, and the first lady moved into a pastor’s home just yesterday.

- The DTS (Discipleship Training School) is growing and thriving under the discipleship of our very inadequate staff, who by the grace of God, are leading extraordinarily.

- The new Liberty Academy school building is nearly finished, and there are almost enough teachers for next school year.

What a huge God we serve! There is so much more to come. His faithfulness is overwhelming and His provision leaves those who don’t understand or acknowledge Him, completely dumbfounded.
As we step into this new phase of our life called parenthood, I cling to this faithfulness and know full well His provision.

None of this could have been accomplished without the help of those who came down to serve, or fund these projects. YWAM Haiti thanks you for all you have done, and what you might be planning to do, in the future!!  Beni Swa L’Eternal!

What’s it like building/funding a Homes of Hope? It seems more and more people are finding that out. Right now, homes are needed more desperately than ever, as thousands are starting to make their makeshift tents the long-term housing choice. In Saint Marc, plans have been drawn up for the construction of a community for the refugees in Timonette. Meanwhile, tin homes are already going up in the tent community of Perisse.

Only days ago, a Switzerland team came down to fellowship and work alongside earthquake victims. Churches had given this team cash to help the Haitians. Using the money and their muscles, the team built a concrete Home of Hope for a family living in an adobe hut. There is nothing more effective, yet so simple, as building a home for a family. It gives them a foundation, a hope, and an understanding of what it means to be loved!

In Port-au-Prince, where the needs are greatest, YWAM staff are clearing rubble and rebuilding one step at a time. As the leader for Port-au-Prince & a fellow Haitian, Peterson sees a need for growth in spiritual foundations, which is why one of his projects is rebuilding a church. Visit here for recent news on what they are doing in the ravaged capitol.

Soon after the earthquake YWAM received information that the hospital in St. Marc had an overflow of victims that it had no room for. The YWAM staff was filled with compassion and responded immediately, bringing patients to their auditorium and caring for them in any way they could. There had been previous vision to have a clinic as part of the base but with the events of the earthquake it’s priority was brought forefront. God knows all things and is always at work! Within just a couple weeks after the earthquake a building about half a mile down the street from the base was offered to YWAM to be used as a clinic. However, it wasn’t pretty. The building was completely abandoned and had been used for years as a public toilet. Volunteers immediately began the grim task of cleaning and restoring. They shoveled piles of waste out of the rooms and cleaned the grounds around the property and now, six weeks later, the clinic is fully functioning with rooms of supplies and beds for the recovering!

Currently there are two short term medical teams at work organizing supplies, diagnosing patients and even performing some surgeries. The tangible love of Jesus has been poured out to the desperate and poor as God’s children offer themselves as the hands and feet of the Body of Christ. While doctors and nurses were hard at work inside the clinic with patients, others were outside gathering a crowd with dance, spoken word, and preaching the gospel. The people have responded with joy and thankfulness to the love they’ve received and are moving forward despite their dire situation. In fact, in many cases the faith and endurance of the Haitian people has challenged those here helping who have the option of returning to better living conditions.

There is, and will continue to be, great need for short-term relief teams to come and invest their time and skills. But the problems here are as much complex as they are desperate, and there is now a cry of help that pleads a response from those that God has called to Haiti for the long-term.

Story and photos by Kalai Photography