We have a team in Cap Haitian working on Solar Panels at Starfish School from 11/08-11/18.
We have a team of 11 in Port-au-Prince working with our Homes For Haiti Project from 11/12-11/20. They will be finishing up minor details on some of the houses and preparing the foundation for the next house to be built.
We have a missionary in Cap Haitian helping teach in our seminary from 11/12-11/26.
A picture of the finished house our team of 19 worked on last week.
The Caribbean:
We have a team of 4 going to do prayer and evangelism ministry from 11/14-11/22.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are always exciting times for us, but at the same time they tend to get pretty busy with events. We are looking forward to seeing family next week for Thanksgiving and are already hard at work on our plans for Christmas. It's fun to think that this is the first Thanksgiving and Christmas for Aliyana.
This week I've been hard at work on getting our newsletter printed and out the door. Hopefully, everything will be done later this week and they'll be on the road to your mailboxes. Getting Teams ready for the field and following-up with teams that have come from the field is also keeping me busy. Just this past week we received encouraging news from a group that just got back from Barranquilla, Colombia. The group participated with a team of 56 North Americans and they worked side-by-side with over 160 Colombian Christians to do evangelism and church planting. One of the tools they used while sharing the saving message of Jesus Christ was the EvangeCube (check out the video below). The teams presented the Gospel to 2,148 people during their one week stay. They report that 1,578 people made professions of faith. There were 70 small groups started, all under the watchful eye of the local churches. They treated 517 people with the medical team that went, as well as 40 dental patients.
We will be partnering with our Colombian national workers beginning next April to do similar work through the OMS-related Igleico church family. Please continue to pray for those that accepted Christ during this trip. Next year we plan on sending teams to Colombia to do trips just like this in April, July, and early November of 2012. All of us here at Men for Missions would encourage you to pray about being involved in going to Antioquia next year to share the Good News and help start worship groups along with our Colombian partners. If I have learned anything while working at Men for Missions, it is that God LOVES to use ordinary people, like you and me, to share the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. By going with us on one of these teams, you would experience, what we like to call, your "life-changing journey."
We have a lot to be thankful for this year, but we have never been more thankful for those of you who lift our ministry up in prayer and financially support us.
We have a guy at our Haitian Seminary teaching from 10/29-11/12.
We have a team of 19 going into Port-au-Prince to build 2 houses for our Homes For Haiti project from 11/04-11/13.
Colombia:
We have a group in Baranquilla partnering with E3 Partners working on evnagelism and church planting from 10/29-11/05.
Below our some pictures from the most recent team in Port-au-Prince working on our Homes For Haiti project.
Perhaps nothing else can make you better appreciate family than an extended time away from them. I got back from Texas this past Thursday, and I've enjoyed these past couple of days being with Brie and Ali. This past Saturday, after not having much time with each other, all three of us traveled up to Chicago for the day. It was a lot of fun. We drove by Wrigley Field, Navy Pier, and enjoyed walking through their free zoo and along the lake.
This week has been fairly busy too for us. Currently we have 4 teams out on the field and are already working on trips as far out as April 2012. It's a true joy to help people participate in the Great Commission overseas and it's always nice to hear how they've been impacted by the trip that (with your help and support) we were able to put together for them. This weekend is One Weekend. It gives people from all over the U.S. a chance to come rub shoulders with missionaries and get a feel for what mission life is like and helps them explore if becoming a missionary is something they would like to consider.
Thank you for your prayers while I was out of town. Brie and Ali felt very well taken care of and prayed for. Brie is feeling much better and I think Ali is finally getting over her sinus infection. Luckily, our health insurance kicks in next week, so she can go to the doctor. Please continue to pray for us, the teams we have out in the field and One Weekend this Friday-Sunday.
We have a Homes For Haiti team of 11 in
Port-au-Prince until October 30.
We have a team of 3 in Mirabelais to work on a downlink site for our Radio Station Radio 4VEH until October 26.
We have a team of 11 from Columbus, IN in Cap Haitian doing radio distribution and evangelism until October 26.
We have 1 guy going into Cap Haitian to teach at Emmaus Seminary October 29-November 12.
Colombia:
We have a prayer team of 7 in Medellin, Colombia to support the ECC Church Multiplication Training event until October 29.
We have an evangelism team joining 49 others in Barranquilla, Colombia October 29-November 5. They will be using the EvangeCube and I Am Second materials and training along with E3 Partners.
Here we are supporting the University of Indianapolis
(where Briyana works) with our U-Indy t-shirts.
It seems as though everytime I fly somewhere, I always get, "I'm leaving on a jet-plane, don't know when I'll be back again." stuck in my head. Fortunately, I know when I'll be back. I'm heading to Texas to hopefully finish up raising support for our ministry and visit some friends and supporters.
While I'm gone, please keep Briyana and Ali in your prayers. Brie has been under the weather the past couple of days and she fears that she has a sinus infection. Unfortunately, our insurance doesn't kick into effect until November. Ali has also not been feeling well. Infact, yesterday she came to work with me because she was not well enough to go to parents-day-out.
This past week, our church started a new series on money. It was a fantastic sermon and I feel really challenged each individual to take a hard look at how they view money.
God Bless You!
Brent, Briyana, and Aliyana
This Week In Short Term:
Haiti:
We have a team of 6 in Port-au-Prince finishing a Homes For Haiti project until October 16.
We have a team of 6 going into Port-au-Prince October 15-23 to build a house with the Homes For Haiti project.
We have a team of 3 going to Mirabelais October 18-26 to work on a downlink site for Radio 4VEH.
We have a team of 11 from Columbus, IN going into Cap Haitian October 19-26 to do evangelism and radio distribution.
This past week went by way too fast. All week, my parents were in town, and we had a blast showing them around town, headquarters, and sharing baby time with them. Ali is discovering how to laugh recently and she has been much more expressive. It's been a hoot to see her interact with people. Thank you for your prayers concerning my parents saftey and health. Both of them got back home safely yesterday, and beside the incident I already mentioned in a previous post, both left perfectly healthy.
We had the chance this past Saturday to go to a open house where Brie is teaching. It was hosted by the Student Nursing Association, and it was really neat to see all the professors and staff she interacts with.
This past Sunday we went to Common Ground Church and they were talking about their strategy for staying effective in reaching the community of Indianapolis and being a biblical model of a church. Rather than growing larger and become less intimate, we are going to grow smaller by spreading out and develop more churches, so we can be more intimate and effective sharing the love of Christ with those we live around in our community. To many this doesn't make sense. At first, it took me a little while to understand, but now I do and I can't wait to see the results.
This week, please pray that Brie and I would find time for each other, pray that we would find time to be in the Word, and that we would be delibrate in the conversations we have with our co-workers and sphere of influence.
We have a work team of 6 in Cap Haitian, Haiti September 10 - October 5. This team is a family from Nebraska who is working at our medical clinic. Please pray for their safe travel and transition back into U.S. culture. Pray that in the coming weeks they will be able to digest what they saw God do overseas, and hear what the Lord wanted to teach them.
We have a team of 6 going to Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 3-10 to work on a Homes For Haiti project.
