Mission needs

Hello everyone. Our HLM school in Boucan will start on September 7th.  We pray that all of you and your families are well.  Our needs are as follows: we need to find support for the last month of my daughters so we can get her report card so she can use it when she goes to U.S. for school.  Also we are trying to find a place for Nalto to stay when we aren't here this next year. Please pray for that and also we need to send him to a preschool so he can get a start on his education.  Please pray now in our time of need. We will be coming to Texas in October.  We thank you for all you do.  God Bless you all

Everyone I am sorry about what I wrote yesterday.  This a partial retraction from what I wrote yesterday.  I said that I would be the executive director of HLM that was not true.  I misunderstood my Father when we were discussing HLM matters.  We are not abandoning or the work we do here we will comeback for 9 months and see where God leads.  The comments I wrote were written in a deep emotional state and were written to thesituation we are in in Haiti.  Please pray for us we really need them.  Take care and God Bless. Lance

Hello all of you out there.  It has been a tough month, so the board of Hope in the Light Ministry has decided that we need to return to the U.S.on October 8th.  So we can raise more funds for the organization and for our personal support.  This really bothers me I feel like we have given up on our life's work it is heart breaking to me.  But we will keep the faith to see what God will do.  He knows all of our needs before we ask him.  

I will be working with Pastor Rusty Maddox at Harbor View Chapel in Corpus Christi, TX.  I look forward to this job so that I maybe mentored and trained to see what a pastor in the U.S. really does.  I just really don't like abandoning my dream but it seems like all the doors here are closed.  I will still come down with teams, and also when we do activities.  

I will still have Haiti in my mind and will become the Executive Director for Hope in the Light Ministry.  I just pray that we can be able to run the organization as well as my father has run it for the last 7 years.  I just pray I can run it as well as he has.  My son Brian also is on the Autism spectrum and while we have been here we haven't really found anywhere to send him.  My daughter's school is expensive at a Christian school here in Haiti.  There have been so many things that have gone wrong since we got here that I really don't know what God is doing.  I will look forward to see what God is going to do.  

Please if you still have teams interested in coming then we will still facilitate those trips.  This does not mean that the mission will stop.  We have staff on the ground to be able to do the work here in Haiti.  I really don't know what God is doing.  We appreciate your support and we need it more then ever.  We need to build up support to do the work here in Haiti and you are a vital part to this work.  I just pray that many of you won't cut your support of the work here in Haiti.  Now we need it more then ever.  We need prayer to show us what direction the organization is going in.  And where we will be going in the future.  Hope in the Light Ministry will continue I will just be in a different role.  This is just a transitional period for all of us to get through.  Please we need prayer.  

Take Care and God Bless

Lance 

Update just got back to Haiti and Brian

Hello everyone I know it has been an eternity since I have written in my blog.  It has been exciting since we returned.  Angie is returning to school,  and I enjoyed being at church this past Sunday.  We just got the power turned on last night.  They power isn't on all the time here in Haiti,  but when it is saves us money from buying gas for the generator.  

In Haiti life can be hard and you can wonder where your next dollar is coming from.  All we can do is have faith to know that God will work things out.  Angie starts school on the 10th of August and we haven't had a chance to get her shirts for her school uniform or get her school supplies.  I just feel so helpless that I can't help my own family.  We know God will provide but we don't know how he is going to do it.  I can't say enough about our faithful supporters who have helped us throughout the year.  You are our lifeblood.  We can't do the work without you. 

Brian has had a recent diagnosis of being on the Autism spectrum.  Services are limited for Brian but when we were in Minnesota, we were able to get the names of two clinics. We found a clinic called St. Vincent's in Port Au Prince and also the Saint Esprit clinic in Croix des Bouquet.  Brian's diagnosis has been hard on our family.  The not knowing what to do is probably the hardest thing to live with.  But we know that Brian will be fine with help.  I know some of you may have children with special needs.  It is an experience that many people won't know about.  When your child has challenges it just makes you want to love them more.  You find out how sweet they are and appreciate the child that God has given you. Even though many people might think that it isn't a blessing.  They might think your child is incomplete or sick.  But that is not the truth.  You learn to love your child more.  They are much more dependent on you as parents.  But God knows that they are his child.  He will make a way for them to see them through their disability.  It can be painful but God can work through any problem that they will have.  We just need to put our trust in Him.  
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I pray you all know Christ and that you put him first in your life.  Thank you friends and family and supporters who read this.  We can't do this work without you.  Take Care and God Bless
Lance