{"id":4290,"date":"2017-05-29T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2017-05-29T14:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:05:25","slug":"behind-enemy-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"“Behind Enemy Lines”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill recently wrote a letter to a friend\u00a0about the spiritual battle in Haiti and some of what JUST MERCY<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 has been doing. In it he said, “In a book called Peace Like A River, a father in a pitched battle with the enemy turns to his children and says,\u00a0“We and the world are at war my children. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves!” (Leif Enger)<\/em><\/p>\n

Here in Haiti the words of Paul have struck like a thunder bolt, \u00a0“For our fight is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places!”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Am I a missionary….? Perhaps a volunteer behind enemy lines!<\/em><\/p>\n

My mission….? To keep the commands of God and hold true to the testimony of His Son, the One True King and, with tears of humility, the One who claimed me as His brother!<\/em><\/p>\n

‘” We hold this treasure in earthen vessels “<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Tata with her shelf unit in front of her house<\/p><\/div>\n

So… an elderly woman who lives in a shack behind us, through prayer and deliverance from the evil of voodoo, a near death illness (we almost lost her to typhoid fever), and with shared life has given her life to Jesus!<\/em>\u00a0 (The voodoo talismans are gone from her house!!) \u00a0The walls of old mud, sand and gravel, and a little cement crumbled onto her bed each night! So we\u2019ve been working to make it better.<\/em> \u00a0(See pictures below the update.\u00a0The men in the carpenter shop also made her a shelf unit to put her things on and you have NO IDEA how\u00a0happy she was to have something to put her things on!)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Back in February a boy was brought to us with a terrible burn on his face. \u00a0We put B & W burn cream on him and prayed. \u00a0We left a big supply of it with his father and told him to keep it lubricated with the cream at all times. \u00a02 1\/2 weeks later, he looked like this!<\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These are the kinds of things I do…..as I remain a volunteer behind enemy lines!<\/em><\/p>\n

Just wanted to share a little about life here. Please interpret in the light and great heart of the One to who alone we owe our allegiance! – Bill”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bill had planned to return to Janou, the village adopted by Monett Community Church in February, but Haiti has been having so much rain that the trip was not possible as the trail has been constantly muddy and slick. \u00a0MCC has raised enough money \u00a0to repair many of the houses in Janou and they plan to send some folks to go back there with Bill at the end of Junel \u00a0Since he hasn’t been able to get up there to get a concete plan together, the trip may be more of a planning and observing time, hopefully taking a census of the village, but those needing houses and roofs will eventually get them, Lord willing!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Men in the wood shop with lumber sawed on the sawmill<\/p><\/div>\n

With all the rain, it was a good time to spend time in the wood shop with the guys building things, including Tata’s shelf unit! \u00a0It is a huge thing to provide men with jobs and also, working in the wood shop often affords opportunities for sharing with the men and encouraging them in the Lord.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Children with trees to plant<\/p><\/div>\n

The school JUST MERCY\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>supports in the mountains recently had a work day. \u00a0The students came and cleaned up the schoolyard. \u00a0They planted trees around the school and along the road leading up to it. \u00a0They were of all types, including food trees like orange trees, avocado trees, and some ornamentals. They then\u00a0enjoyed a meal together.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your prayers and support. \u00a0Please continue to pray for JUST MERCY<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0and the people we seek to serve in Haiti.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The road up to the school<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Rough cement walls that crumbled constantly onto Tata’s bed<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Milo working on a top coat of cement to coat the walls so they will not crumble.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The smooth finished walls!!<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill recently wrote a letter to a friend\u00a0about the spiritual battle in Haiti and some of what JUST MERCY\u00a0 has been doing. In it he said, “In a book called Peace Like A River, a father in a pitched battle with the enemy turns to his children and says,\u00a0“We and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4333,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}