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 

November and December happenings

This past month has been really hard.  First we had a group come in November from Valley Baptist Church in Lakeland, Minnesota, during the thanksgiving holiday. They helped fix the Land Rover.  Also the head pastor from Valley Baptist lead a pastor and leadership conference.  We were all very blessed by their presence.  Thank you Valley Baptist Church for all of your help.
It is a real blessing but hard work to take care of the team and to have transportation and to get my kids to school.  It just can be hard.  So then we take care of the team and I think okay now I will have time for a few days to get a break. 

Mona and Marylyss Lucker of Valley Baptist Church
at the Apparent Project.

 But then my adopted son Tipaul started to go to night school to be a mechanic.  So then I had to take the kids to school at 5:30 and would come back and try to relax while trying to help my wife with her seminary work.  So then a few days pass and I then I think "Okay now maybe I will get a break for the weekend".  Nope then we had a revival every night for a week.  It just can be trying on you when you are taking the kids then relax for an hour then get up then go to a revival every night.  The youth did a really great job doing the revival here.  

I preached on Tuesday night, Pastor Canes ( my associate pastor), and Pastor Clairmont were speakers during the week.  Also there was a powerful testimony by a man named Wilner about how the devil was trying to kill him.  It was a long testimony and I revealed to him that God has a call on his life to preach. I prayed for him along with my wife Mona, that he maybe delivered and know the promises he has with Christ.  That the sickness will never return in Jesus name.  We will go and evangelize the village of Boucan on December 27th.  This is the area that the mission site is located and where we want to start our orphanage in the near future.  

Leaders leading worship on the final day of the revival

I will resume the Men's group.  We haven't met for 3 weeks and I just haven't felt right about it.  I am glad that we can get started again to build up the men so we can have the future elders of the church, and also to build up leaders to be able to go out and tell others about Jesus.  If you would like to support our men's group please contact me by Facebook or email.  We need support of about 20 dollars a week to be able to have refreshment for our group.  This group is life changing, it encourages the men to come when we have refreshments.  It is nice to have a secure area where we can talk about what we are going through and where we would like to be.  

This past week an anonymous donor gave 200 dollars so a single mother could pay for her kids to go to school.  She asked me about a week ago if I could find someone to pay for her kids so that they don't kick her kids out of the school.  I am so thankful that God had moved to be able to help this family in need.  I know many of you say what can I do?  You think you can't really make a difference in anyone's life but this family was so thankful because they had no answer.  

The church enjoying the final day of the revival.  

Keep us in your prayers this hasn't been an easy Christmas this year.  My parents and family had sent us money this year to help and we are very thankful.  I always want my Christmas celebration to be perfect and I never seem to get it right.  We just had our dell give me a blue screen and my little aspire one laptop will need a screen and keyboard.  It just seems like the devil wants to attack us through what we have.  Our solar panels were accidentally broken during our revival because we hadn't found a place to put it.  Even though he does this God always has an answer.  Please remember to give this Christmas season and know that Jesus was the ultimate gift for your and your family.  God Bless you all, Merry Christmas and Happy New year. 

new church opportunities

Imagine going to a city that you have been to many times.  But then you go to the bad part of town and you look at where the poorer people live.  At first you might be afraid to go there.  But when you get there, you find out that you actually have a heart for the people of thisarea and you are determined to help them no matter what.  This is what happened to me today.

In an area called Juvernat me, Pastor Clairmont, and Pastor Enock, Ivisited a church that is basically dying.  The pastor no longer can take care of this parish anymore and has been hungry for 5 days. When Iheard this it almost made me cry.  We had given him a little bit of money because it touched our hearts to help him.  This is a place surrounded by buildings.  It reminds me of an area in Port Au Prince called Route St. Martin.  I couldn't help that area but this area maybe able to accomplish the vision God has given me.  You never know what God is going to do.  Many times we think we know what we want but we actually don't.  He knows what is bettter for us. We are also working on taking over a church in Boucan.  This is going to be a lot of work but we know God will help us accomplish it.

Through the leading of the Holy Spirit we are able to accomplish many things. We just need to be willing to do the work. I had been discouraged this past few months because we hadn't really been doing anything. But when we I decided to step out and trust God for the answer he did it.
We just need to do the work that he has called us to do. Keep the faith and step out and he will do the work that he called us to do.

Needs for HLM and future

This past week we received 72 boxes from Love a Child.  That was a real blessing. We gave food at a remote village in the mountains of Haiti in an area called Robin.  The families there are very desperate for anyone to help them because the government does not help this area at all.  We are praying that God will help us start a school and church in this area.  Keep praying that God will make a way and Jesus Christ will be glorified.  

We have been having spirit filled services here at our Hope in the Light Church.  It has been very encouraging to see the young people blossom through the truth of Jesus Christ.  We have started a men's group and it has been great.  Me as a pastor have been blessed greately to hear the men of the church and their needs.  It makes me feel less disconnected from them.  It helps me know that I am not alone in many of the problems that I have are the problems of many other men.  Jesus gets all of the glory because I don't deserve any credit for this group it is all God.  For all of you who are out there reading this please keep this group in your prayers God has been using me and the leaders of the group greatly.  To God ge the glory.

We are looking at some land in the area for our church. We would also like to have a school so that students in the area may have a chance to have a christian education.  It is vital to our church and to the children in the area.  The building is a need because some people will not come to our church because it is being held in our garage.  We know that God will make a way for us he always does.  I have the vision that God has given me but I need to be patient with him to be able to accomplish his vision and not my own.

School started this past week but many of the students did not come.  We are encouraged that they will come this week.  I pray the support can grow so that we maybe able to have a high school for all of the students in the area that don't have a chance to go to school or the money to go to school.  Thank you for all of your support and prayers.God Bless you all.

Lance

Needs and situations of a missionary

Hello everyone.  This is the Director of operations here in Haiti.  Things have been a little trying.  We got Angie enrolled at Quisqueya Christian School.  That was a chore, but through God's grace we have been able to get through it.  But that doesn't really mean that the devil hasn't been trying to attack us in every way possible.  We have had problems with our power, our food, and also our vehicles.  We just had our Land Rover breakdown today and barely got it back to our house.  Keep us in your prayers and we know that God will make away through this tough time.  Donald and Marjorie have received scholarships to go to TBI for the fall semester but we are unsure what to do.  We would love to have them go but I don't know what they will do after their 4 month I-20 runs out.  I am applying to two schools for them one is a need based college and the other is a liberal arts young men's college in the California desert.  But the only problem is that they won't get accepted until next year.  So we have a window from January to July or August.  Please pray that God will help us to know what he wants us to do.  Our school in Boucan will start in either September or October.  Take Care and God Bless you all.
Lance