CHOSEN '14-'15

Here they are! The next generation of CHOSEN CHILDREN!! $300 blesses your CHOSEN CHILD with a year of tuition at Bon Berger Christian Academy, books, exams, shoes and handmade custom fit uniform which are needed to attend school in Haiti. We are so excited to see this generation rise up and be educated~ they will change Haiti one mind at a time. We also receive donation drives for school supplies all year long so if you would like information and our list of needs please let us know! You can send a back pack for your child separately if you would like to! Please join with us and send your tax deductible donation to Paypal @ Empoweringhaitianmoms@gmail.com or mail your check to EHM P.O. Box 4142 Chesterfield, MO. 63006. You can make payments as you need or pay in full as long as its all completed by Aug 15th.You will get updates all year long with pictures, letters and hand crafted gifts from your child. (You'll have many invites to come meet them too!) Just scroll over the picture to learn the child's name and age and we'll fill you in on the rest after you've chosen! There are more children on the way as well! Blessings!!!

 

Live In The Moment

For the past couple days God has been telling me to “Just live in the moment. Don’t worry about 30 minutes from now, next week, next month… I am doing something every minute that you don’t want to miss.” I have been thinking of that and trying to only concentrate on the here and now and not worry so much about my daily plans being changed… a.k.a. stop being a control freak!

Monday April 9, 2014 I had the choice to do that or continue in my ways of schedule, schedule, schedule. I went to the feeding program like every Monday afternoon but after we were finished with our Romans 8 lesson and the food had all been eaten, Milene Jean Louis approached me to tell me that she just reached 6 months of being pregnant but for the last 3 days she had some bleeding. I am not a nurse and have never been 6 months pregnant BUT I do have the Holy Spirit inside of me that set off a warning. I actually listened, canceled my plans & since I knew an American doctor team was at the Pierre Payen Hospital nearby we rushed there and with urgency they put us right in for an ultrasound. This was the first ultrasound either of us had ever seen and unfortunately it will be the worse, there was no heartbeat. I had to tell Milene who is 31 with 3 living children that her soon to be 4^th was going to have to be delivered the next morning and it would not be alive. She threw her hands up in the air, almost like she was giving up or admitting defeat which brought tears to my eyes. This was her 4^th miscarriage. We hugged and began to cry together.

 

That night I told Fritznel that we HAD to get our pregnant women checked… the “what if” bug was flying around my ear… all the “what if’s” wecould have done and “what if” we could have saved a baby. Tuesday morning at 6 o’clock, Milene was induced and a precious baby boy’s body was delivered. 

 

On my normal “ministry work day” I went to Bo Lise and gathered all the pregnant women in our community. After getting the women registered, tested for AIDS (all NEGATIVE!!) and syphilis we began the waiting game. Waiting for the 1 ultra sound machine to come available. Waiting for Milene’s blood work, lab tests to be done & fluids administered. Waiting for the emergency patients to come and go while I prayed for the peace of God to flood them. Waiting with 6 friends who had never seen an ultra sound machine nor understood they COULD see the little human growing inside their bellies.

 

What took 6 hours because of emergencies in and out, one by one I brought the women in to see the life that God had entrusted them to steward and care for. The sweet Dr. Kim from Nabraska was patient, loving and very descriptive in telling me everything we could see on the computer screen so I could translate it to the proud mama’s. I had tears many times as I watched my friends take their 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd look at the baby they were carrying. They couldn’t get enough and couldn’t smile any more than they were. Little head, legs, waving hands, heart beats and little feet were clear and beautiful just as God’s love showering down on us that day. Best of all each mom was far enough along that we know the gender of all 6! There is only 1 princess coming to us this summer and 5 warriors coming to protect & serve. I can’t wait!

 

I keep thinking of how blessed I was to share these moments with these 6 friends and saddened when I remember that Milene wasn’t able to take her new baby home with her to meet his brother and sisters. It was tragic, unfair, unexplainable and unreal but God brings peace that surpasses all understanding. Through the loss of Baby Jean Louis we were alerted to bring prenatal awareness to a new level and we’re learning how to care for the mama’s in new ways that will prayerfully prevent another tragedy like this. I am overjoyed that 6 mama’s got a new experience and get to wonder “HOW CAN GOD DO THIS IN MY BODY?” God is truly amazing and “Works all things for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.” Romans 8:28

 

Please be in prayer for Milene, her children and the rest of the family & friends as we mourn and grieve this loss. Pray for Fritznel & I as we continue to live in the moment of everyday life without being worried about “what if’s” and “when this” and “when that”. Lord help us to “lose control” and just be.

 

We were placed here for such a time as this and I can honestly tell you… it’s all worth it.

 

A special thanks to Maureen Day for Heaven Born Ministries. She has a beautiful ministry for helping women cope with the loss of a baby and we were able to use it to help Milene. God’s people are a blessing!

http://www.heavenborn.com/







A City Within A City

EHM's goal for self sufficiency is on the top priority list. One thing we do NOT want is hand outs and the mentality it gives to the people of Haiti (and in America too). We are passionate about helping families rise above the statistics and not live day by day when most people are living under $2 a day.

Monese

 

We began phase 1 of the industry buy teaching the women what the Word of God says about integrity, money making and handling we also equipped them with basic knowledge of business ethics. The women attend our classes, participate in the feeding program for a long period of time and are prayerfully and carefully chosen to receive the loans.

 
Proverbs 11:1  "Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is His delight."

Gladys

Lisiane

Phase 2 happened December 1st thanks to a supporter of EHM.  We started empowering the women by investing a start up fee into a new small business. By becoming entrepreneurs they can sell high demand and non competitive items to the locals in the market and from their homes. The women are held accountable, still doing the business classes and our Ministry Manager Pierre is on site making sure the women are being held accountable, being encouraged and being good stewards of their gifts.


 

Denise

Investing in jobs for this community means more opportunities for Haiti, less dependency on others and more dependency on God! 

 

She obtains wool and flax, and she is pleased to work with her hands. Proverbs 31:13

 

Phase 3: Coming this May. Again, we are not into "hand outs" and that goes for this program as well. Each woman is required to pay back the full $130 to EHM so that we empower yet another woman who is ready to begin the road to sufficiency as well! This brings encouragement and motivation to a whole new level.... "When I do well, work hard and save... my sister/friend/cousin/daughter will get a job and have success too". God is taking what is one of the poorest, under educated and weakest communities in Montrouis and making it to be the "City on a Hill" which can not be hidden because of the light of Christ that shines even through their jobs!

 

If you'd like to support a mom by investing please contact us at Empoweringhaitianmoms@gmail.com or you can send a tax deductible donation to paypal with Empoweringhaitianmoms@gmail.com as well OR send to (Jobs in the memo)

Empowering Haitian Moms

P.O. Box 4142

                         Chesterfield, MO 63006.                       

Milene

Hermitte

 Know that 100% of your proceeds goes DIRECTLY to the mom who is selected and that they can start a small business for as little as $150 and up to $300.

 

"Commit your works to the LORD, and your plans will be established." Proverbs 16:3
 

 

 

 

Remain In The Vine

Exodus 17:11-12 says, "As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up-one on one side, one on the other- so that he hands remained steady till sunset."

Support -noun- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening.

 

 

I have been working on a Bible study by Beth Moore called "A Woman's Heart- God's Dwelling Place" and just finished a chapter called "The Gift of Support". Re read that... the GIFT  of support... because that is what support is. A gift.

 

I  believe that no one can do anything without support, or maybe they can but they can't do it well. These past years I had times of many challenges and trials but I have learned how to be flexible because God changed MY mind several times and I saw him do His will without me even asking or knowing he wanted it done! But I know I couldn't have done any of this without support of a few close friends... true God-friends. Since I accepted Christ he has given me several amazing friends who have walked with me through thick and thin, never given up on me and continue to be blessings in my life. Now, I want to tell you about some new gifts that I have received and what God is showing me through the team called Remain In The Vine.

 

The Lord spoke to Aaron about being a gift and hold the office of "service" for the priests of the Lord and I dare to believe that God has asked all of us to be that kind of gift to someone at sometime... who comes to your mind?  Who in your life needs you as a gift? What can you do  to BE a gift for a friend, spouse or even a stranger?

 

In Numbers 18 during a battle Moses needed his friends and didn't even know it, but Aaron & Hur had been sent along side him by the Lord.  Don't you love how Jesus knows our needs when we don't and he solves our problems before we even know we have them!  God sent Aaron and Hur up on that mountain top with Moses knowing that during a battle, he would need help and support. They probably went with him to watch the battle that Joshua was fighting  but little did they know they would be used in a mighty way and be apart of God's victory over the enemy. It was a simple act of holding his hands up to give him that little extra strength needed.

 

Isn't it interesting that no one could have won that battle on their own? The army needed Joshua, Joshua needed Moses, Moses needed Aaron & Hur and they all  needed the Lord. I can see the difference it has made on my walk, life and ministry by God sending me a few of my own Aaron and Hurs. "A friend loves at all times" Proverbs 17:17  Again, my past has a few great ones but this is specifically about a group of women who were hand wrapped gifts from God, who showed up last year with their hearts prepared to serve Haiti and like Aaron and Hur- I don't think they knew what their support would mean to the battle happening here in Haiti (and my life). They came with much needed supplies and tangible support but it was not the contents in those bags but the ones who were carrying them that was the true blessing and GIFT.

 

These women have since been daily holding me accountable, encouraging, praying and standing by my side holding up my hands when I feel like dropping them and giving up. It takes a true warrior to sacrifice their own self and rights to serve someone else. We laugh, cry and pray together. I am thankful for each one of them and that God loves to repeat History (His Story). I know I can not do this without my Aaron's and Hur's and none of us can do anything to impact Haiti (or America) without God's blessing.

 

1 John 4:11 "Dear Friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another."

 

So again I ask, who are you holding accountable, encouraging and praying with. Who is your Moses? Who are your Aarons and Hurs? What is the battle going on in someone else's life that you can be a support to? Loose yourself and serve someone today... get out of your comfort zone and be the gift God has designed you to be... I know I am looking forward to being someone's Aaron and someone's Hur. Every one of us is equipped for it.

 

P.S. I captured the picture of Brooke (orange Tshirt) last week worshipping in Haiti without her knowing (she will when she see this) but I was in tears watching her love for Christ come out in her adoration in a public area without caring who saw her. She truly is a blessing for me and I want to honor her with this picture. Thank you for holding me up.