Former Lemuel Soccer Team Player is now a Theology Student!

This is a picture of Rich and Thony Amady, one of the original players on the Lemuel soccer team which started back in 2001.

He is now taking courses at the Evangelical Seminary of Port-au-Prince and hopes to become a pastor someday.

This summer he may do an internship with Ambassadors Football Haiti and work at some summer camps we hope to organize during the World Cup.

As John says in 1 John 1:4 "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth."

Update on Tournaments and Trainings

It has been a busy week of ministry for AFH.

The week started with an evangelistic Futsal tournament in Gonaives from February 27 to March 1 with 8 teams participating. Each player in the tournament received a New Testament in Creole so he can prepare for a Bible contest we will run in conjunction with our the AFH school futsal tournament we hope to start in October. In addition 5 people indicated they trusted in Christ and Lucasse, one of our staff, got to have a spiritual conversation with a young man who described himself as a “gangster”.

Then Rochenel and Lucasse travelled up north to the town of Jean Rabel to do a training seminar with our coaches and chaplains from 16 teams. The chaplains received New Testaments in Creole for their players and will start reading the 4 Gospels with them in preparation for the Bible contest starting in October. The coaches learned more about Futsal and ministering to their players.

From March 4-6 Lucasse and Rochenel taught a seminar inPort-de-Paix they were joined by Sylvain Nelson, who is now Pastor of a large church in Gros Mornes. Pastor Sylvain taught the chaplains while Lucasse and Rochenel taught the coaches of 16 teams from the area.
The last tournament of the week is March 7-9 in Gros Mornes with 4 teams. This is the first tournament ever in this town, and it has generated a lot of enthusiasm.

This same weekend there is also a tournament in Verrettes with 4 teams. Please pray that many will hear the Gospel.

Get this Kid off my back!

Today I visited with one of our AFH leaders named Fritz who was given a goat last fall. His goat had twins - a brown one and a white one - a boy and a girl. Guess which sex is standing on his mother's back?

Fritz has done a great job raising his goat and even has several of his own. He started out with 2 females and now he has 6 goats total!

Sad News, but there is always hope in Jesus!

This week has also been a week of some very sad news:

One of our AFH leaders who was active on the Regional Committee in Gonaives died suddenly this week leaving his wife with 5 young children to care for. His name is Belguens Ezavier and he was in his 40’s and just fell ill one morning and by the afternoon he had died. We are grateful that he is a Christian and we will see him again someday in heaven.

The second sad news is that my 53 year old cousin, Bruce, has inoperable Pancreatic cancer and may have less than a year to live. Pancreatic cancer is hard to detect and by the time they discovered it, it had already spread to the liver and other places. His Doctor is going to try chemotherapy and perhaps some other treatment that may help. Carol and I will be in PA from June to August and hope to spend some time with him then. Please pray for him and his 2 brothers and sister as they go through this trial together.

God has a way of helping us and comforting us in our sadness. Today I visited a bed-ridden 80 year old woman and had a chance to pray for her health. She reminded me of my own Mother who is going to be 80 years old on March 15th and is not in good health. In the same house was a young woman named Eliana, the same name as a the daughter of a good friend of mine. She is suffering from cancer, just like my cousin Bruce. So I prayed for her and Bruce at the same time. Then I had the simple joy of seeing some of the fruits of our goat project and holding one of the kids born by a female given to one of our leaders.