Hi all,

I am in Haiti currently serving the Lord at a Children's Home until April 17. Arrival was 2 weeks ago, and I feel that I am supposed to be doing more. Where do you want to send me Lord? I am missing everyone, but the need is so big here. The children have hurts and need loving, and the Lord knows each and everyone of them need to be trained in his ways, but there isn't enough help. Can I do this? The missionary we met on the flight to Port-au-Prince, keeps coming to my heart. She is helping at an orphanage with twice as many children as we have here and they are all older. They don't have enough food. I want to help them so bad. I've always thought I would adopt, but I can't help but wonder if the Lord can use me for more. There are sooo many children and they can't all be adopted. What is the bigger solution? At this point all I can do is Praise  the Lord for the Homes he is giving to the ones he does.

If anyone would like to know more about my Haiti trip or adoption etc, please visit my current blog at www.haitichildren.genesisgenius.com I am updating it as often as I may.

Yesterday, Dad, Benjamin, and I, went to the MAF "grand welcoming" in Nampa. The MAF headquarters of the US just moved from California to this area and I must say, it was so much bigger then I had expected to see. The operations they have going are giant. The facilities are very well designed and accomidating. Computer systems are very impressive, and the people were amazing. There were Missionaries that served in so many different countries. We talked to Judy Olenik who shared some of her stories about living in the D. R. of Congo. She served 17 years altogether in Africa, countries including Madagasscar and Kenya. We talked to Jim Manley who served in Ecuador, South America for 17 years. He was really interested in some of our ideas including the Solar Radio that we can build into a book cover for around $1. Carolyn Bailey, who works in Learning Technologies. She was very up to par in Linux. They use Linux with Windows emulators, which is really cool. They gave us the whole study course on CD which we will be able to upload and make available for download. (I will let you know so you can get it!) If I remember correctly, the course has 20 different versions of the bible within 16 different languages. I would consider it highly usable for somone wishing to study languages, because of the familiarity you would have with the Bible. We also met Operation ACCESS! which is a really really neat program they use to see where work is more needed and evaluate what is being accomplished.

The Air Planes were very neat too. We got to look in some of them and some people got a ride, but there were thousands of people there and we were there later in the day so we didn't get a chance to fly.

Go visit the Missions Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Website

The story goes like this... At around 08:00 this morning, a very strange man walked in the store. He announced for everyone to hear "Hi! I'm a stranger... Hitchhiker... Do you give sample coffee?" Well, I'm not unused to strange people, and I've learned that the Lord wants me to treat all people as himself, so with great joy I offered him a large cup of coffee on the house. He was delighted. While I served the customers in front of him, he picked up a copy of The Fool which I had left on the table and began to read it. The customers who were inside soon left, and this was my chance! I got him his coffee and told him to go ahead and take some of the comics with him, so he selected 3 and put them in his pocket. He said he remembered reading This Was Your Life and that it was a "Trip" for him. He liked that the guy turned good in the end. Now, before you start thinking this guy was somewhat normal, please note, he was nervous and gabby. Some of the things he said made no sense at all, and he really wasn't all there. I was pretty sure he was on drugs, and when I asked where he was headed he mentioned a movie about a drug addict who was going nowhere looking for home. I started to pray for him silently, that the Lord would use the tracts. He left, and walked down the road, stopping at a sign about a block away. I could see him pretty well, as a he sat there reading the tracts. I felt impressed to pray much for him, so I did and he came back! Within 10 minutes, he was back. He returned the tracts so that someone else could read them and I encouraged him to take some more so he did. He said he enjoyed "The Peace Maker which at the time I didn't recall what it was about, but the Lord knew. I could sense his longing for peace, and really felt for him when he found the Navy recruitersbrochure and asked to use the phone. He tried to call, but he couldn't dial the numbers correctly. He was able to dial the 1 800 number and talked to a couple of different people about joining the Navy. Unfortunately for the person on the other end, he was making little sense. After this, I asked him about his life story and what he was searching for. I continued to pray and ask the Lord to give me word to say and that they would be his words to his glory. I asked him if he was saved, and he said "Yes! Of course." but I probed him a little and he said "You don't believe I am saved do you?!" and I said "Well... I have a hard time believing it." well, he got kind of tense, and paced a little bit, then admitted much more then you might want to hear, including "Well, I've walked with Jesus. He's a brother. I was there when he died." and "I am the Lion of Judah". This was rather alarming. I said, which much more gut then I know I have, "That is blasphemy!" and "Christ is the Lion of Judah." He uttered some more non-sense about Budda and some others and he wasn't going to hell. More words that I could not have said of myself told him that Jesus said "I am the way the truth and the Life, no man comes to the Father, but by me." and "The bible says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." He again proclaimed his own righteousness was sufficiant. I said "I see the struggle in you and I command the devil in you to leave in the name of Jesus Christ" Well, again, he stepped out, ready to go. He came back in and I offered him some food. He had some pasta salad, over which I was able to talk to him some more. I told him of God's love for him and his desire to free him of his bondage to sin and that the Power of God could deliver him from sin and death. I had a customer at the window and he muttered something about "dark to light" when I was back, he became upset. "I'm not going to hell." He was ready to leave and heading out the door when I asked the Lord for more help. I hesitated for words to say, then said "God Bless You". He poked his head in the door again and said "Is Ghandi going to hell?" and I said "what?" and he repeated the question. I said "I don't know a Ghandi". He marched right back in. "I just don't like it when people tell me I'm going to hell. I am God's will." then I had to help another customer at the drive through. He paced around a minute. The struggle in him was very evident. He jumped out of his chair. "I don't want to go to hell. Can we pray? I want to pray now!" so we were just about to pray when another customer came. I helped them, and was back again. He didn't want to pray, so I did and I asked the Lord to fill this man with his Holy Spirit that he would be his people and that God would be his God. In a moment, when I look up, his face was different. The demon was gone! He stepped out for a minute again and I prayed. I went and got my bible and took the things out of it that I needed to keep. He just lit up like a candle, and would you believe it, his words made sense! I grabbed my bible and said "brother, I want to give you my bible. Read it, and find what the Lord has said to you..." His eyes were sparkling and he was grinning away "You are giving me your bible?!" He picked it up and blananced it on his head excitedly. "Sister!" Peace was written all over his face. Like a delighed little kid. Well, I gave him a few more words to encourage him to seek the Lord with his whole heart and he said something about how when he was in rebellion against God it was zealous and now he would now have a zeal in rebellion against evil. It was so amazing! Then he wanted to pray again, this time for himself. He asked the Lord to surely live in his heart and to be his God. God had just transFORMED this man before my eyes, and all I could do was praise him. The man told me his name was Allen, and he gave me a green hankerchief to remind me of him so I would pray for him. He left in a jiffy with a skip to his step and peace in his soul.

The Little Garden... An exceprt from Memory- the Handmaid of Hope by Charles Spurgeon. A child had a little garden in which she planted many flowers, but they never grew. She put them in, as she thought tenderly and carefully, but they would not live. She sowed seeds and they sprang up; but very soon they withered away. So she ran to her father's gardener, and when he came to look at it, he said, "I will make it a nice garden for you, that you may grow whatever you want." He fetched a pick, and when the little child saw the terrible pick, she was afraid for her little garden. The gardener struck his tool into the ground and began to make the earth heave and shake for his pickaxe had caught the edge of a huge stone which underplayed almost all the little plot of ground. All the little flowers were turned out of their places and the garden spoiled for a season so that the little maid wept much. He told her he would make it a fair garden yet, and so he did, for having removed that stone which had prevented all the plants from striking root he soon filled the ground with flowers which lived and flourished. Just so, the Lord has come, and has turned up all the soil of your present comfort to get rid of some big stone that was at the bottom of all your spiritual prosperity, and would not let your soul flourish. Do not weep with the child, but be comforted by the blessed results and thank your Father’s tender hand!

We sang at the Parma Senior Center Yesterday.

P.S. I found my post! (Yesterday)

My Grandma got me two beautiful print shirts from Blair so I decided to have a look at their website. They seem to have some modest clothing and it's classy. Go have a look!