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YOUR’S & GOD’S MISSION MONEY AT WORK!
Lifeline’s Grand Goave Soccer Field 
           
soccer field
soccer field
 
All of the area schools in Grand Goave, Haiti are using our recently completed soccer field!  Praise the Lord!  Three times each week, between now and the end of the season in May, students, teachers and the public will be at your Grand Goave campus to participate in and watch the private and public schools compete in exciting “foutbol” games!  It’s a blessing to be able to share blessings that God and You have provided!  And, what a GREAT WITNESS to the community! Thank You.

 
 
Praises

 

El Salvador

  • The Chalchuapa Christian Church is being upgraded with wall and restroom additions.

Haiti

  • Work has begun on major remodeling and updating of the Deuxieme Plain Christian Church and School.  Watch for updates!

former students are now teachers in HondurasHonduras

  • Karlita, our special needs angel at the Omoa Children’s Home in Honduras, celebrated her 14th birthday…she is a blessing to the girls there!  Please continue to pray for her.
  • Work continues on the main building at CaryHill. The roof system is going forward and electrical work is scheduled as well.
  • “Summer break” is over and the new school year has just begun for students in Honduras. 
  • Students who attended and graduated from Lifeline’s Christian Schools in Honduras have now returned to serve as teachers in Lifeline’s schools!  Praise God for fruit in the ministry and changed lives!  In the picture from left to right – girls: Ena Deras, Jazmin Deras, Thammy Lilibeth Sierra, and Karen Reyes; boys: Selvin Aquino, Guillermo Pineda, Héctor Valenzuela.

USA

  • We are thankful for all the people who share a devotion with the staff on Thursday mornings for our prayer meeting and build us up in the Lord!  We have been blessed with many good words from ministers and mission leaders.
   
 
Prayer Requests
  • Convention planning meetings have been happening for the NACC in Indianapolis (in July) and ICOM in Columbus (in November); Lifeline will be coordinating food packing events at both conventions.  Pray for the plans to come together for the food packing events, for connections to be made, and more.  Pray that each conference will have a tremendous impact.   
  • At the Navajo ministry, improvements and septic upgrades are scheduled for next month. Pray for the $15,000 needed for the new system.  Contact JD@Lifeline.org if your organization or church could assist with these needed upgrades.
  • For the upcoming Leadership Training Seminar to be held in Port Au Prince, Haiti for the first time!  It will be at our Mahotiere campus which also is home to our Mahotiere Christian Church, Children’s Home, grade school, high school and medical/dental clinic.  The third floor “earthquake damage” of the dormitory has been repaired and it is being readied for Andy Sims (Lifeline’s Leadership Development Director) and the visiting professors to stay at during the seminar
  • Our top management staff in all locations have been working to find more ways to cut costs to save money as we seek to improve our stewardship.  Please pray that we continue to be successful in this effort.  This is a “biggie.”

  

You can view Lifeline’s weekly prayer list at www.Lifeline.org/pray.
 
 
Karlita
our precious Karlita in Honduras
People, Projects & Programs
Your Simple Gifts

Russ Chick, from North Park Church of Christ, shared this with their church.  We wanted you to know that your gifts – no matter how big or small – are impacting the precious children in Lifeline’s ministries! 

 

Darren Austin, a member of North Park Church, recently donated 480 large size “Pull-Up” diapers that he could no longer use for his autistic son.  His hope was that through our [North Park’s] Food Pantry, we might find other families that could use these rather expensive diapers.  Finding no appropriate way of distributing them through our Food Pantry, the Benevolence Director, Russ Chick, contacted Dana Krahel, Lifeline’s Volunteer Director.  

 

Dana excitedly explained that she had just received a shipment of goods that was missing an order of large size “Pull-Up” diapers intended for the Omoa Children’s Home in Honduras.  The diapers were ordered especially for a 13-year-old girl who lives a the home and suffers form Lennox Syndrome.

 

Dana explained that she and 17 other Lifeline missionaries were flying to Honduras in four days. Having exhausted all her resources and not finding diapers in time for their flight, she was still praying for a solution.  Dana’s prayers were answered!  

 

Four days later, the 18 Lifeline missionaries (transporting 480 diapers in their personal luggage) flew from the Columbus International Airport to Honduras, and there delivered a wonderful gift of love from Darren Austin to a young girl he had neither met nor heard of, a little girl known as Karlita, one of God’s children!

 

 

Many thanks to all of you who donate much needed ministry items!   You can find a list of ongoing needed items on our website.

 
 
Devotion 
Calm the Inner Storm
 
In times of trouble, 
may the Lord 
answer your cry.  
May the name of the 
God of Jacob keep you 
safe from all harm…
May we shout for joy 
when we hear of 
your victory and raise 
a victory banner in 
the name of our God.  
May the Lord answer 
all your prayers.

Psalm 20:1, 5
 
It’s hard to remember when we’re in the middle of tough situations, but while we are in the midst of them and wondering how in the world they will ever end or how we will get out of them, we are doing nothing proactive to change the current environment.
 
In the middle of a tough situation, a child instinctively seeks out his or her parents or some other member of the family for help and comfort.  But what about us?  Well, more often than not, we tend to worry.
 
Worry is a negative response and does little – other than to focus our attention on the problem causing our worry – to help us overcome the problem.  Prayer, on the other hand, is a positive and calming response that draws us back into God’s family and allows us to focus on God our Father.  It helps calm our inner storm.  In the midst of those storms we shouldn’t be worrying, but instead we should be praying, a discipline recommended by none other than Jesus Christ.  And at the very outset of prayer, it will bring us to place of peace.
 
Jesus tells us to pray in those moments of need for ourselves and others:
When you pray… (Matthew 6:5)
But when you pray … (Matthew 6:6)
One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. (Luke 18:1)
 
Throughout Scripture God makes it abundantly clear to us that we are to pray, to devote ourselves to prayer, to pray without ceasing, to pray continually, and to pray boldly with the God who loves us.  Jesus prayed continually to His Father: “Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer” (Luke 5:16).
 
Then why don’t we pray as consistently and fervently as we should to our Father?  Maybe we don’t believe anything will happen – our prayers won’t result in the answers we seek.  Maybe it’s not a habit we have developed, and therefore when the opportunity arises for a time of prayer, it is not a default for us – so we turn to worry before we even know all we need to know.
 
Let me suggest that the next time something occurs and you sense worry taking over, turn to God and let Him draw you back into the center of the family.  Turn whatever you’re going through to a sense of peace by praying – you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

  

 

Excerpt from The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge 

by Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker