Answered Prayer (AGAIN!)

Yesterday I received this email from Lynn Kennedy in West Africa:

Beloved,
Greetings in the Glorious Name of our Savior!!
Once again, and more and more frequently, our phone system has been down for a week!!
I would like us to pray about purchasing a satellite system which would provide for phone and internet service for keeping in touch for important ministry issues.
The cost of system and initial service for one year is between $5000-6000.
Annual renewal will be approx $1500.
I realize this is a HUGE outlay of money but the frustration of having ministry issues unresolved because of phone service and in addition the slow working of "dial-up" when phone system is working.....
Please join with us in prayer for the Lord to give us a Yes or a NO and if YES: HOW we will pay for the system!!


Thank you...
I am going to try and send this!
Hidden in the Provider,
Lynn
PS 50:10-15

I did some research on the satellite system and found one for $3,100.00 and contacted the manufacturer.


This is the email I received from them this morning:

Dear Jim Dotson,
Thank you for your inquiry.
We sell Explorer 500 for about 2.500. Unfortunately we are not able to donate.
Matt Alp (copied) can help you. He is a true believer in the Lord also.

BR/Morten Dysseholm

Then I received another email:

Dear Mr. Dotson,
I look forward to meeting you in Orlando. I am willing to help in any way [at least financially] with the phone, I'll wait for the decision on the phone. Look forward to learning more about the wind turbines also.


In Christ, Tim Fitzgibbon

God still answers prayer!!

Life In Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is known to be one of the safest third world countries. However, there is a wall around the mission house that we stay in while working in the capital city of Ouagadougou. The guard opens the gate for us so our truck can enter the grounds and then closes it when we are inside. He also helps us with anything we may be carrying and opens the door for us to enter the house. Before we go to bed, we would give him money to purchase fresh bread for us in the morning.

Every evening after dinner we would pile the leftovers on a plate and I would take it to him. He would say thank you and then put the plate down and run over to the door, open it for me and then go back to his post and eat dinner.

One day I noticed that the man had no shoes and each day wore the same clothes. He had a large tear in the left shoulder of his shirt. Not knowing if it was appropriate, I asked Lynn Kennedy if it would be alright if I gave him one of my shirts. She said that he would appreciate it. I found a shirt that I had not worn yet and gave it to him. After putting it on, he knocked on the door to show us how it looked on him and to say thank you.

We left the house one morning in a hurry to get to a meeting and forgot to put the four fresh loaves of bread away. In December, it's very dry in West Africa, and when we returned home that evening the bread was hard as a rock and we had to throw it in the trash. Later that evening, the guard knocked on the door and said that he saw the bread in the garbage and asked if it would be OK if he took it home to his family because they had no food to eat.

I'm not sure why God reminded me of this today or why He put it on my heart to write it down. I do know that He always provides for us and we should be very thankful for what we have. We should also be reminded that there are others that we can help, no matter the size of the gift.

Even four loaves of stale bread can be a blessing to a family....

I Just Received This Message From Haiti...

Dear Team,

it is our second day in Haiti and got email up thru a generator and a tower connect.....  all the mission guys are making fun of me with Sprint service, which did not work again, even though they told me it would..... so they are all iphoning it, sending pics, talking (ATT dropped all charges until March 1 in Haiti)   .........so i am thru complaining and grateful for a home, my family being alive and all the other important things in life.....

We have toured for two days and i guess i can say that the pics we have seen has done justice...but when you are up close and personal to seeing two story buildings that are one story and hear all the stories of where people were when the quake hit....it is mind boggling.... 

our team went to NEW MISSIONS today and met with Charlie DeTellis (Tim's brother and runs to mission in country).  Their area looks like a combat zone....  collasped buildings, Marines/Navy personnel all over the place......  Marines have served 200,000 people in 13 days.......   it is amazing to watch the military bring their landing carriers from the huge ships and drop them on the beach at New Missions...  helicopters dropping supplies, etc.......

I am still looking for a way to help the people.........you see all the needs, but absolutely no infrastructure to minister....  down every street......great people trying to survive...... nothing like TV is showing,, with riots, etc....out in the countryside about 25 miles from Port au Prince everything is civil and orderly......  met with many Haitian pastors and some of their people......most are under sheets tied to poles, a few of the displace have a plastic tarp and some were fortunate to have their place still standing, but afraid to stay....traffic is very busy in outlying areas but unbelievable in PaP.......it took us 2 hours to go about 15 miles yesterday thru PaP, after a 7 hr drive from Dom Republic to PaP. ......

another full day tomorrow (Thurs) and then back to the D.R. on Friday and back in Orlando about midnight  Sat....... thanks for your prayers...

lots of great Disaster Relief folks here in country, trying to figure out how/what volunteers will do...........be praying for them and for the actions our church will take....

we will see if this gets to you.......email went down 2 times while trying to write....

Bill Mitchell

Just Pray For One...

"Just pray for one" that's what Pastor David Uth said at the start of MissionsFest 2010. That's all we need to make a difference in the world, just one!

We prayed that weekend for one person to help us fund the solar project for the CSPS Clinic in Balembar, Burkina Faso. After the event we continued to pray and trust Him for what the sick needed in West Africa.

On our way to church on February 6th, I stopped at the mailbox and picked up the mail. There was a small envelope with a card inside. The note read, "this is for the solar panel in Africa, (the first of many)! God wants you to dream 'Big'! We serve a 'big God'~This is from Him! Praise the Lord".

Along with the note was a check for the entire portable solar power system that the clinic needs in Balembar.

With His blessing, we will be installing that system this spring. The first of many...

African Saying...

If you think that you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night in a closed room with a mosquito. - African Saying