ell we just got back to Haiti from visiting the US about two week ago, because my (Kyle) brother got married. Even though our trip was extremely exhausting for the entire Jones family, we had a really great time spending time with our family and friends and watching my brother and his new wife experience a wonderful moment in both of their lives.
Things are starting to look up for us here in Haiti, or at least this is what we think. In our previous posts we have written about all of our constant struggles with staying healthy and our constant other battles with adjusting in to a new house, new culture, and to a new ministry. I think now, though, we both feel that the tough season that we were going through is about over, and a new one is about to begin, and there is nothing more exciting than this.
As far as ministry is concerned here in Haiti, everything has been going great: the teaching, the ministering to our students, and the relationships with both students and parents are really beginning to blossom. I (Kyle) have been doing a discipleship group with several of my Bible College students for about two months now. We are using the Purpose Driven Life as a book to go through to help develop within these men and women a deep and personal relationship with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
As far as teaching is concerned, Lorraine is very happy to have back Allison (Mme.Lenny) to help her teach 2nd Grade. Allison and her husband Lenny have been in the US since Christmas, because they had a baby back in January. Lorraine and Allison do a great job teaching together, and so having Allison back is going to make things even better for the rest of the school year. For my Bible College classes, I am in the middle of finals week, and next week we begin a whole new set of classes that will go unto the very end of May. This is very exciting to me, but also a little nerve-racking because I add two new classes that I have never taught before, and so developing these classes is very tough especially in a week. Even though this process is tough, it is also very rewarding and I dare say fun, so please don’t feel sorry for me.
We do ask you all to please pray for us, but to also pray for our ministry and our students. Their are several students whom have recently experience some pretty serious medical problems who need a lot of prayer and their are other students who need a lot of prayer for God’s direction for their life. We would also like you to pray for Simprius and his family. For those of you who read our last newsletter, I did a special story on him in their. Simprius and his family are going through an extremely difficult time now and they have left our city. This has made us all very sad, because we all like them so much, but it is something that can only be solved by prayer. The enemy has obviously been ceaselessly attacking them because of the good work they were doing, and so they need a lot of prayers for peace, protection, provision, guidance, and much more.
As always we can’t thank you all enough for your love and support. Blessings!
It’s hard to judge and determine the level of impact than a person makes on other people. This has been especialy true for us being missionaries here in Haiti. Culture and all sorts of other factors come into play, which make it difficult to assess just what we have been able to do here, or at least from a relational perspective. And finding the balance between meeting one’s physical needs as well as spiritual needs is also quite difficult and, at times, frustrating. I mean sure we meet the spiritual needs of our students through a biblcal education (or at least we try with all of our hearts), but we don’t always have the chance to meet their physical needs …
