WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.319 Welcome to the Awakening Church podcast. 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:07.040 We pray this message encourages you and provides the hope and light of Jesus Christ. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:08.640 Thanks for tuning in. 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.879 You guys, this is Jean Jean and Christy Mont Premier. 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:24.559 Will you welcome them? 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:38.320 If you have been um around Awakening for a while, then you know their names and you know our dear partnership with them and with their ministry in Haiti. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:40.719 If you're new to us, you might not know. 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:49.439 So I want to just paint a little picture of them, and then we just have the great joy of hearing from them for the next half an hour of just the amazing and powerful things that the Lord is doing in Haiti. 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.159 Um and first service was powerful, and I know the service is gonna be the same, so it's very exciting. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:01:00.560 But so Awakening's been a church for a little over nine years, and before that, we were a college ministry at Westgate Church. 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:11.439 And the Mum Premieres were partners in ministry with at Westgate, and so even when we were just a college ministry back in the day, we had a sweet relationship with them, and we've grown in that relationship as our church has grown, which has been sweet. 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:13.680 We've had the opportunity to send four or five. 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.319 We weren't sure if it was four or five trips to them. 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:23.599 It's one of the two of people from our church that have got to go down through the years, and um, we've partnered with them in so many sweet ways. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:30.480 Our kids have done um art collection to mail down to them of art supplies and wrote letters to kiddos down there. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:37.840 And I know even this year in this tent, we have paused our services to pray for them and to pray for their ministry and to pray for their country. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.719 Um, and because we uh believe that where our treasure is, our heart is also right. 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.400 We've also had the opportunity to financially partner with them through the years. 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:52.879 And I asked John Obermeyer, who oversees our finances, to pull up some numbers for me this week of what that's looked like through the years. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:58.480 Um, and and he found that we've given$660,000 through the years. 00:01:58.640 --> 00:01:59.599 Isn't that cool? 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:00.480 I know. 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:02.799 And church, I want to be really clear. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:08.000 When I say that, I don't say that like, yay, rah-rah us, but that that's not the motivation behind it at all. 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:13.280 It's the motivation of that we believe we serve a God who is extravagantly generous. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.479 And so as a church, we are extravagantly generous. 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.719 We want to give greatly. 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:22.479 And so that money comes from your tithes, it comes from your offerings. 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.840 Um, and we're able to partner in a place that otherwise we wouldn't be able to. 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:41.199 And I was sharing with them this morning, like there are times for me, I went to Haiti when I was 18 and um got to see your beautiful country and got to hold a sweet little boy on my lap who was three at the time, and then got to go on and sponsor him through the organization he was a part of until he aged out, which was so sweet. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:47.759 But when I hear what's going on in Haiti in the news, whether it's earthquakes or hurricanes or your president being assassinated, I mean, just so much. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.039 My heart breaks. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.439 Um, and sometimes I just feel really paralyzed. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:56.400 You guys know that feeling when you watch the news of what's going on in the world, and you just feel like, what can what can I even do? 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.360 Like, what's what's our what can what are we called to do? 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.080 And it is such a gift that for our church, we can reach out and say, All right, Christy, what what can we do? 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:09.360 And she says, Hey, we're gonna, we're putting, we're gonna try to put 10 doctors on a plane and we need some finances for that. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:12.960 And we can think, yeah, we can do that, we can partner with that, and we can pray for that. 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:14.879 So it's a very sweet partnership. 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:16.240 So welcome you guys. 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:17.199 We're so glad you're here. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:18.400 So here's where we're gonna start. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.159 For those of you that don't know the mom premieres, um, how did how did this beautiful marriage start? 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:25.599 How did this ministry start? 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.280 You wanna give us the backstory? 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:34.960 We try to tell people's e-harmony, but they don't really believe in this, which is true because we've been married 25 years, so you know, it's before that. 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.479 Um I'm uh I'm I am so glad to be here, guys. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:46.479 I just have to say this before we start our story is that those songs were so, so good because it talks about how good our God is. 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:52.159 And I hope and I pray that what you hear is that you'll hear how God has been good. 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:57.360 Um, it has been hard all around the world, it's been difficult in Haiti. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.800 Um, they have caught, they haven't caught much breaks at all. 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:05.680 Many, many bad things are happening there, but God is good through it all, and God is working through it all. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:07.439 So I hope you hear that story. 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:17.279 Um, I'm an Iowa farm girl, so I was uh graduated from college and I was doing an internship, and the internship sent me overseas for three months. 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.680 But that three months was back in 1996. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:23.519 So, yes, that that turned out to be a little longer than three months. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.879 Um, I went down there and my eyes were open. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:33.839 I had been a Christian beforehand, but it was in Haiti where God said, I want you, I want all of you. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:39.759 And that's when I could give my, that's where I found I could what God really wanted was all of me. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:41.279 So I can see all of him. 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:50.399 So I stayed in Haiti and I got a grant, and I was working with women in in agriculture and nutrition and health, and then I met this guy. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.040 Um, that was a very unexpected surprise, a very good surprise. 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:01.839 And uh, long story short, um, we got married and we went back to the states for schooling. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.959 I went to get more uh courses in nursing. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.639 He went to go to seminary. 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:19.439 We had two little girls as well, and all of our Haitian friends uh said, Oh, wow, John John, he got himself an American wife, he's back in the States now, he's never coming back. 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:25.279 Um, the the sad story is that many, many Haitians, that is the goal. 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:33.920 The goal is to get out of the country, the goal is to leave how hard it is, how difficult it is in the country is and go somewhere else. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:45.680 But for John Jen and I, all through those times when we were in seminary and and everything, and enjoying, enjoying the hot showers, enjoying electricity, um, enjoying hamburgers. 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.360 I married this, I married this man who's 135 pounds. 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.279 I have the pictures to prove it. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.800 But the good wife will do it too, yeah. 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:02.480 But all through that time, seriously, all during that time, God was saying you need to go back. 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.319 I don't know how many times I heard him say, um, he was so excited about it. 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:08.959 We was learning in seminary, and he said, I've got to go back. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:10.079 I've got to go back. 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.519 I've been blessed to be able to come here and get more schooling. 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.000 I want to go back to help people who haven't had that chance. 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.480 So it wasn't really a choice for us. 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:29.120 We went back when it was very difficult to go back because we tried the fundraising route and we tried getting pledges and everything, but we weren't sure what we were supposed to be doing down in Haiti. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:35.040 We just knew that we needed to go back to Haiti and that we wanted to work alongside whatever God was doing. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:42.160 So when we went back, we went back with our girls only two years old and six years old, and we had no pledges. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.560 Uh, we had no supporting churches behind us. 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:50.800 We had three months of money to cover our food and everything that my mom had generously provided for us. 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.360 We also felt called to go back to John's hometown, his own community. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.199 That sounds good, right? 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:08.240 Uh, except for his hometown was a place where there was no running water, there was no electricity, there was no communication, so no phone calls back home, no emails or anything like that. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:14.000 Uh, the roads were so bad that going 45 miles would take four and a half hours to go. 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.240 And even worse than that, that was hard. 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.800 It's hard, especially when you have little girls and everything. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.800 But it was even worse is that area was full of people worshiping voodoo. 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:30.079 You might have here, you might hear voodoo in movies, you might hear voodoo in this in restaurants, you hear about zombie burgers and all that stuff and everything. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:35.199 But the reality of voodoo is that it's a it's a religion worshiping Satan. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.560 It's people lost in fear, in darkness. 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.319 It's Satan saying, worship these evil spirits. 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:45.120 If you don't, you will be harmed. 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.839 But if you do, I'll give you, I'll give you power. 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:53.759 It's it's it's a it's it's hard to see people believing those lies. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:55.600 Satan is the father of lies. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:03.920 And when you're in that kind of religion and that's what you knew all your life, you you don't advance, you don't go forward at all. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.319 So that's what we were going back to. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:11.600 That place where people were not as a community, they were, it was, it was harmful. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.120 We would hear the Buddha drums every single night. 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:20.480 And we'd hear, we'd see people, um, our neighbors and not helping each other. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:22.959 But God had this huge plan. 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:24.480 I don't know if the slide's up. 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.959 If you saw the slide beforehand where it shows what it looked like when we first got there, John is a um um community. 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:32.799 It wasn't even, it's not even on the map. 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:34.000 Even today, it's not on the map. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:39.440 But if you see the next slide, you see what God had in mind to do in that community. 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:40.559 It's cool. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.080 You can see all these different buildings. 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:51.919 There's a university, there's a school there, there's agriculture programs, there's just a ton of things going on there in this little third world country that was happened in only 15 years. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:09:09.519 What I can't show on the slide that I want this to kind of represent is how this wouldn't have been possible if we would just gone down there with our own plans and with our own budget and everything and just started building schools that wouldn't have worked because hearts weren't changed at first. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.320 People worshiping voodoo, worshiping Satan, don't care about the community. 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.080 They don't care about the country, they don't care about their fellow man. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.080 They do whatever is good for themselves. 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.399 This kind of development wouldn't have happened. 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.720 But God had a plan for this little area. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:32.559 We don't know why he chose John Jennifer to be part of it, um, except for the Bible says very clearly he chooses the weak and the foolish. 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:34.480 And that's what we feel like. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:38.000 But God had a plan, and we love telling about it. 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:50.480 United Christians International is what we named our organization, and we base it on three main principles: teaching the words of God, equipping national leadership, and United Christians around the world. 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:55.759 Teaching the words of God over and over, we have seen God's words changing people's lives. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:57.360 Their hearts are changed. 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:08.639 We love to talk, but you probably will forget what we said pretty soon and everything, because our words don't change anything except for when we base it on God's words that don't change and that change people's lives. 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:17.039 We do this through different church ministries, um, evangelism, a lot, especially evangelism into the voodoo, uh, discipleship. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:24.080 We do it through church planting, we have a theological department, our university, many different ways that we do that. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.000 We're trying to get out the words. 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.559 Because even more, even more than helping a starving child. 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.480 We have starving children in Haiti. 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:38.240 But even more than that is teaching them who God is and how they how God loves them so much. 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:39.919 That's what we want to tell about. 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:44.480 We didn't plan on going down there to reach out to the voodoo community per se. 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:52.480 We wanted to use John Jen's knowledge in seminary and help work alongside other churches that were run by lay pastors, and we still do that. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:58.159 But very quickly on in our ministry, God showed us that He wanted us to do, go into the voodoo community as well. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:05.360 Yeah, I want to say good morning to you all because you are part of that story, God's story. 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:12.799 Because, like Christie said, being in America, why go to where you come from, where we came from? 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:17.279 And you got Hatch Hour and Hamburgers and uh all of those things. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:22.879 But God keep on calling us to go because I knew what we left behind. 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.039 It's a community where people worshiping Satan, basically. 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:34.159 And as God opened my eyes, and I wanted to see, tell those people, He's about to open your eyes too. 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:50.960 And uh, while we were there in the beginning of that ministry, there was a huge voodoo ceremony, and I came, uh we came to help that people, but it's uh to know God who God is, and that night God grabbed my heart and said, You gotta go out there and tell those people. 00:11:51.440 --> 00:12:00.559 And it was midnight, a huge voodoo ceremony, more than 50 men worshipping, being drunk, and all of those things. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.279 But I I said, I gotta tell them. 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.879 Because when we were in the US, this is what I wanted to do. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:08.320 I gotta go there and tell them. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:13.360 And uh I went out there, and then there was uh people watching overnight, they said, Well, where are you going? 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.639 I said, I'm going to share the gospel with those people. 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.799 And he said, Do you know you can get killed? 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.679 And I said, Well, let us go. 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:25.679 But the under the guy, another uh watchman said, What on us? 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.039 It's more powerful than we started discussing that among us. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.320 And he said, Let's go, man. 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:32.000 Let's go and share the gospel. 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.039 And we went to that voodoo ceremony and started sharing with those guys. 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.360 And they they they give me five minutes and their time. 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.679 They said, Talk quick because you stop our ceremony here. 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:40.320 Talk quick. 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:48.480 And I read John 3, 16, as you know what that says, God so loved the world that He gives His only begotten Son. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:50.639 And I share with them about that verse. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:57.120 I said, Those who believe this is what Jesus promised, those who don't, this is what it is, uh uh, and clear card, this is what it is. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:02.720 I grew up with you guys, and then the master folded up the drums, everybody went home. 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.000 And the next morning, uh, the master came to the house. 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:10.480 If that is for me, you talk about it's that Jesus is for me too. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.799 And I said, Yeah, it's for all of us that believe. 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:16.639 And he gave his life to Christ. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:22.639 And that was the the way from thank you. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:27.279 And then that's what that's what when uh the voodoo uh started falling. 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:34.000 Now we have like over 30 some witch doctors worshiping in our church today. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.120 So they become Christians and their life change. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:41.440 Even that guy that killed my own dad when I was 13 years old, he's a Christian. 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.120 Did they sit on the front wall? 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.440 Whatever you want to do, he's called his and Miss Andre. 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:50.399 He said, Andre, we gotta we gotta uh go somewhere to uh do some evangelism too. 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:57.600 Andre is the first guy because he saw what God did, and then then so friendly. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:02.639 All of my family used to see if this saw Andrew somewhere, they went the other way. 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:05.600 But now Andre will like uh we greet each other. 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:07.120 This is the guy we hook it. 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:08.960 Happy morning and Sunday. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:10.159 So God is good. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.480 What we are doing, my friends, it's matter. 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.159 Keep on sharing that good news with the world. 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.799 There was no other way that world will be better. 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:22.399 There was no other way, not money, not anything else. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:23.279 It's Jesus. 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:26.000 This is the solution for this world problem. 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:26.960 And thank you. 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:27.919 Amen. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:29.279 That's amazing. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.399 What a story of reconciliation. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:37.200 It sometime will have to tell us the whole story of how the man who killed your father now worships in your church. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:38.960 That's just phenomenal and beautiful. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:44.000 Christy, will you give us, just paint for us a little picture of UCI right now in 2022? 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:45.600 What all does that include? 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:47.679 So we laid down the base, right? 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:54.559 The foundations laid um by the grace of God, by him leading us just a little bit at a time. 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:05.679 Um, when I was talking about you only had three months of support, you know, um, we only had three months of support, and God made it that way so that we would be to be depending on him and him alone. 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:10.159 We thought we'd be starting ministries down there to be run by Haitian nationals. 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.519 We would go back to the states, get jobs, fund it that way, find other people to fund it that way. 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:23.279 But at every month for three years, God said, kept on saying, I have another, I have enough for you to stay for one more month. 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:27.679 Now that's a difficult place to be in if you think of it in human terms. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.559 We think I have two little girls, oh, my little 92-year-old, my little six-year-old, what am I gonna do for school? 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:33.519 What am I gonna do for them? 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:34.399 Are they gonna be okay? 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:36.399 Are we gonna find enough to food food to eat? 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:38.639 But God just kept on saying, one more month. 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:44.240 I have nothing, some somebody would would would generously give us something enough for us to stay for another month. 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.200 Another month again, for three years that way. 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:59.200 Just building in us a trust, a dependence, a firm belief that God is providing for us, which is really good because we were in a third world country, the poorest nation of the Western Hemisphere. 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:06.799 If we're gonna tell other people, if we're gonna tell everybody and preach, say God is Jehovah Jirah, he will provide, well, we better believe that ourselves. 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:08.159 We need to depend on that. 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:16.080 And we can say to the poorest person in the very primitive hut, God will provide for you. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:16.799 He will. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.000 So the base, the for foundation is laid. 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:30.399 Now we can start doing more development because people's hearts are changed, and now they want to work for their community, they want to have change for the better. 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:35.279 So we did the teaching the words of God, and we still do that throughout all the ministries. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:38.159 But now we're doing equipping national leadership. 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:44.080 We saw what a big deal it was when John Jim went back to Haiti and gave back to his own country. 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.399 We try to think of the early church. 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.639 What did God do for the early church through the apostles, through the disciples? 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:55.759 He built up the different churches in different areas through the local population. 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.600 So we try to do that too. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:58.960 We try to do that as much as possible. 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.080 We do that through education and training and development. 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:07.839 We have a uh school from preschool all the way to high school, 1,600 kids. 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.799 Remember, we went down there with no plans of this. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.319 We went down there with no support. 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:14.880 1,600 kids who come to our school. 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:25.440 We get to show them the basic curriculum, and we get to add um computers and arts and sports and music and all these different things, and we get to tell them about how God loves them. 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:34.079 I think I mean we're standing, we're sitting surrounded by a school system right here, and it just is exciting to see the hope in these little kids, right? 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:35.359 The next generation. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:40.799 And then God went even a step further and he said, I need you to do a Christian university. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:43.920 The earthquake hit in 2010, the big one came. 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.319 300,000 people perished. 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:53.359 Many of our young people had been in Port-au-Prince, the capital, to look for education and lost their lives there. 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.960 We felt very called that we need to go and do a university. 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.599 Now I say that, and it sounds so simple sometimes. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.240 I we felt we felt God calling us to do that. 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.720 But at the time, a university? 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:05.759 Are you kidding? 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:11.599 If they would if you would have told me that back in 2005, we would have never left the United States because there's no way. 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:12.960 I can't do that. 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.039 But that's exactly where God wants you to be. 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:17.839 God wants you to be where, no, you can't do it, but I can. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:18.799 I can. 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:22.160 So we're there's nothing again, there's nothing special here. 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:24.319 But God just kept on bringing good people. 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:26.079 We have a Christian university, you guys. 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:34.640 It started about the same time as awakening started as a church here, which is exciting because you know it was the same age group and young, many, many young adults. 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.960 And wow, it's just exciting to see that. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:51.759 Our vision, five-year, ten-year, fifty-year vision is not what Kirjan and Chrissy can do, but what how can we instill this vision of looking to see where God is working, give you good education and training, and give you that motivation. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:52.720 Give back. 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:53.759 Give back. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:59.200 You are you have talents, you are given what you're given, as the Bible says, to bless others. 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:06.319 So that's that's that's our that's what our um what what can hate how can Haiti be changed? 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:11.119 Many people say, you know, that uh Haiti is just is is has so many problems, how can it be changed? 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:14.000 We will never say billions of dollars. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:18.640 No, we will never say it's gonna start from the top down. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:28.640 We pray for our leaders, definitely, but we say one student at a time, one community at a time, God is gonna change things that way. 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.000 We love doing um equipping national leadership. 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.519 We see such hope there. 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:39.680 We also do United Christians that are national, or uniting Christians around the world is our third, our third um goal. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.559 And that's where we just feel that we don't do it by ourselves at all. 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:50.400 We don't um there's nothing possible without the prayers and support from you guys behind us. 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:54.000 We love having teams come down there, it's life-changing. 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:59.440 It's not about the money that's spent there or the work that even is done there, those are all good things. 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:03.519 It was all about seeing how God is working a different place. 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:12.240 We've seen lives change for people that go to Haiti, and we see people lives change in Haiti because of people that came and worshipped with them. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:14.319 So awesome. 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:25.599 And just give us a little overview of how is the ministry doing amongst so much tumultuous times, like with COVID, with hurricanes, with earthquakes, with so much political unrest. 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:34.960 Yeah, like uh you you you guys is on it too because the three the past two years, the world is upside down with COVID. 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:36.160 You don't know what to do. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:48.400 As in Haiti, we have all kinds of stuff happening, like earthquakes, uh, gangs, uh uh, you talk about like uh COVID and all of those things, assassination of the president and all of those things. 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:52.640 But you know, in the midst of those things, God is at work. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:54.720 God's still at work. 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:57.599 And I love that song this morning, God is good. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:10.000 And it is good all the time, even in the midst of those problems, because we see amongst all of those things, we see like uh now we graduate two um medical doctors, people. 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:12.799 Like uh, who are we to be able to do all of that? 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:22.160 Two groups of doctors out there, uh, even even in the midst of the earthquakes, we are the first responders to uh the uh the south of Haiti. 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.000 That school that we never knew all of that would be happening. 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:27.359 God is at work. 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:52.240 So by saying this, it's it's uh uh uh UCI is flourishing with like uh uh um the uh 1200 uh that medical school, the university, you've got 1200 students there, uh from uh from theology all the way to but they all are doing uh the same thing that we do now, teaching the house of God, equipping themselves to go out and to be united. 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:54.880 That's that's amazing to see what the Lord is doing. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:59.119 And uh we cannot take that for granted that uh we do anything special. 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:02.160 God is Is at work in the midst of all of those things. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:03.039 It's amazing. 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:04.960 And how about an update on your health? 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.319 We when we got word you're in the hospital, we prayed for you. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:08.960 How are you doing? 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:09.839 And what came from that? 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:11.519 Yeah, thank you for your prayers. 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:13.359 Uh, because of it's been amazing. 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:15.839 I'm I I'm great by the grace of God. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:21.920 Uh, I went to the hospital there and they do all of the checkup for me, but there was a sudden machine they don't have. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:28.400 And they said, if you can go to the US and maybe you'll find somebody that will help with all of the equipments there. 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:32.640 And then I went uh to uh Iowa and then they checked me out. 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:34.480 There was no blockage, no nothing. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:46.319 And uh uh actually the doctor there just sent a note to the uh the Haitian doctor said, You are doing a great job, keep on doing what you do, because what will put you on, that's the same thing that we should do here. 00:22:46.480 --> 00:23:05.039 And uh the thing is, I was talking about going to doing hospital ministries, being like uh send chaplains to those those places to help people and a lot of work, no time to do all of those uh things, but that that time, God just grabbed my heart to help those people. 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:07.279 Uh for five days of the hospital there. 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:16.640 I've I've been praying with people that close to die, those are dying and needed to become to the Christian, uh be uh to know Christ as the savior, some of them. 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:17.759 It's amazing. 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:26.000 And since then, I make another four or five trips to the hospital to help sick people because I feel like I needed to do that. 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:41.279 He was John Jane was in a ward, a big public ward, 60 beds in this public ward, because this hospital um was the best hospital in Haiti, but it was a it was a public, it was in the government hospital, so there was no private rooms. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.119 But God uses that, of course, right? 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:44.319 So I left him there. 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:51.279 I had couldn't stay overnight, and then I couldn't come back the next day because there was roadblocks and burning tires and everything like that. 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:55.759 So when I finally came back, I said, Junge, I'm gonna bring you some food, you know? 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.519 And and and he said, Yeah, bring me a meal, but bring 25 extra. 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:01.680 And I said, Oh, you're that hungry? 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:02.880 What's up with that, you know? 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:08.400 And I should have known better because that you don't meet this man without making him without being his friend. 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:15.440 And uh he had he had um just gotten such a just been such a blessing to so many around them. 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:25.359 Um the people in the hospital were looking for hope, they were looking for answers, they were they were hurting, and he had good words to tell them, and so God just uses even that in everything. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:26.319 So cool. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:29.920 Okay, I've heard a little bit about a new sports ministry, a new hospital. 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:31.519 Can you talk about those a little bit? 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:32.960 I'll talk about the sports ministry. 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:33.519 Awesome. 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:36.319 That's something near and dear, near and dear to my heart. 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:42.000 Um, yeah, so you go down, you go overseas, and you well, I shouldn't say overseas, you go into the ministry. 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.119 You go into the ministries, and maybe you have thoughts what you're gonna be doing. 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:47.119 And then God just opens up these other avenues. 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:48.000 I like volleyball. 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:54.400 I played and I played lots of sports and everything, and my girls were getting older, so I just started uh started teaching volleyball. 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:57.200 Well, no one else knew how to play volleyball, everybody knew how to play soccer. 00:24:57.519 --> 00:24:59.279 And so we started getting other people. 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:01.359 Well, God just wanted to use that. 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:10.240 We just I saw very, very early on that it was difficult to get youth and even children sometimes into the church building a lot of times. 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:27.200 It was hard to get them excited about if they were, especially if they were in the voodoo voodoo religion with their parents, hard to get them in the church, but invite them to a volleyball court, invite them to a basketball court or a football field, a soccer field, then then I could get a lot more youth out there. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:33.039 So this little this little love of mine, this love of volleyball, all of a sudden became a sports ministry. 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.000 But God has bigger plans than I we ever have. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:39.519 We are, did I did I mention how we're just a really remote area? 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:40.559 I think I've said that before. 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.799 We're just way out in the boondocks, right? 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:47.119 And we developed this program so that we started playing other teams. 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:58.000 And I had two young men that went into the national beach tournament, beach volleyball tournament, never had been on a sand volleyball court until they started playing in the in the in the championship. 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:01.039 And they won it all and went to Aruba to play. 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:03.519 I have six on six teams. 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:08.880 Um, oh, I have so many kiddos, all the way from eight years old all the way up to 20 years old. 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.119 And they were winning national tournaments. 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:20.319 And uh even this year, because of Port-au-Prince being so unstable and so violent so violent, we they can't do the national tournament there. 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:22.880 So they're gonna do the national tournament in my place. 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:28.640 I mean, we have cement courts, nothing underneath, and there's no no tents or anything like that, no gymnasium. 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:30.400 It's just outdoor in the hot sun. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:34.000 But I just kept on saying, we need to have this tournament. 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:35.519 They're coming in Easter. 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:36.880 They're coming on Easter and everything. 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:42.880 And there's one stipulation I said, I said, I would love to host this team, but if it's Easter, give me Easter morning. 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:48.640 Give me Easter morning that we have a service, a sunrise service, that we can praise the Lord for what he has done on Easter. 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:49.839 He is resurrected. 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:51.279 So they said sure. 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:55.119 So I get hundreds and hundreds of volleyball players that are gonna have a chance. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.400 I'm gonna invite every single one of them. 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:59.839 I don't know if I can make it mandatory, but we're gonna sing loud enough that they will hear. 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.079 They will hear about what we believe and how God loves them. 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:05.759 So just great things. 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:07.119 That is so cool. 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:13.920 And then for the teaching hospital, because getting a med school, you need to have a place where people practice all the time. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:23.759 And then now we we we bus our kids to other hospitals like uh 14 miles away, or uh uh uh to be able to do their practice. 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:28.079 And then uh uh the health department of Haiti asks for us to do that. 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:30.400 Now we are building already. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:37.279 We have uh the all of our our um lab is already done, and we got uh uh all beds already there. 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:39.119 So God is at work again. 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:49.200 I don't know where all of those seems come come from, came from, but they are coming and uh seeing seeing uh yeah, so God is 2005. 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:55.680 Nothing there, nothing there, food, no no infrastructure whatsoever. 00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:59.759 And 15 years later, here we have a university with a clinic. 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:03.039 We already have a clinic and dental clinic, now a teaching hospital. 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:08.000 If if we can't say God is good after that, I don't know when we can say it. 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:09.200 God is so good. 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:11.119 Yeah, amen, amen. 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:13.519 Church, isn't it so cool to hear all these stories? 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:14.720 Isn't it encouraging? 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:15.440 Yeah. 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:32.799 There's a part of me that feels like it's so cool to hear what God's doing over there, and then I look at where we live in the Silicon Valley and I look at our lives and what we value and how we spend our time and the oppression here, the spiritual oppression here. 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:35.839 And I just wonder, Pastor Jean-Jean, can you can you speak to us? 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.680 What's your what would be your word to us? 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:39.119 How can we receive? 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.640 Because we don't want to just hear, yes, we want to rejoice in what the Lord is doing. 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.359 We're so grateful to be partners, but we want to be pastored by you. 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:47.440 What is the word you'd have for our church today? 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:54.480 Yeah, um, I I thank you again, because people are crying all over that worldwide. 00:28:54.960 --> 00:29:08.799 Even if you don't see my neighbor, because I knew when I was uh uh where I grew up, all of the Avoodoo situation, all of the uh drugs that people are taking, all of those things, they are crying inside. 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:10.720 They are looking for the answer. 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.079 They are looking to find something to help them. 00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:19.519 And then we we we got one thing we in our ministry we gotta share with you today. 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:26.400 It's uh uh it's uh just to pray, to care, and to share. 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:35.680 So, how we go about doing those things, you know, like I said before, people they won't tell you the whole story. 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:40.000 Probably they they deny what's going on with them. 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.240 And we all in denial sometimes. 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:58.480 Myself can be in denial, but that's the one thing we do, we start praying for our community, we pray for our neighbor, we pray for them uh seriously, and then when you we start praying and praying for them, you let them know that you are praying. 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:05.039 And then you know what will be happening when you let that happen, they will know that you care so much. 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:10.240 And sometimes those things happen when people start releasing themselves into your hand. 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.519 Like I talked to you about the guy that killed my own dad. 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:15.519 Well, we start praying for that guy. 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:16.559 It wasn't an easy thing. 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:18.799 If that guy killed your dad, why pray for him? 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:28.480 But when that Lord keep on pressing on your heart to do those things and to keep on praying and pray and let that guy know, hey, I'm praying for you. 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:32.720 Because if we don't care, people know that we don't care. 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:40.720 And then this is why Jesus gave himself, because he cares so much about this worldwide to be able to uh uh bring this world into it. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.319 He cares so much, he gave himself uh uh to this world. 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:50.720 And then while caring, most people will say, Why do you care about me? 00:30:51.200 --> 00:31:04.880 And when City, that like uh Iowa, there was a guy that was there, there was a huge snow there, and um our pastor uh were praying for that guy, and then he could not start his track and then start praying for that track to start and things like that. 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:17.359 And then that guy said, Well, I never go to church, and you why you care about praying for my track that not start, and it's that the conversation started right there, and then then you know what will be happening that next. 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:35.839 So you open that door to share Christ's love to other people, and we had no other calling in our lives is to be able to uh to uh tell people what Jesus did for us, our testimonies and all of those things, and then when people see that, like what else? 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.839 My community uh in Kayema, where you see Aizar, is changing, and people travel miles to come. 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:43.440 And then why is that? 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:46.079 All of those voodoo doctors, why? 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:52.480 But then 2 Corinthians 4, 4, Paul talks about the God of this world, blinded people so that they don't see. 00:31:52.880 --> 00:32:06.240 But the only way the whole that they will see Jesus is by praying for them, praying that God opened this time, that the His timing, not on our timing, but we'll keep on praying, keep on praying, and then you care. 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:13.599 For example, like if if your neighbor um uh this afternoon is Super Bowl, yeah, I don't know. 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:15.759 Everybody wants to watch this. 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:16.799 I'm going to watch. 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:19.599 Hey, there were some people that stay in the home. 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:24.160 They invite them to, hey, let's go do that Super Bowl together. 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:30.160 And then if you find out this is where friends started, and then this is what Jesus wants us to do. 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:36.640 By that well, for example, with that Samaritan lady, he didn't come and say, Hey, I'm Jesus, so I come to do all of those things. 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:42.960 But they start talking, and that conversation started there, and then here we are. 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:48.000 That lady became a missionary to go back and tell everybody, look at what Jesus did. 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:54.960 So, my things for you this morning is to pray, is to care, and then to share. 00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:59.440 I know you are doing that all the time, but can we say it together, my friend? 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:03.359 It's prayer, care, and share. 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:06.559 Simple enough. 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:07.920 May God bless you. 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:09.920 Oh, beloved, amen. 00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:12.720 So good. 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:30.480 Okay, awakening, it's time for you to grab your bulletins and your pins or grab your phone to your note section because we're gonna ask Jean-Jean and Christy to share some prayer requests with us so that we can be praying for them because we pray for them, we pray for their ministry, and we want to be faithful to that. 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:37.279 So grab those things, and I'm gonna ask you guys to share with us you individually, personally, your family, the ministry. 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:41.279 What are the ways that we can be praying that is most influential right now? 00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:49.200 Yeah, um, I got something that in our hearts for the young people, like Christian talk about uh uh young people of Haiti. 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:58.799 Now they are believing in some lies of their enemies, like in Port Open Say, uh, some young people will go to a witch doctor and say, Well, can you make me bulletproof? 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:06.720 You know, bulletproof is just that you cannot be a bulletproof, but they brainwash those people, like ISIS, for example, brainwash them. 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:08.639 Hey, I can make you bullet proof. 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:15.920 And then finally, that uh that guy uh uh with his gun against the policeman, the other policeman shoot him dead, he's dead. 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:19.039 And then they brainwash those people, they can do that. 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:29.679 So help us pray that the Lord will open the hearts of the young people because the young people I really believe is the hated tomorrow or the wall tomorrow. 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:38.239 Uh so help us to pray on that so we can reach out there to them and their hearts can be open for the gospel. 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:44.239 So yeah, so many of our I see, because I work with young people a lot. 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:55.599 I see a lot of times young people are are choosing to resolve any kind of conflict, any kind of disagreement, any kind of problem with violence now. 00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:58.320 Um not not even thinking that. 00:34:58.400 --> 00:34:59.840 Let's just sit down and talk. 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:11.280 Let's just sit down and resolve things face to face, talking rationally, talking lovingly, but instead going straight to protests, strikes, violence, and then that. 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:13.599 That's what they're seeing on the news in Haiti. 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.840 That's what they're seeing, how their government is handling things. 00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:17.920 So yes, would love prayer for that. 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:27.440 I would love for you guys to, when you think of Haiti, um most people when they think of Haiti think of uh the poorest country in the nation and it's in the Western hemisphere. 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.400 Um you know, the physical the material poverty. 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.079 I would like you guys to think about the spiritual poverty that's there. 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.199 The spiritual poverty needs to be addressed. 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:43.280 We need to get people out of that darkness, out of out of voodoo and worshiping who God is. 00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:49.119 So many of them just need to know that God loves them, that God is an option for them too. 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:50.960 So I would love for you guys to pray about that. 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:56.639 Anytime you think you hear you're hating in the news, anytime you hear about the bad things happening, pray for that. 00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.519 We would love to have your prayers for our university. 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:03.039 Like we said, that's our that's our vision right there. 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:14.639 These university students um going out, being well trained, and being having a uh a passion to go back to their own communities and seeing how God is gonna use them. 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.280 It doesn't have to be a little mini UCI. 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:21.519 Um, it's gonna be whatever God wants them to do in the different areas. 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:23.199 Pray for the university students. 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:26.800 You guys have helped so much, so much with the university. 00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:31.920 The majority of the funds that you guys have sent have been sent has been helping that ministry. 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:37.920 Um our university only costs$1,800 per year compared to that to the U.S. 00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:38.559 colleges. 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.199 I have one in college and one that graduated. 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:48.320 Yes, it's it's uh not very much in comparison, but there's so many in Haiti that that is insurmountable for them. 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:54.960 They come from that mud hut, they come from that thatched roof, and they need to be educated. 00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:59.920 They need to be the ones going out with good education that can make a difference in their country. 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:03.280 So your scholarships are helping us do that one student at a time. 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:11.679 And we have so many stories, so many stories of what has happened when that when someone I was given a chance, given a chance to get the education. 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:14.800 We'd love to have your prayers for the teaching hospital. 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:17.679 That's a big thing, a big, big thing. 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.960 13 phases if we if God wants us to do that. 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:25.280 If he wants us to do just one, we're finishing up the phase one, we're good with phase one. 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:28.559 If he wants us to do 13, okay, Lord, you better lead us. 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.639 So we don't because that's what's needed. 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:33.599 So we just pray, we just appreciate your prayers for everything, guys. 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:34.480 I love it. 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:35.440 And what about personally? 00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.920 How long are you in the States and how can we pray for you? 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:46.239 Uh we uh we'll be going back to the end of uh this month because the hate uh the US board is uh uh we'd got a wee treat. 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:53.360 So we'll talk about that vision for the next couple uh years or for uh what's coming up. 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:57.679 And uh yeah, so end of February we'll be going back. 00:37:58.880 --> 00:37:59.119 Awesome. 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:05.280 And they were sharing with us in first service that COVID has not hit Haiti really hard, um, and that there's been a blessing in that. 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.639 So, y'all, let's pray protection over their physical bodies while they're here. 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.760 Because we want them to stay healthy and be able to complete the the whole of their trip, which is awesome. 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:18.960 I'm gonna invite Chris and the worship team to come on up and church, we're gonna have a time right now to just pray for them. 00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.760 I'm so proud of y'all watching you guys take notes and judge on your phone. 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:22.639 Thank you for that. 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:29.280 Um, you guys will be in our hearts and you'll be in our prayers, and you know on Easter morning we are gonna be thinking of all those volleyball players. 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:30.320 That is amazing. 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:31.360 Yeah, for sure. 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:37.199 So, church, I want to invite you to stand and reach out a hand. 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:46.960 Yeah, church, let's um if you're comfortable, uh close your eyes, bow your heads, and reach out your hands to the mom premieres here. 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:48.800 Let's look to the Lord now. 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:58.639 Oh, Heavenly Father, what a joy it is to receive um from this amazing couple. 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:05.280 Um, God, we praise you and thank you that your dream and your plan was so much bigger than theirs. 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:13.599 And we thank you, God, that we are witnesses, even though we're far away from them geographically, we are witnesses to your work. 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:15.679 We are witnesses to your power. 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:19.519 We are witnesses to what you can do when we submit our lives to you. 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:28.079 And so, Father, we submit these prayer requests knowing you are the caring God who protects and provides for his children. 00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.400 And we pray that over the Mont Premier's. 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:37.360 God, we pray against voodoo and the evil spiritualities that exist in that country. 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:48.639 And we pray, God, that through the power of Jesus and your cross, that you would rebuke Satan and his devices and you would use UCI as a beacon of light in a dark place. 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:53.119 God, we pray especially for the youth ministry and for the young people. 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:56.559 God, we pray that um we are a church all about the next generation. 00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:59.199 It's why we love the Montpelliers, they're all about the next generation. 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:04.639 God, would you capture generations of young people? 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:10.960 Would you, God, bring them into your kingdom of light and rescue them from the kingdom of darkness? 00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:15.199 And God, we pray that you would powerfully use UCI in that process. 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:21.440 God, we pray for the spiritual poverty that you would make it a spiritually rich nation. 00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:24.400 God, we see UCI as spiritually rich. 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:30.880 And so would you multiply the investments that they are making in the kingdom as they sow righteousness? 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.280 Would you they reap righteousness in that country? 00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:42.159 And would you multiply beyond our imagination what you can do, God, through the university, through the teaching hospital, through every effort that they are endeavoring in? 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.679 Would you bless it, God, and sustain this work, Jesus? 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:51.760 We pray that the university, the next generation, the teaching that's going on would multiply for generations to come. 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:54.239 We thank you for the work that they're doing. 00:40:54.400 --> 00:41:02.800 We bless them and commission them and ask you to encourage them supernaturally through the mighty power and the good work that you do. 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:04.000 We pray this in Christ's name. 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:05.280 All God's people said. 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:06.480 Amen. 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:07.360 Amen. 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:10.960 We hope you were blessed by this message. 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:15.519 Please subscribe to our podcast for access to every episode as they're uploaded. 00:41:15.679 --> 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