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Guatemala
- Last Sunday, there were 4 baptisms – Brayan, Yordyn, Maribel and Jose, which are the first baptisms for Deybee & Yocelyn’s ministry in Guatemala! This ministry is funded by New Day Christian Church (Florida) and our very first Roots program will be starting there in April. Keep these new Christians in your prayers (see photos below), Deybee & Yoselyn, and the church in Guatemala.
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new believers in Guatemala!.
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Haiti
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The work team dedicated 6 houses. And the team has seen hundreds of patients and left their mark on the people of Haiti, not only at our Grand Goave Christian Health Center, but also at a number of our outpost schools/churches where they did mobile clinic.
- Our Lifeline photographer in Haiti is doing more and more with the Homes for Haiti pictures and we are “catching up” after a long period where we were in transition from the former staff person to Robenson Faustin, our new photographer.
Honduras
- 4 people were baptized last Sunday: one gentleman and 3 girls (who are residents at our Omoa Children’s Home)! Please keep Carlos, Jessenia, Elizabeth, and Johani in your prayers. (see photos below)
- The new school year has started! (the school year in Honduras is February through November) Keep our precious school children in Honduras in your prayers. See below for a photo of our Omoa Children’s Home girls who attend primary school.
- Kesaia Cojon is returning to Honduras this coming month to help work with a medical team, translate, and become involved in Lovelink as it relates to Lifeline’s Central American child sponsorship outreach. More on this later!
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top: baptisms in Honduras
bottom: our Omoa girls are ready for school!
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United States
- It’s been a busy 2015 for our volunteers: they have served 560+ hours so far this year! Many tasks have been started & completed by these wonderful servants. We love our volunteers! Thank you for your joyful service!
- We are so thankful for all new child sponsors!
- The Home & Garden Show in Central Ohio found a significant number of visitors to our Lifeline Homes For Haiti exhibit. Pray that those who expressed interest will follow through.
- Audra Norman, our latest team member, is heading up Lovelink Child Sponsorship Development and is off to a great start; she’s getting her feet wet learning about all we do at the office to expedite the child sponsorship program and to keep communications flowing between children and sponsors.
- Lifeline’s initiative to introduce video as part of child/sponsor communications is moving forward. We have located a Haitian person who studied videography and hopefully will begin working with us in May 2015.
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- For safe travel for the work team leaving and the new team arriving the next day.
- Rob DeVoe cannot seem to get relief from his pain. Rob is Lifeline’s Database Manager and Bob & Gretchen’s (Founders) son who is battling cancer.
- Lovelink Drive Coordinator Program as it is being developed.
All the new Christians who have come to Jesus in recent weeks; for them to remain faithful and to grow in spirit and truth.
- Brenda Johnson, Volunteer Work Team Coordinator, is heading to Honduras to lead the Okolona Christian Church team in early March.
- Gretchen DeVoe will be traveling to Guatemala with Kesaia Cojon to coordinate the launching of the child sponsorship component of our Roots initiative.
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ministry in El Salvador
Ministry on 2 wheels
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In January 2014, two “Evangelism Motorcycles” were purchased to provide pastors and Bible Institute students easier access to the remote, rural, and mountain house churches in El Salvador. A year later, Jose, Lifeline’s Administrator in El Salvador, shares…
This month completes a year that we’ve had the two motorcycles, which are used in ministry work. Each of these motorcycles have been a great blessing to the house churches and leaders because it makes visitation and outreach much easier.
Osmin says,
“The motorcycle is very functional for me because now, when I travel to Tepecoyo and elsewhere, I have more time to evangelize more houses and also I can visit more distant places.”
Enrique says,
“I am very happy with the motorcycle because we can visit more homes and we can cover more places than before. We thank you for donating these motorcycle for the work of God in El Salvador.”
Thank you!
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“Evangelism motorcycles” have dramatically helped ministry in El Salvador’s rural & mountainous regions
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devotion
This isn’t your home
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“There are many rooms in my father’s house.”
What a tender phrase. A house implies rest, safety, warmth, a table, a bed , a place to be at home. But this isn’t just any house. It is our Father’s house.
All of us know what it is like to be in a house that is not our own. Perhaps you’ve spent time in a dorm room or army barrack. Maybe you’ve slept in your share of hotels or bunked in a few hostels. They have beds. They have tables. They may have food and they may be warm, but they are a far cry from being “your father’s house.”
Your father’s house is where your father is…
We don’t always feel welcome here on earth. We wonder if there is a place here for us. People can make us feel unwanted. Tragedy leaves us feeling like intruders. Strangers. Interlopers in a land not ours. We don’t always feel welcome here.
We shouldn’t. This isn’t our home. To feel unwelcome is no tragedy. Indeed it is healthy. We are not home here. This language we speak, it’s not ours. This body we wear, it isn’t us. And the world we live in, this isn’t home.
excerpt from A Gentle Thunder, by Max Lucado
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memorials & honorariums
Gifts given to remember
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In memory of Dorothy Headley, given by Cross Point Christian Church
In memory of Richard Cady II, given by Donatic-Givalike
In memory of David Sprinkel, given by Phil & Paige Sprinkel and Valley Church of Christ
In memory of Mona LaFon, given by Matt & Deanna Whetstone
In memory of Heather Carroll, given by Matt & Deanna Whetstone
In memory of Charlene Daum, given by Matt & Deanna Whetstone
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