Hurricane Matthew

Hello everyone Haiti once again has had another disaster devastate the country.  Our school has been destroyed  It feels like our lives have been shattered.  I feel like much of my life's work the past few years has been taken from me.  It is just a sad day for all of us at Hope in the Light Ministry.  Please any of you that can help please use the link for my fund me page below.

You help is appreciated and I know God will bless you in all that you do.  God Bless you all here are a few picture also to show you the devastation.

New ideas and Thoughts about us and Haiti.

Hello everyone I know it has been a long time since I wrote a blog so I just thought I would let everyone what is happening.  My family have been back in Texas since last October.  Last summer our son Brian was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  We tried to treat it in Haiti but it was almost impossible.  Then we were asked to comeback by our organization. 

Brian has improved tremendously and God willing he will keep improving.  Things in Haiti are moving along nicely.  We are trying to work on a food program at our school.  We have also wanted to have groups come down to further the vision we have for Hope in the Light Ministry.  We are so thankful for all of our faithful board and supporters this past year.  Pray for our organization we are in transition and trying to figure out what God has for us. 

God has been speaking to me about helping Haitian students to be able to come to the U.S. and get a degree in order to help their future and the future of Haiti.  I have been thinking about a foundation or some sort of fund to be able to send potential students to the United States to study.  I do have some requirements that I will ask of them.  One would be faithful and active in your church, be able to speak english, and write english and the final this would be to attend a non denominational bible school for a year before transferring to a school of higher learning in whatever they may want to study in.  I has been on my heart to help Haitian students have a future and to help Hope in the Light further our vision in Haiti to help the Haitian people. 

Please pray for me on this venture nothing has happened because I don't have any funding or paperwork.  It is just an idea that I have been thinking about. 

Another thing about my family my daughter since she came back from camp has been on fire for God and I have very pleased in what God has done for us and our family.  I am working at a flight simulator ride at the World War II ship down here in Corpus Christi.  Doing this in order to make ends meet.  My family and I still have our hearts in Haiti and still trying to help those in need in Haiti.  Mona is still in contact with our organization in Haiti and works daily with everyone in Haiti to make sure that they work of Hope in the Light Ministry continues.  It has been so tough on us not being able to go to Haiti but we know that God will work everything out.  Also my wife is on her way to being a citizen.  We have filled out the paperwork we are just waiting on Homeland Security to let us know when she can come to her interview. 

We would like to thank all of your who support us and pray for us, we need them.  Right now things seem like they are all over the place for us but God is right here with us ready to lift us up when we are weak.  God Bless you all and I will try to write more often in the future. 

Our relocation from Haiti

Hello everyone I know I have been neglectful to all of you and I would like to say I am sorry.  I has been a tough 6 months.  My family and I relocated from Haiti in October.  We had been through much hardship while we were there.  I have dealt with loneliness and depression while I have been back from Haiti but with God I have the victory.  The whole difficulty began when our son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  It was devastating for us to find this news but we know that according to Romans 8:28 that God works all things for those who are called according to his purpose and we are called to do his work.  

When we left Haiti I had no idea what we were going to do with our lives or what direction we are going.  We finally were able to get our son Brian the help he needs.  That is just priceless.  Angie is doing well in 4th grade.  She ranked 3rd in the entire 4th grade for her spelling bee.  Mona has been helping with Brian while he is going to preschool for half day.  I am working as a substitute teacher at a district in our town of Portland, Texas.  

I tried to start my Doctorate degree but ran into some snags but I know God will work it out for me to finish this program.  Now many of you maybe asking well Lance when are you and your family going back to Haiti?  The truth is we don't know right now.  I am substituting to help support my family.  But it has been hard to get used to everything again but I am so happy that whatever I may suffer if my son gets better then it is all worth it.  I pray that many of you would understand my situation.  It wasn't easy for me and my family to leave the place we have served the past 8 years.  

It is hard to explain to people that your support is down and that your son has special needs.  You can't really tell everyone all the pain you feel in your heart for your family and for the mission that you left.  A work that you help start and has been your whole life for the past 8 years.  

Many people would ask me "When are you guys going back?" I know they didn't mean offense but it was hard for me to not think about Haiti and think that I let the people down in all that I had done for God.  

God willing I will be going to Haiti in July for two weeks please pray and contact me or my organization for information.  I will be going probably a few time throughout the year and hopefully we can get more groups to come down.  

I hope that this finds everyone well.  It has been hard for me to talk to anyone because I have been down and not feeling comfortable that my path is not clear right now.  Please pray for me and my family.  

You will be glad to know I am helping a Baptist church here in Corpus Christi and I preach about 2 times a month and teach a Sunday school class for the kids at our church.  Please pray for Hope in the Light Ministry and for our church in Haiti.  Pray for my family and the direction we should be going in.    God bless you all and I pray that Jesus will be made more real in your life.  

He is the only one that can change everything. 

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